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By Dave Klepper ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York eliminated the religious exemption to vaccine requirements for schoolchildren Thursday, as the nation’s worst measles outbreak in decades prompts states to reconsider giving parents ways to opt out of immunization rules. The Democrat-led Senate and Assembly voted Thursday to repeal the exemption, which allows parents to…

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Uber is testing restaurant food deliveries by drone. The company’s Uber Eats unit began the tests in San Diego with McDonald’s and plans to expand to other restaurants later this year. Uber says the service should decrease food delivery times. It works this way: Workers at a restaurant load the meal into…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Frank Lucas (insert- AP Photo/ Jim Cooper) By Jennifer Peltz associated press NEW YORK — Frank Lucas, the former Harlem drug kingpin whose life and lore inspired the 2007 movie “American Gangster,” has died, a relative said Friday. Lucas, who was 88, died last Thursday in New Jersey, nephew Aldwan Lassiter said. Lucas…

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Guest exposes the host on social media By NewsOne Staff newsone.com Airbnb has removed a racist host from its website after a viral video exposed the woman’s bias toward a group of Black guests in New York City. A representative for the online platform sent an email to NewsOne stating that the host was removed…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Armstrong High School in Richmond, Va. Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from the Richmond Free Press By Jeremy M. Lazarus  Hundreds of Richmond, Virginia’s . seniors will not be allowed to graduate because they have not met the state standards for a diploma. The Richmond School Board has been told that…

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A former deputy assigned to the Florida high school where 17 people were fatally shot will have to stay in jail for now on charges of child neglect and negligence for failing to intervene. Broward Judge Jackie Powell ruled Wednesday that Scot Peterson must first surrender the passport, which is…

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WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi still isn’t ready to impeach President Donald Trump. Even after special counsel Robert Mueller essentially called on Congress to pick up where his investigation left off, Pelosi isn’t budging. Scores of her Democratic lawmakers do want to start impeachment proceedings. Outside groups say it’s time. But Pelosi is…

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ABOVE PHOTO: A young man reads the name of a service member at a boot laying memorial display at Fort Bragg, N.C., May 19, 2019. (U.S. Army/Pfc. Hubert D. Delany III) By Rachael Riley The Fayetteville Observer More than 7,500 boots on display at Fort Bragg this month served as a temporary memorial to service…

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ABOVE PHOTO: U. S. Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.), center, introduces a Commission on the Social Status of Black Men and Boys. By Jane Kennedy TriceEdneyWire.com Nearly five years after Daniel Pantaleo, a New York City policeman, recklessly choked Eric Garner to death, he is just now facing prosecution at a disciplinary trial that may —…

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By Charlene Crowell TRICEEDNEYWIRE.COM If you’re like me, every time you hear a news reporter or anchor talk about how great the nation’s economy is, you wonder what world they are living in. Certainly these journalists are not referring to the ongoing struggle to make ends meet that so much of Black America faces. For…

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