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An Ohio officer who reportedly missed a gun carried by Miles Jackson was asked before not to rush his work.
Ohio Officer Whose Pat-Down Missed Gun Cautioned Against Rushing
  • 15 April 2021
An Ohio officer who missed a gun during a pat-down of Miles Jackson had been...
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FILE - In this Thursday, March 2, 2107 file photo, Tucker Carlson, host of "Tucker Carlson Tonight," poses for a photo in a Fox News Channel studio in New York. The Anti-Defamation League has called for Fox News to fire prime-time opinion host Tucker Carlson because he defended a white-supremacist theory that says whites are being “replaced” by people of color. In a letter to Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott on Friday, April 9, 2021the head of the ADL, Jonathan Greenblatt, said Carlson's “rhetoric was not just a dog whistle to racists — it was a bullhorn.” (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
Fox Stands Behind Tucker Carlson After ADL Urges His Firing
  • 12 April 2021
The ADL listed numerous instances Carlson has used anti-immigrant language in the past, including blaming...
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Hutchinson vetoed legislation that would have made Arkansas the first to ban gender confirming treatments for transgender youth.
Arkansas Lawmakers Enact Transgender Youth Treatment Ban
  • 6 April 2021
Arkansas lawmakers made the state the first to ban gender confirming treatments and surgery for...
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FILE - In this Monday, June 4, 2018, file photograph, baker Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, manages his shop in Lakewood, Colo. Baker, who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple in 2012 is being sued by a lawyer for declining to make a cake celebrating her gender transition. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2018 the commission showed anti-religious bias when it sanctioned Phillips. The justices did not rule on the larger issue of whether businesses can invoke religious objections to refuse service to gays or lesbians. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
Colorado Baker Sued for Refusing Gender Transition Cake
  • 22 March 2021
A Colorado baker who won a partial victory at the U.S. Supreme Court in 2018...
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South Carolina head coach Dawn Staley puts streamers on a trophy after an NCAA college basketball game against Georgia Sunday, March 7, 2021, during the Southeastern Conference tournament final in Greenville, S.C. (AP Photo/Sean Rayford)
NCAA Inequity Raised in Women’s Basketball Weight Training Facilities
  • 19 March 2021
The teams had barely landed in Texas when complaints of inequity between the women’s and...
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FILE - In this April 29, 2018, file photo, Chris Harrison presents the award for outstanding entertainment talk show host at the Daytime Emmy Awards at the Pasadena Civic Center in Pasadena, Calif. Harrison will not host the upcoming season of “The Bachelorette” following controversy over racially insensitive comments, and will instead be replaced with two former contestants, ABC Entertainment and Warner Horizon said in a statement Friday, March 12, 2021. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)
New Hosts for ‘The Bachelorette’ After Racial Controversy
  • 13 March 2021
Tayshia Adams and Kaitlyn Bristowe will pick up hosting duties for the show’s next season.
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FILE - In this Saturday, Sept. 12, 2020, file photo, fans join in singing "The Eyes of Texas" after Texas defeated UTEP 59-3 in an NCAA college football game in Austin, Texas. The University of Texas' long-awaited report on the history of the school song “The Eyes of Texas” found it had “no racist intent,” but the school will not require athletes and band members to participate in singing or playing it at games and campus events. The song had erupted in controversy in 2020 after some members of the football team demanded the school stop playing it because of racist elements in the song’s past. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)
University of Texas Says ‘No Racist Intent’ Behind Song ‘Eyes of Texas’
  • 9 March 2021
The long-awaited report from the University of Texas was commissioned after a group of Texas...
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FILE - In this file photo dated Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, American poet Amanda Gorman recites a poem during the Inauguration of U.S. President Joe Biden at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, USA. Writer Marieke Lucas Rijneveld announced on Twitter Friday Feb. 26, 2021, that she has handed back the assignment to translate American poet Amanda Gorman's work into Dutch, following criticism that a white author was selected to translate the works. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, FILE)
Amanda Gorman Says She Was Racially Profiled Near Her Home
  • 6 March 2021
The inaugural poet posted to social media that she was followed home by a security...
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This image taken body camera video released by the Rochester, N.Y., Police Department on Friday, March 5, 2021, shows an officer struggling to subdue a woman suspected of shoplifting who tried to escape with her 3-year-old child in her arms on Feb. 22, 2021. A Rochester police officer has been placed on administrative duty after using pepper spray on the woman, authorities said Friday. (Rochester Police Department via AP)
Police Investigate Pepper Spraying of Mother Near Toddler
  • 5 March 2021
A Rochester police officer has been placed on administrative duty after using pepper spray on...
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FILE - In this July 7, 2020, file photo, crews attach straps to the statue Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va. At least 160 Confederate symbols were taken down or moved from public spaces in 2020. That's according to a new count the Southern Poverty Law Center shared with The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)
At Least 160 Confederate Symbols Taken Down in 2020
  • 23 February 2021
When rioters tore through the U.S. Capitol, some of them gripping Confederate battle flags, they...
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FILE - In this Dec. 12, 2020, file photo, MD Crawford carries a Black Lives Matter flag before a march in La Marque, Texas to protest the shooting of Joshua Feast, 22, by a La Marque police officer. A financial snapshot shared exclusively with The Associated Press shows the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation took in just over $90 million last year. (Stuart Villanueva /The Galveston County Daily News via AP, File)
Black Lives Matter Opens Up About Its Finances
  • 23 February 2021
The foundation widely seen as a steward of the Black Lives Matter movement says it...
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FILE - In this Aug. 3, 2018, file photo, Seattle Mariners president Kevin Mather stands on the field before the team's baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays in Seattle. Mather apologized late Sunday night, Feb. 21, 2021, for comments made during a recent online event where he expressed opinions about organizational strategy, personnel moves and club finances. Mather’s comments came in a speech to the Bellevue, Wash., Breakfast Rotary Club on Feb. 5 and were posted online over the weekend. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
Mariners CEO Kevin Mather Resigns After Video Comments
  • 22 February 2021
Seattle Mariners CEO Kevin Mather has resigned after video surfaced of him expressing his views...
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