A South Carolina jury has found a store owner not guilty of murder in the 2023 shooting of a Black 14-year-old.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani did not attend an annual parade honoring Israel, breaking with a decades-long political custom because of his support of Palestinian rights.

Former Arcadia Mayor Eileen Wang has pleaded guilty to being an illegal agent of the Chinese government.

New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill has sent state police to establish designated protest zones and vehicle checkpoints outside an immigration detention center in Newark.

The White House is moving to give political appointees more control over federal grants.

A federal immigration agent wanted in the shooting of a Venezuelan man during the Trump administration’s Minnesota crackdown has been arrested in Texas.

Louisiana lawmakers have passed a new congressional map to pick up a Republican seat while leaving the state with one of its two majority-Black House districts.

A pregnant woman from Ghana who entered the U.S. on a valid visa with her son so he could get medical attention has been held for more than a week in a windowless detention room at a Washington airport, her lawyers said in court documents.

The Trump administration's review of Mexico's 53 U.S. consulates has stoked worries among Mexicans in the U.S. that some could be shuttered, making it harder for them to access important services.

French lawmakers have voted to repeal a 17th-century law that governed enslaved people in France's colonies.

Stop AAPI Hate is an organization that rose to national prominence for its meticulous reports on anti-Asian hate incidents at the height of the pandemic.

Democratic members of Congress are describing dire conditions within a federal immigration detention center in New Jersey where protesters have been demonstrating and asserting that detainees inside are on a hunger strike.

A South Carolina jury heard opening statements in the trial of a store owner charged with murder in the killing of a Black 14-year-old.

South Africa's government and Afrikaner advocacy groups reject the notion of a humanitarian emergency affecting white people in the country.

The mayor of Minneapolis says the police chief hired to oversee reforms after George Floyd’s killing has chosen to resign rather than face discipline for interfering with an investigation into his conduct.

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The South Carolina Senate has rejected President Donald Trump’s push to redraw the state’s congressional districts in hopes Republicans could gain an extra seat.

Federal judges have temporarily blocked Alabama’s plan to use new congressional districts that could help Republicans win an additional seat in the midterm elections.

The head of an inquiry into antisemitism in Australia has condemned online hatred and bigotry targeting Jewish witnesses.

Pope Leo XIV has made a historic apology for the role the Holy See played in legitimizing slavery.

Court records reveal new details about one of two teenagers who killed three people at a San Diego mosque.

Former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil's lawyers say they'll ask the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene after a federal appeals court declined to reconsider a decision that put the government a step closer to deporting him.

Advocates for telling the whole truth of American history are celebrating the legacy of Ona Judge, from her footprints in Philadelphia to her face in New Hampshire.

All charges against four activists who protested outside a federal building during last year’s immigration crackdown in Chicago have been dropped in an unusual hearing where a top federal prosecutor appeared to acknowledge grand jury misconduct by his office.

Federal officials have given final approval for a controversial segment of the Dakota Access oil pipeline that crosses the Missouri River.

An attack at a California Islamic center is the latest violence where the perpetrators said they were inspired by past atrocities, such as the 2019 massacre in Christchurch, New Zealand.

A Tennessee judge has set a $1 million bond for a white livestreamer charged with attempted murder for allegedly shooting and wounding a Black man.

A lawsuit filed on behalf of students and community organizations in Massachusetts argues the state is illegally maintaining schools that are racially segregated, concentrating Black and Latino students in high-poverty districts with fewer opportunities.

The South Carolina House has endorsed a plan to redraw its congressional districts to favor Republicans at the urging of President Donald Trump.

The NAACP is calling on Black athletes, alumni, fans and the general public to boycott the athletic programs of public universities in states that aim to redistrict longtime Black lawmakers.

A Minnesota county prosecutor has charged an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in the nonfatal shooting of a Venezuelan man during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the state.

The South Carolina House is debating legislation that could redraw congressional districts to help Republicans possibly win an additional seat in the November elections.

Indigenous leaders say that federal contractors are desecrating sacred Native American places and cultural sites at an unprecedented pace in the rush to build more walls on the U.S.-Mexico border.

The year was 1965 and Black Americans had come to Montgomery, Alabama, to demonstrate peacefully voting rights.

The Trump administration has run the names of at least 67 million voters through government databases as it looks for noncitizens and people who've died.

Félicien Kabuga, accused of bankrolling the Rwandan genocide, died in a hospital in The Hague while in custody, a U.N. court said.

María Cabrera and her family fled into the night-cloaked mountains of central Mexico with only the clothes on their backs when bombs fell from the sky and bullets ricocheted off her concrete floors.

A family-owned Latino grocery store in Delaware is attracting online audiences and bands from far away with monthly concerts from diverse artists and genres.

Thousands of people gathered in Montgomery, Alabama, to mobilize support for voting rights amid concerns about redistricting efforts.

A new generation of civil rights leaders is rallying against efforts to dismantle the Voting Rights Act.

New U.S. House districts in Florida are facing their first test in court.

State senators in Louisiana have passed a new congressional map after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the previous one.

The leader of an Eastern European neo-Nazi group has been sentenced in New York to 15 years in prison for trying to recruit others to commit violent acts against Jews and racial minorities.

A group of Black divers recently visited the site where the British slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 326 years ago.

House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries had warned Republicans they would come to regret the congressional redistricting fight.

Environmental groups say the expected closure of a detention center in the Florida Everglades is linked to their lawsuit.

Republican senators in Louisiana have advanced a plan to eliminate one of two majority-Black U.S. House districts for this year's elections.

Timed for release during AAPI Heritage Month, “The A List: 15 Stories from Asian and Pacific Diasporas” has dropped on HBO Max.

The Philadelphia region is rich in golf history, yet the area's greatest contribution to the game may have come from public course in West Philadelphia.

President Donald Trump's efforts to reshape U.S. House districts have seen mixed outcomes.

Civil rights attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons learned about the Tulsa Race Massacre during college.

A new digital textbook from UCLA aims to change stereotypes about Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders by teaching their history.

A new congressional map in Tennessee splits the majority-Black city of Memphis into three districts.

Google has reached a settlement with Black employees who alleged systemic racial disparities in hiring, pay, and advancement in a lawsuit filed in 2022.

Alabama lawmakers have approved a plan for new U.S. House primaries if courts allow the state to use different congressional districts in this year’s elections.

The only person ever charged in the unsolved 2021 disappearance of Navajo elder Ella Mae Begay has been sentenced to five years in federal prison.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says the immigration detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” always was meant to be temporary.

Tennessee has enacted a new U.S. House map that carves up a majority-Black district in Memphis.

The Justice Department has found UCLA's medical school illegally considered race in admissions.

Republicans are rapidly pursuing redistricting efforts across the South following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that affects majority-Black congressional districts.

Nayomie Mendoza is a Mexican American business owner who is celebrating Mexican history and resilience on Cinco de Mayo.

Indigenous people are gathering to honor loved ones who have gone missing or been killed.

Republicans have gained an advantage in a national congressional redistricting battle among states ahead of the midterm elections.

An Australian inquiry into antisemitism has heard from Jewish Australians who feel increasingly fearful after a massacre at a Hanukkah celebration.

A new poll indicates fewer Asian American and Pacific Islander adults are reporting overt anti-Asian attacks than during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The U.S. Supreme Court has escalated a nationwide redistricting war by removing one of the few remaining limits on partisan gerrymandering.

Nine Native American tribes are suing the federal government in a bid to stop exploratory drilling for graphite near a sacred site in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

A generation of Black Americans across the South fought in courtrooms and in the streets during the Civil Rights Movement to dismantle barriers to voting.

A federal judge in New York is protecting about 3,000 refugees from Yemen from being forced to leave the U.S., saying the Temporary Protected Status that was repeatedly granted to them should be extended again.

A Supreme Court decision striking down a majority Black congressional district in Louisiana has amplified an already intense national redistricting battle.

Two years after his death, President Jimmy Carter is still inspiring Habitat for Humanity's efforts to build more affordable housing in the U.S. Over five days in May, nearly 1,000 volunteers with the international nonprofit will finish building 24 new housing units in Atlanta.

A top Kurdish militant commander says Turkey has effectively "frozen" a peace initiative with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party or PKK.

The Voting Rights Act over its six decades became one of the most consequential laws in the nation’s history, preventing discrimination against minorities at the ballot box and helping to elect thousands of Black and Hispanic representatives at all levels of government.

A North Texas man who claimed he wasn’t the shooter in a fatal robbery that killed two people nearly 18 years ago and who says prosecutors misused rap lyrics he wrote to secure his death sentence has been executed.

Black members of Congress are bracing for a crippling shake-up of their ranks after a Supreme Court ruling gutted a key section of the Voting Rights Act that had protected minority communities in political redistricting and helped boost their representation.

Several states already are taking steps to respond to a U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down a majority Black congressional district in Louisiana.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority has handed Republicans their biggest victory yet in the battle to control the House of Representatives and statehouses across the country.

The Supreme Court has weakened a key tool of the Voting Rights Act that has helped combat racial discrimination in voting for over 50 years.

Tracy Sturdivant will succeed Teresa Younger as the next president and CEO of the Ms. Foundation, the first national philanthropy run by and for women.

A Mexican man in the United States has pleaded guilty to impersonating a Border Patrol agent and following federal immigration officers to divert them while they were out on immigration enforcement missions in Southern California.

The Southern Poverty Law Center has told a federal court that law enforcement agencies knew for years that the nonprofit was paying informants to report on the movements of hate groups.

Latino leaders are gaining ground in U.S. politics despite ongoing challenges.

On Newport’s south side, historic and opulent mansions sit on an avenue with mature trees that help cool the neighborhoods, clean the air and foster wildlife.

The Trump administration’s historic move to reclassify state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug was cheered by some advocates but for others, it fell far short for the thousands incarcerated for federal cannabis-related convictions.

A Virginia university has approved funding for a memorial for dozens of people, most of African descent, whose bodies were taken from their graves for use by medical students and then dumped in a forgotten well.

Jack Thornell, the Associated Press photographer whose picture from an assassination attempt on James Meredith in 1966 won a Pulitzer Prize, has died at age 86.

First came the racist abuse against Vinícius Júnior.

Attorneys for a Black man scheduled to be executed in Texas say the introduction of rap lyrics he wrote biased an almost all-white jury when they decided to sentence him to death.

A small Indigenous village in Alaska wants to reclaim its status as a top spot for polar bear tourism.

The Southern Poverty Law Center's indictment is sparking outrage among civil rights leaders.

More than two years after an Ohio judge declared a mistrial, a murder retrial has begun for a former Ohio sheriff’s deputy charged in the December 2020 killing of a Black man.

Paving roads in the Amazon rainforest often causes deforestation that threatens the people who live there.

A new AP-NORC poll finds many of the groups that helped elect Donald Trump as president again are deeply unhappy with his performance.

Xaneri Merino, a transgender woman and artisan from southern Mexico, was once punished for weaving in her Indigenous community, where men are largely barred from weaving.

Fernando Mendoza and Diego Pavia pulled off an unprecedented double at the Heisman Trophy ceremony in December.

Two deadly cases of domestic violence — one in Louisiana and the other in Virginia targeting Black mothers — have sparked a national conversation about domestic violence prevention and mental health care resources available to Black communities.

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The stories of Black and Indigenous men who fought during the American Revolution are sometimes overlooked.

Relatives of a jail inmate whom investigators determined died after a Kansas sheriff’s deputy shoved his knee into the cuffed man’s back for one minute and 26 seconds have filed a federal lawsuit.

From its earliest days as a country, the diverse United States has aspired to unity.