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Today in Black America - May 11

POSTED: May 11, 2023, 10:00 am

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The New York Times

What’s Driving Record Levels of Migration to the U.S. Border?


CNN’s forum was a bracing preview of 2024 campaign coverage to come.


E.P.A. Proposes First Limits on Climate Pollution From Existing Power Plants



The Associated Press


Expel George Santos? GOP leaders aren’t ready to take that step

McConnell opposes Alabama Republican’s blockade of military nominees over Pentagon abortion policy


Idaho man who dangled from Senate balcony during Capitol riot receives 15-month prison sentence



The Washington Post


George Santos backed a bill to fight unemployment fraud. Now he’s charged with it.

Texas uses aggressive tactics to arrest migrants as Title 42 ends


Alsobrooks flexes on-the-ground support day after Senate campaign launch


The Baltimore Sun


West Baltimore native sees his parents’ interracial relationship as ‘testimony to the power of ordinary people to remake America’


With billions of dollars for schools in play, Maryland’s Blueprint authorities struggle to work together


City-backed apartment complex in West Baltimore struggling to retain residents, documents show


NJ.com

Fired, suspended, demoted. See the list of ‘major discipline’ against N.J. cops.

Man shot by police after firing gun near NJ Transit train station, officials say

Influential Hudson County Democratic Organization flexes its muscles -- again


The Los Angeles Times


A victim of unprovoked street violence or a vigilante who ‘terrorized’ homeless San Franciscans?

GOP voters in liberal bastions could have outsize role in California’s presidential primary


Skelton: Trump and the Republican Party aren’t winning over young California voters, a bad sign for the GOP


The Chicago Sun-Times

Two mothers linked by tragedy: One lost her police officer daughter, the other’s 16-year-old son is accused of the murder


4 teens charged in fatal shooting of Chicago police Officer Aréanah Preston during ‘very violent crime spree’

Cook County to erase $79M in patient debt



The Atlanta Journal Constitution


Historian, descendant of ‘Promised Land’ slaver blasts Gwinnett official


Atlanta awaits office market ‘reckoning’ as financial pressure mounts

New biography faults LBJ for endangering King’s life





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