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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The second of two Black Democrats expelled from the Republican-led Tennessee House will return to the Legislature after a Memphis commission voted to reinstate him Wednesday, nearly a week after his banishment for supporting gun control protesters propelled him into the national spotlight. Hundreds of supporters marched Justin Pearson through Memphis […]

PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona House of Representatives on Wednesday expelled a Republican lawmaker who organized a presentation making unsubstantiated accusations that a wide range of politicians, judges and public officials of both parties took bribes from a Mexican drug cartel. Rep. Liz Harris, a prominent supporter of discredited election conspiracies, was kicked out of […]

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska lawmakers began debate Wednesday on a bill that would ban abortion once cardiac activity can be detected in an embryo, which is generally around the sixth week of pregnancy and before most women even know they are pregnant. But the effort to pass the so-called heartbeat bill in the Republican-controlled […]

NEW YORK (AP) — When Terence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” proved a sell-out hit at the Metropolitan Opera in 2021, general manager Peter Gelb wasted no time lining up the composer’s other opera for the current season. And that set the clock ticking for Blanchard and his collaborators to adapt a relatively […]

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s government presented scaled-back plans Wednesday to liberalize the country’s rules on cannabis, including by decriminalizing possession of limited amounts and allowing members of nonprofit “cannabis clubs” to buy marijuana for recreational purposes. In a second step, German officials also envision setting up regional test projects to sell cannabis through “commercial supply […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Mario, Madonna and Mariah have entered the national audio canon. Madonna’s star-making 1984 album “Like a Virgin,” Mariah Carey’s 1994 holiday perennial “All I Want For Christmas Is You” and the original 1985 theme from Super Mario Bros. are now in the U.S. National Recording Registry as part of “the defining sounds […]

The Biden administration is declaring xylazine-laced fentanyl an official emerging drug threat to the nation, the first time any drug has been given that label.

The unemployment rate for Black Americans reached a historic low in Friday’s jobs report but is still 1.5 percentage points higher than the unemployment rate for the workforce overall. With the Fed raising interest rates in response to inflation and putting service-sector and lower-paying jobs in its crosshairs, economic barriers to maximum employment remain in […]

CHICAGO (AP) — Donald Trump won the White House in 2016 by breaking up the famed electoral “blue wall,” snatching the Midwestern battleground states of Michigan and Wisconsin, along with Pennsylvania, from Democrats. He lost the White House four years later when those same states flipped to Joe Biden. Both parties are already zeroing in […]

Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) is passing on a run for Senate in the Wolverine State, opting to remain in the House. “After much consideration, I have decided that I can best serve Michigan and our nation as a member of the U.S. House. Because, bluntly, I love my job. I love my district. And most […]

Ten House Republicans on Tuesday backed a lawsuit that seeks to overturn the latest omnibus spending bill by challenging the lower chamber’s use of proxy voting as unconstitutional. In an amicus brief, the lawmakers wrote in support of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s (R) effort in court to block implementation of the mammoth $1.7 trillion […]