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Despite racial reckoning, state efforts stall on reparations

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LOUISVILLE, Ky — During last summer’s reckoning over racial injustice, decades-long debates about whether to offer reparations to the descendants of slaves in the...

Average US price of gas jumps 2 cents per gallon to $2.96

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CAMARILLO, Calif. — The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline jumped 2 cents over the past two weeks, to $2.96 per gallon. ...

‘Mortal Kombat,’ ‘Demon Slayer’ lead improving box office

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NEW YORK — The weekend at movie theaters featured something not seen for a while: a genuine box-office battle. ...

Officers kill man in body armor who drove into LA police car

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LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police were investigating Sunday after officers shot and killed a man wearing body armor who drove his car into...

The Oscars bring back red carpet glam in whites and gold

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NEW YORK — Red carpet glam was back Sunday at the Oscars with Diane Warren and Leslie Odom Jr. kicking off the pandemic era's...

Virginia tenants fear they’ll be displaced by Amazon workers

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ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The Southern Towers apartment complex is a census tract unto itself, with more than 2,600 units, and a huge bastion of...

Awaiting census count, California ponders slow growth future

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In 1962, when California's population of more than 17 million surpassed New York's, Gov. Pat Brown celebrated by declaring a state...

1 verdict, then 6 police killings across America in 24 hours

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Even as the Derek Chauvin case was fresh in memory — the reading of the verdict in a Minneapolis courtroom, the shackling of the...

1 verdict, then 6 police killings across America in 24 hours

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Even as the Derek Chauvin case was fresh in memory — the reading of the verdict in a Minneapolis courtroom, the shackling of the...

Armenian Americans welcome Biden’s declaration of genocide

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LOS ANGELES — Armenian Americans welcomed the news Saturday that President Joe Biden formally declared the systematic killing and deportation of hundreds of thousands...