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Thavarathnam Pushparani fought on the front lines for the now-defeated Tamil Tiger rebels against the Sri Lankan forces in its decades-long separatist war and later took to clearing the land mines on the same battle lines.
Yale Law School has fired a scholar it says refused to appear in person to answer questions about her possible ties to organizations deemed to support terrorism.
The acting chief of the top federal agency for protecting worker rights has signaled a pivot toward prioritizing President Donald Trumpโs campaign to stamp out diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the private and public sectors.
Democratic Sen. Cory Booker broke the record for the longest floor speech in recorded Senate history when he bested Sen. Strom Thurmond's filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
The FBI is sending extra agents, analysts and other personnel to field offices in 10 states over the next six months to help investigate unsolved violent crimes in Indian Country.
Packed pews, rollicking singing and emotional devotions have marked Lent worship services at Notre Dame d'Haiti, the Catholic church at the heart of the largest Haitian diaspora in the United States.
A French minister has accused U.S. diplomats of interfering in the operations of French companies by sending them a letter reportedly telling them that U.S. President Donald Trumpโs rollback of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives could also apply outside of the United States.
The chairperson of an African charity co-founded by Prince Harry has accused him of orchestrating a bullying and harassment campaign to try to force her out.
Race weekend has arrived, and the excitement is palpable as NASCAR fans flock to Martinsville for days filled with racing, tailgating, and cherished traditions. People from all over are making their way to this iconic venue.
A judge has ruled that a jury from outside of Memphis will be seated in the state court trial of three former police officers charged with second-degree murder in the 2023 beating death of Tyre Nichols after a traffic stop.
The Virginia Department of Transportation has given numerous recommendations for race fans who are driving to Martinsville Speedway from March 28 to March 30.
Tensions are rising in the oil-rich east African nation of South Sudan after Riek Machar who serves as a vice president was arrested in the capital.
President Donald Trump has reopened a debate in the fight over the federal governmentโs role in education policy after signing an executive order to dismantle the U.S. Education Department.
It was five years ago this month that COVID-19-fueled incidents against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders became so frequent that a reporting center was formed.
โASCO: Without Permissionโ is director Travis Gutiรฉrrez Senger's latest documentary and executive produced by Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna.
The Black creators of some consumers products are rethinking their business plans as major U.S. companies end or water down their diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
Senate Democrats accuse the Environmental Protection Agency of breaking the law when they cancelled grants worth more than $1.5 billion focused on improving the environment in minority communities hit hard by pollution.
The Prairie Land Potawatomi Nation has reclaimed land in Illinois that was promised to the tribeโs leader 175 years ago but stolen by the federal government 20 years later.
Testimony from parliamentary inquiries and other evidence shows that top Thai officials secretly decided to hand a group of Uyghur detainees over to China while denying plans to do so in public, giving the detainees and their advocates no chance to make a last-ditch appeal before they were bundled off and sent back to a country where where U.N. experts say they could face torture or other punishment.
The U.S. Education Department says it is investigating dozens of universities for alleged racial discrimination, citing ties to a nonprofit organization that has helped Black and Latino students pursue business degrees.
A review of Iowaโs voter rolls shows 35 people who are not U.S. citizens were among more than 1.6 million Iowa voters who cast ballots in the 2024 general election, despite being ineligible to vote.
Cyprus and the United Nations agency for refugees are clashing over allegations that the east Mediterranean island nation continues to engage in so-called pushbacks against migrant boats departing from neighboring Syria or Lebanon.
Kentucky Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear has vetoed a GOP-backed bill to dismantle diversity, equity and inclusion efforts at the state's public universities.
A new study finds that a common blood test for ovarian cancer may miss some Black and Native American patients, delaying their treatment.
Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast released the Grammy-nominated album โJubileeโ and bestselling memoir โCrying in H Martโ in 2021.
The Pentagon has restored some webpages highlighting the wartime contributions of Navajo Code Talkers and other Native American veterans.
Authorities say two brothers of the Venezuelan man who killed Georgia nursing student Laken Riley will be deported along with their former roommate after they pleaded guilty to possessing fake green cards.
A Department of Defense webpage describing baseball and civil rights icon Jackie Robinsonโs military service has been restored.
America's ports have long struggled with dirty air that chokes nearby neighborhoods and jeopardizes the health of people living there.
A new report identifies ways to create resilient water and wastewater systems in communities hardest hit by climate change.
The Trump administration is pushing for the the U.S. Supreme Court to allow some restrictions on birthright citizenship even as legal battles continue over President Donald Trumpโs orders to end what has long been seen as a constitutional promise.
In a state so often divided along partisan lines, Democrats and Republicans alike were moved to tears as they gathered in the Florida capitol Thursday to honor the life and legacy of Democratic state Sen. Geraldine Thompson, a longtime legislator, civil rights legend and educator who died on Feb. 13 at the age of 76.
Syriaโs interim president has signed a temporary constitution that leaves the country under Islamist rule for five years during a transitional phase.
U.N. Secretary-General Antรณnio Guterres is on a four-day visit to Bangladesh for a first-hand look at the situation of more than 1 million Rohingya refugees as fears mount of serious aid cuts.
The Trump administration says it is dropping a civil lawsuit against the largest provider of housing for unaccompanied migrant children over alleged sexual abuse of minors at its facilities.
A new AP-NORC/AAPI Data poll shows that most Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders do not agree with the strategy of putting entire federal agencies on the chopping block, nor are they broadly on board with mass layoffs of federal workers.
As the Trump administration moves to dismantle the Education Department, officials have suggested other agencies could take over its major responsibilities.
The White House complained that Columbia University is refusing to help federal agents find people being sought as part of the governmentโs effort to deport participants in pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
Attorneys for a man accused of killing four women at Atlanta massage businesses asked a judge not to let a jury hear statements he made after his arrest.
The Education Departmentโs Office for Civil Rights is best known for enforcing disability rights across Americaโs schools, but under President Donald Trump itโs being reshaped into a frontline figure in the presidentโs political battles.
Crews have begun work to remove the large yellow โBlack Lives Matterโ painted on the street one block from the White House.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has rescinded two Biden-era memos that had state agencies consider social and environmental justice factors when making decisions concerning critical national infrastructure work.
Police in Australia say an explosives-filled trailer that politicians earlier described as an antisemitic terrorism plot and a foiled mass casualty event was staged by criminals in a complicated hoax.
A war monitoring group says the death toll from two days of clashes between Syrian security forces and loyalists of ousted President Bashar Assad and revenge killings that followed has risen to more than 1,000, including nearly 750 civilians, making it one of the deadliest outbreaks of violence since Syriaโs conflict began 14 years ago.
Early crew members of the voyaging canoe Hokulea have gathered in Hawaii to celebrate the vessel's 50th birthday.
Green tears were flowing when Lencia Kebede made history this week on Broadway, becoming the first Black actor to assume the role of Elphaba full time in the Broadway company of โWicked.โ.
A federal judge says he won't order immigration authorities to revert to a Biden-era policy limiting arrests at schools after officials in Denver challenged new policies from the Trump administration.
North Carolina Republicans who are resolved to promote President Donald Trumpโs agenda want to compel the new Democratic governor to aid the president's immigration policy.
A San Carlos Apache teen who was reported missing and then found dead marks one of the latest tragedies as Native American communities continue to grapple with high rates of people being killed or going missing.
A 40-day boycott of Target that calls for supporters to give up shopping at the companyโs stores during the Lenten period kicked off this week.
Fort Benningโs name honored a Confederate general who supported slavery for more than a century.
Prosecutors in upstate New York say seven people were indicted on first-degree murder charges in the killing of a 24-year-old man who was subjected to weeks of torture.
The speaker of New Zealandโs Parliament has told lawmakers that he will not consider further complaints about the use of the countryโs Mฤori name, Aotearoa, in Parliament, after one sought to have it banned.
Greenlanders have been pushed into the global spotlight in the weeks since U.S. President Donald Trump said America could take over their Arctic homeland.
Companies that depend on cross-border trade were already facing higher prices in anticipation of the tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada that took effect Tuesday.
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has granted clemency to a fired police sergeant who shot and killed an unarmed man accused of stealing sunglasses.
Miami Beach broke up with spring break last year and city leaders still arenโt interested in couples counseling.
The graves of hundreds of African American tenant farmers and their families are being moved in Virginia to make way for an industrial park.
Several of Texasโ top Republicans are defending Gov. Greg Abbottโs pick to head the stateโs water agency following pointed questions from a GOP lawmaker over the agencyโs diversity hiring policies.
The U.S. Forest Service has terminated $75 million awarded to the Arbor Day Foundation to help disadvantaged communities plant trees.
President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order designating English as the official language of the United States, and activists and advocacy groups are alarmed by what that will mean for non-English speakers when it comes to immigration, voter access and other issues.
A jury has found a 73-year-old Illinois landlord guilty in a hate crime attack that left a Palestinian American boy dead and injured his mother.
More than 50 years after a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation landed him in federal prison, Leonard Peltier remains defiant.
An โeconomic blackoutโ promoted on social media is underway but with no clear indication of how many people took part or whether retail companies and restaurants will notice any effect from the grassroots protest.
President Donald Trumpโs firing of Gen. CQ Brown Jr. as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is drawing mixed reactions on Capitol Hill.
Schools and colleges across the U.S. face a Friday deadline to end diversity programs or risk having their federal money pulled by the Trump administration, yet few are openly rushing to make changes.
A court in Bosnia has sentenced the pro-Russia Bosnian Serb president, Milorad Dodik, to one year in prison and banned him from politics for six years over his separatist actions as tensions mount in the fragile Balkan state.
Baltimore prosecutors have announced their decision to withdraw a motion to vacate Adnan Syed's murder conviction even as they support his recent request for a sentence reduction.
A new federal lawsuit in Maryland is challenging a Trump administration memo giving the nationโs schools and universities two weeks to eliminate โrace-basedโ practices of any kind or risk losing their federal money.
Brazilโs Federal Prosecutorโs Office is suing the giant mining company Vale, the Brazilian government and the Amazon state of Para over heavy metal contamination found in the bodies of Xikrin Indigenous people.
Supporters of separatist Bosnian Serb President Milorad Dodik have rallied as tensions soared on the eve of a scheduled court verdict that could order the pro-Russia Serb leader banned from politics or even sentenced to prison.
The first thing viewers of โBeyond the Gatesโ see is a black Mercedes gliding past manicured lawns and stately estates.
Investigators say the suspect in a stabbing attack at Berlinโs Holocaust Memorial that left a Spanish tourist seriously injured is a Syrian refugee who apparently wanted to kill Jews.
French street artist Shuck One is honoring Black figures who shaped Franceโs recent history on the mainland and overseas in an art installation.
Floridaโs new attorney general has filed a federal court lawsuit against Target, claiming the discount store chain โmisled investorsโ by promoting diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
President Donald Trump marked Black History Month at the White House on Thursday by making an appearance at a celebratory reception with a surprise guest, golf legend Tiger Woods, while calling out other athletes in attendance and marveling at the size of the crowd.
The Stax Music Academy in Memphis is marking its 25th anniversary with Black History Month-themed concerts on March 28.
An 86-year-old Missouri man has died just days after pleading guilty in the 2023 shooting of Ralph Yarl, a Black honor student who rang the white manโs doorbell by mistake.
An architect of a controversial bid to fly migrants from Texas to a Massachusetts resort town in 2022 has been named to guide Florida's new state board of immigration enforcement.
The Trump administration is giving Americaโs schools and universities two weeks to eliminate diversity initiatives or risk losing federal money, raising the stakes in the presidentโs fight against โwokeness.โ.
Amnesty International is urging French lawmakers to reject a bill this week that would ban headscarves in all sporting competitions.
Native American activist Leonard Peltier has been released from a Florida prison, weeks after then-President Joe Biden angered law enforcement officials by commuting his life sentence to home confinement in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents.
Khadija โBunnyโ Shaw has bowed her head and raised a gloved fist after scoring a goal on her first start for Manchester City Women since pulling out of the team because of racist abuse directed at her on social media.
The NAACP wants Black Americans to steer their buying power toward corporations that havenโt pulled back from diversity programs under conservative pressure.
The Associated Press' U.S. immigration news editor, Elliot Spagat, was joined by Rebecca Santana, who covers the Department of Homeland Security, and Christopher Sherman, who is the news director for Mexico and Central America, to talk about their coverage during an Ask-Me-Anything conversation on Reddit.
New York Cityโs Democratic mayor appeared on the โFox & Friendsโ show alongside President Donald Trumpโs border czar.
