FILE – Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File) The chief of the Cherokee Nation says it’s time for Jeep to stop using the tribe’s name on its Cherokee and Grand Cherokee models. Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. said in a statement he believes corporations and team sports should stop using Native American names, images and mascots…
The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 has topped 500,000 – a number so staggering that a top health researcher says it is hard to imagine an American who hasn’t lost a relative or doesn’t know someone who died. The virus has reached into all corners of the country and communities of every size. At the same time, many families are…
This combination of photos shows people riding bicycles in New York’s Times Square, left, on April 29, 2020, and in Gulf State Park in Gulf Shores, Ala.(AP Photo) The federal government says the state of Alabama has no standing in trying to stop the U.S. Census Bureau from including people in the country illegally from the numbers used for divvying…
A couple walk through falling snow, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021, in downtown San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Many Texans finally have electricity back after a deadly blast of winter this week overwhelmed the electrical grid and left millions shivering in the cold for days. But the crisis is far from over, with 7 million in the…
This photo made available by NASA shows the second image sent by the Perseverance rover showing the surface of Mars, just after landing in the Jezero crater, on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. (NASA via AP) A NASA rover has landed on Mars in an epic quest to bring back rocks that could answer whether life ever existed on the red…
FILE – In this Jan. 17, 2018 file photo, former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole smiles as he gets a kiss from his wife Elizabeth Dole as he is honored with a Congressional Gold Medal, at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Former longtime Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas has announced that he has been diagnosed with Stage…
AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File) LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say a Los Angeles college student and self-described fascist has been arrested after sitting in former Vice President Mike Pence’s chair in the Senate chambers during the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Officials say Christian Secor was ordered held without bail Tuesday during his first appearance in federal court. Secor is…
(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) A new report finds that life expectancy in the United States dropped a staggering one year during the first half of 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic caused its first wave of deaths. Minorities suffered the biggest impact, with Black people losing nearly three years and Hispanics, nearly two years. The estimates were re-leased Thursday by the Centers…
(AP Photo/John Minchillo, File) WASHINGTON (AP) – The House Financial Services Committee holds a hearing Thursday following January’s GameStop saga during which shares soared 1,600% before falling back to Earth. The episode has been portrayed as a victory of the little guy over Wall Street giants, but not everyone is buying it. Lawmakers of both parties are among the skeptics….
FILE – In this Feb. 4, 2020 file photo, Rush Limbaugh reacts as first Lady Melania Trump, and his wife Kathryn, applaud, as President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) Rush Limbaugh, the talk radio host who became the voice of American conservatism, has died. His death Wednesday at the age of 70…
