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Details: Written by by BOTWC Staff; Published: 03 April 2023

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The institution has cultivated Black talent for more than 4 decades!

Details: Written by FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press; Published: 03 April 2023

Lawmakers active on TikTok -- all Democrats-- are a minority as most in Congress are in favor of limiting the app and forcing a sale to remove connections to China, or even banning it outright. Many are defending their presence on the platform, saying they have a responsibility as public officials to meet Americans where they are — and more than 150 million are on TikTok

Details: Written by MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press; Published: 02 April 2023

It's been more than seven years since the 2016 presidential campaign and Republicans are still trying to figure out how to run against Trump, a calculation that’s only become more complicated now that a Manhattan grand jury has indicted the former president. As the 2024 field takes shape, candidates and potential contenders are trying to heed lessons learned from 2016

Details: Written by REBECCA BOONE Associated Press; Published: 31 March 2023

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It seeks to restrict travel by creating the crime of “ abortion trafficking ” and would bar adults from obtaining abortion pills for a minor or “recruiting, harboring or transporting the pregnant minor” without the consent of the minor's parent or guardian.

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Details: Written by SHARON JOHNSON, REBECCA REYNOLDS and DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press; Published: 31 March 2023

Brig. Gen. John Lubas address the press in regards to the Black Hawk helicopter crash that occurred early Thursday morning, March 30, 2023, outside of Fort Campbell in Christian County, Ky. (Liam Kennedy/The Tennessean via AP).

Nondice Thurman, a spokesperson for Fort Campbell, said the deaths happened Wednesday night in southwestern Kentucky during a routine training mission.

Details: Written by MICHAEL R. SISAK, ERIC TUCKER, COLLEEN LONG and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press; Published: 30 March 2023

Adult film actress Stormy Daniels arrives for the opening of the adult entertainment fair Venus in Berlin, Oct. 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

The grand jury voted to indict Trump on charges involving payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to silence claims of an extramarital sexual encounter

Details: Written by by BOTWC Staff; Published: 29 March 2023

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While the history books have credited Carl Lewis, it's important to note that Tyus accomplished winning back to back Olympic gold medals two decades before Lewis. Furthermore, it would be nearly a century before any other athlete broke her record.

Details: Written by GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press; Published: 29 March 2023

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved selling the leading version of naloxone without a prescription, setting the overdose-reversing drug on course to become the first opioid treatment drug to be sold over the counter.

Details: Written by JANIE HAR Associated Press; Published: 29 March 2023

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It could cost California more than $800 billion to compensate Black residents for generations of over-policing, disproportionate incarceration and housing discrimination, economists have told a state panel considering reparations.

Details: Written by JESSICA DAMIANO Associated Press; Published: 28 March 2023

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Predicting the timing of peak bloom has been getting harder. In the 1920s, the average peak bloom was April 5. That moved up to March 31 in recent years, and the 2023 peak arrived yet a week earlier