Week In Review

ABOVE PHOTO: In this Thursday, May 23, 2019 file photo, Walter Hussman Jr., publisher of the statewide newspaper the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, explains to members of the Hope, Arkansas Rotary Club how to access and use the paper’s digital replica on an iPad in Hope, Ark. Walter Hussman Jr. a major University of North Carolina donor…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Betty Sawyer joins educators and community activists in protesting Utah lawmakers’ plans to pass resolutions encouraging a ban of critical race theory concepts outside of the Capitol in Salt Lake City as both supporters and counter protesters stand behind her. (Kristin Murphy/The Deseret News via AP) By Bryan Anderson ASSOCIATED PRESS  RALEIGH, N.C….

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ABOVE PHOTO: Gary Bledsoe, president of the Texas NAACP, left, shakes hands with State Rep. Ron Reynolds, D – Missouri City, after they spoke at a news conference against Senate Bill 7, known as the Election Integrity Protection Act, at the Capitol in Austin, Texas, on Sunday May 30, 2021. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Chairman of the Yesh Atid Party, Yair Lapid, delivers a statement to the press in the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, in Jerusalem, on Monday, May 31, 2021. (Debbie Hill/Pool via AP) By Josef Federman ASSOCIATED PRESS  JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s opponents on Wednesday announced they have reached a deal to…

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ABOVE PHOTO: A plaque is seen outside of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School on Tk’emlups te Secwépemc First Nation in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada on Thursday, May 27, 2021. The remains of 215 children have been found buried on the site of the former residential school in Kamloops. (Andrew Snucins/The Canadian Press via AP)…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Family members of Ronald Greene listen to speakers as demonstrators gather for the March on Washington, in Washington, on the 57th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech. Body camera video obtained by The Associated Press shows Louisiana state troopers stunning, punching and dragging the Black man…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Nikole Hannah-Jones attends the 75th Annual Peabody Awards Ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street in New York. Faculty members of a North Carolina university want an explanation for the school’s reported decision to back away from offering a tenured teaching position to Nikole Hannah-Jones. Hannah-Jones’ work on the country’s history of slavery has drawn…

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ABOVE PHOTO: A person reacts near Cup Foods after a guilty verdict was announced at the trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin for the 2020 death of George Floyd, in Minneapolis, Minn. A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows Americans are more likely than they were before…

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ABOVE PHOTO: A makeshift memorial is seen Thursday, April 22, 2021, in Brooklyn Center, Minn., near the site of the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright by a police officer during a traffic stop. (AP Photo/Morry Gash) By Amy Forliti ASSOCIATED PRESS  MINNEAPOLIS — Leaders in the Minneapolis suburb where a police officer fatally shot Daunte…

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By JESSICA GRESKO and MARK SHERMAN ASSOCIATED PRESS  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide a major abortion case that could dramatically alter decades of rulings on abortion rights and eventually lead to dramatic restrictions on abortion access. It’s been nearly 50 years since the court announced in its landmark 1973 Roe…

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