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With about 79% of the vote, Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick has been named as the winner of Florida's special election to replace the late U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings in Congress. But Republican Jason Mariner, who was trounced, refuses to concede and said he plans to sue.

The new federal indictment accusing Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby of lying on a COVID-19 loan application comes after a failed investigation partially rooted in racism that is desperate to make any charges stick, her defense attorney said.

White House Senior Advisor Cedric Richmond said Senators straddling the fence need to remember that voting rights are the bedrock of democracy.  

Houston County Sheriff's Deputy Paul Urhahn was only suspended and not immediately fired after calling Ahmaud Arbery's tragic killing "the death penalty" despite showing behavior that suggests he has an implicit bias against Black people.

Cannabis prevents Covid? According to a recent laboratory study, cannabis compounds prevented the virus that causes Covid-19 from penetrating healthy human cells. Read more details inside.

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Drew S. Clinton was arrested after a graduation party in western Illinois, during which he was accused of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl. Adams County Judge Robert Adrian found Clinton guilty of felony sexual assault but reversed the conviction rather than send him to prison.

The Amazon-owned supermarket chain Whole Foods is doubling down on its policy banning workers from wearing masks emblazoned with the phrase, "Black Lives Matter."

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31st District Judge Alexis G. Krot of Michigan berated 72-year-old Burhan Chowdhury, who suffers from cancer, and said she wanted to jail him because he was too weak to take care of the lawn in front of his home.

New details suggest an off-duty police officer who killed unarmed Black man Jason Walker in in Fayetteville, North Carolina, didn't need to use lethal force - or any force at all - even though his 911 call shows he was determined to use his gun.

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A white female student used a poster with the words, “If I was Black, I’d be picking cotton…but I’m white so I’m picking you!” to ask a male student to the Sweetheart Ball next month at Thunder Ridge High School in Idaho Falls, Idaho.