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Jackson, Mississippi, will remove a bronze statue of former President Andrew Jackson from City Hall grounds, the City Council voted Tuesday.Elected officials of Mississippi's capital city voted 5-1 to relocate the monument honoring its namesake. Councilman Ashby Foote, the only Republican on the council, dissented, according to NBC affiliate WLBT in Jackson.Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba,…

As George Floyd told Minneapolis police officers that he couldn't breathe more than 20 times in the moments before he died, the officer who pressed his knee against Floyd's neck dismissed his pleas, saying "it takes a heck of a lot of oxygen to talk," according to transcripts of body camera video recordings made public…

(CNN)Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner thrust himself into the national spotlight Wednesday with his decision to cancel the contract for the Texas Republican Party to hold its state convention in the ci…

Perhaps most tangibly, Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos have threatened to withhold funding from schools that don’t offer a full slate of in-person classes. Vice President Mike Pence said the administration would work with Congress on the next coronavirus relief bill to give states “a strong incentive and encouragement to get kids back to…

The Supreme Court’s decision on Wednesday to allow employers and colleges to opt out of providing free birth control coverage weighed heavily on one Loyola University Chicago graduate.Christina Frasik, 24, who graduated from the Jesuit Catholic university in 2018, said that the Court’s ruling will disproportionately impact marginalized students who already have trouble obtaining contraceptive…