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The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell sharply last week but remained high by historical standards.

Takata air bags have caused at least 27 deaths worldwide, including 18 in the U.S. About 400 have been injured.

Title: Victor Trammell for Your Black World News | Photo credits: NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images Amanda Gorman (pictured), an award-winning Black female writer, is slated to become the youngest inaugural poet when she recites her work at President-elect  Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 20, 2021. But this is not the first time the talented 22-year-old has broken barriers. In 2014, Gorman became the first Youth Poet Laureate of Los Angeles, California. Three years later, she was named the nation’s first National Youth Poet Laureate. Democratic presidents have traditionally celeb...

Amazon buys Wondery, gets into the podcast business Joseph Pisani NEW YORK — Amazon is jumping into the podcast business. The online shopping giant is buying Wondery, a 4-year-old producer of popular true crime podcasts such as "Dr. Death" and "Dirty John," which was later turned into a TV series. An explosion of new podcasts has led to a number of acquisitions as competing platforms try to grow their audiences and their ad revenue. The music streaming platform Spotify bought two podcast companies in 2019 and it's added high-profile hosts to its roster, including Prince Harry and Meghan Mar...

FO spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri addresses a press conference. — DawnNewsTV/File Foreign Office (FO) spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri has said that there are no institutionalised forced conversions in the country, He said that probes into the allegations of forced conversions revealed that most of them were “fictitious, politically motivated or based on the mala fide intention of our detractors to malign Pakistan in the international community", the report stated. In this regard, Chaudhri cited the example of the findings by Brussels-based EU Disinfo Lab about an Indian disinforma...