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Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images The Los Angeles Lakers put away the Miami Heat on Sunday to win the franchise’s 17th NBA championship. The Lakers are now tied with the Boston Celtics for the most titles of any club, and remain the team with most championship victories in the…

In the 1990s, I was in my 70s and working as a field staffer for California State Assemblywoman Dion Aroner, out of a one-person satellite office in Richmond. I had many meetings with lots of people on various subjects, and one of those was the Rosie the Riveter/World War II…

Avocado farm owners accused of murder and other abuses The British owners of an avocado farm in Kenya that supplies leading chains including Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Lidl are being sued over a series of alleged human rights abuses. The Sunday Times says the accusations include battering a 28-year-old man to…

This has probably been Joe Biden’s best week since Super Tuesday. Donald Trump’s reelection campaign is imploding, Biden’s lead is expanding (by 10.2 percent, according to FiveThirtyEight’s poll of polls), and he appears to have a sizable advantage in key swing states. Georgia and Texas may very well be in…

Two weeks ago, the White House held an event with more than 200 attendees where President Donald Trump formally announced his nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. Since then, the coronavirus has sent the president to the hospital, infected some political allies and many of his top-level…

In an expansive lot in northwest Detroit, at the corner of 6 Mile and San Juan, roughly 100 people gathered on a Sunday afternoon in August for a pair of events. The first was an “All Black Lives Matter” rally. The second was the weekly meeting for Detroit Will Breathe,…

Last month, a bunch of users tweeted about how Twitter‘s image cropping algorithm seems to have a bias towards fair-skinned people. When users posted uncropped images containing both light and dark-skinned people, the social network’s algorithm often showed the light-skinned person in the preview. Trying a horrible experiment… Which will…

In 2016, Republicans in the senate falsely asserted that United States policy is to never appoint a new justice to the supreme court in an election year, as an excuse not to allow Barack Obama to appoint Antonin Scalia’s successor. So it makes a lot of sense that plenty of…

If you’re like most people, you probably missed the news Thursday evening that the House had passed H.R. 4447, the Clean Energy Jobs and Innovation Act. The nearly 900-page piece of legislation itself isn’t much to write home about—several different energy-related bills hastily smashed together into a $135 billion package,…

Mike Memoli3d ago / 12:55 PM UTCWASHINGTON — Former President Barack Obama announced a final round of 2020 endorsements Friday, backing not only a handful of Democratic challengers in Senate races that could tip control of the chamber next year but also dozens state legislative candidates that could shape redistricting…