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Black Lives Matter Birmingham calls for resignations of mayor, chief over fatal police shooting of Desmon Ray Jr. Updated May 10, 2021; Posted May 10, 2021 Black Lives Matter Birmingham, joined by a couple dozen of Desmon Montez Ray’s family and friends, voiced several demands at a press conference held in front of Birmingham City Hall May 10, 2021. Facebook Share Black Lives Matter Birmingham on Monday demanded the resignations of Mayor Randall Woodfin and police Chief Patrick Smith, saying their handling of the police killing of Desmon Montez Ray Jr. is unacceptable. BLM, joined by a co...

(Updated: April 25, 2021) Samantha Smith (second from right) is greeted by Russian Young Pioneers at the airport in Moscow in 1983. Valery Zufarov/Fotokhronika Tass/Hulton Archive/Getty Images In November 1982, two days after the death of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, former head of the KGB Yuri Andropov was elected General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. His KGB past raised some international eyebrows, and Andropov was preoccupied with the idea that the U.S. was planning a nuclear attack to overthrow the Soviet government. With all of this uncertainty and suspicion swi...

Six Final Thoughts About The Marathon Project: 2:09 Isn’t 2:09 Anymore, Des Linden Says America Needs to Join the 2:19 Party, & More December 22, 2020 The Marathon Project is in the books, and with it, the 2020 racing season. It was an event American marathoners (and marathon fans) were desperate for after a year rocked by COVID-19, and it was a staggering success. Nothing can replicate the energy, importance, and emotions of the Olympic Marathon Trials held earlier this year, but this was the closest an American event has come to those feelings since that blustery day in Atlanta 10 months ...

If you’ve taken a country drive in central Texas, or if you’re familiar with the landscape of Fort Hood, you have noticed forested slopes of mesas and canyons. Most of those dark evergreen trees are cedars, also known as mountain cedar or Ashe juniper. About half of them are beginning to change color – and not because of a change in season. Soon, local allergy sufferers will wisely stock up on allergy antidotes and try to avoid the great outdoors. From about December to February cedar trees take advantage of any wind to get pollinated. The males, laden with amber-hued limbs, re...

English, but that's not stopping state representative steve smith from pushing his new proposal to ban state agencies from sending out mailings in any language except english. he calls it a cost-cutting measure, but others say it's a violation of the civil rights act. one exception, voting materials can still be mailed out in other languages, though smith's own maricopa county doesn't have the best track record there. the spanish version of an election notice last year listed november 8 as election day. that's two days after the election really occurred. finally, stephen colbert kind of, sor...