This Dec. 17, 2020, photo shows the logo for the Robinhood app on a smartphone in New York. After a rocket rise where it introduced millions of people to investing and reshaped the brokerage industry, all while racking up a long list of controversies in less than eight years, Robinhood is about to take the […]
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Denied ticket over COVID, Guinean Olympian clings to dream
Guinean wrestler Fatoumata Yarie Camara poses for a portrait at the end of her morning training session at the Ostia’s Olympic training center, near Rome, Monday, July 5, 2021. A West African wrestler’s dream of competing in the Olympics has come down to a plane ticket. Fatoumata Yarie Camara is the only Guinean athlete to […]
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Infrastructure talks leave Biden’s entire agenda at risk
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., a key negotiator in the infrastructure talks, is surrounded by reporters as intense negotiations continue to salvage a bipartisan deal, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, July 27, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) By Alan Fram Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s latest leap into the Senate’s up-and-down efforts […]
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Racism of rioters takes center stage in Jan. 6 hearing
U.S. Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell left, and U.S. Capitol Police Sgt. Harry Dunn stand after the House select committee hearing on the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 27, 2021. (AP Photo/ Andrew Harnik, Pool) By Aaron Morrison Associated Press It had only been hinted at in previous public examinations […]
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Sparked by pandemic fallout, homeschooling surges across US
Arlena Brown, center, holds her youngest child, Lucy, 9 months, as she leads their other children, from left, Jacoby, 11; Felicity, 9, and Riley, 10, through math practice at their home in Austin, Texas, Tuesday, July 13, 2021. Arlena worked as a preschool teacher before the pandemic. “In the beginning, the biggest challenge was to […]
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28 abducted Baptist school students freed in Nigeria
Parents are reunited with released students of the Bethel Baptist High School in Damishi, Nigeria, on Sunday, July 25, 2021. Armed kidnappers in Nigeria have released 28 of the more than 120 students who were abducted at the beginning of July from the Bethel Baptist High School in the northern town of Damishi. Church officials […]
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Official: 1960s civil rights activist Robert Moses has died
In this July 19, 2000 file photo, Robert “Bob” Moses, a veteran civil rights activist and founder of the Algebra Project, a math literacy program in Mississippi, speaks in Jackson, Miss. Moses, a civil rights activist who endured beatings and jail while leading Black voter registration drives in the American South during the 1960s and […]
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Leon Bridges shares his evolution to ‘Gold-Diggers Sound’
Grammy-winning artist Leon Bridges discusses his musical and personal evolution as he releases his third studio album, the R&B-forward “Gold-Diggers Sound.” in Fort Worth, Texas, Wednesday, July 21, 2021. (AP Photo/LM Otero) By Ragan Clark The Associated Press “Gold-Diggers Sound” is an apropos name for the third studio album of an artist who struck it […]
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UN experts: Africa became hardest hit by terrorism this year
A Somali soldier stands near a destroyed building in Mogadishu, Somalia, Friday, March 1, 2019. Police say a nearly day-long siege in the heart of Somalia’s capital has ended with all of the al-Shabab extremist attackers killed. More than 20 are dead with the number expected to climb as hospitals report more than 50 wounded, […]
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‘This can be me’: Black participation rising in gymnastics
In this Aug. 9, 2016, file photo, U.S. gymnasts and gold medallists, Simone Biles, left and Gabrielle Douglas celebrate on the podium during the medal ceremony for the artistic gymnastics women’s team at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The success of Olympic gymnastics champions Gabby Douglas and Simone Biles has created […]
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Obama Unrelenting in Bashing Romney’s Policies
GLEN ALLEN, Va. (AP) — President Barack Obama is keeping up his attacks on the policies of rival Mitt Romney and his Republican allies. During a campaign stop Saturday in Glen Allen, Va., just outside Richmond, the president cast Romney as a “pioneer of outsourcing” and said Romney’s ideas are outdated and discredited. Obama campaigned […]
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San Antonio Spurs Tony Parker on French Olympic Team But Status Uncertain
PARIS (AP) — San Antonio Spurs guard Tony Parker was included on the 12-man roster for France’s Olympic basketball team despite a left eye injury that could keep him sidelined. Parker suffered a scratch to his cornea in a fight involving singer Chris Brown and members of hip-hop star Drake’s entourage in a New York […]