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North Carolina’s Asheville City Council apologized for its role in slavery and racial discrimination, voting unanimously to provide reparations in the form of community investments to help Black residents.The council voted 7-0 on Tuesday night on the measure to mitigate racial disparities. The reparations will not provide direct cash payments, as some have suggested, but…

July 4, 2020 | 9:00am Enlarge Image North Korea's Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui Luong Thai Linh/Pool Photo via AP North Korean diplomats don’t need to sit down with the US for talks because they would merely be a “political tool” for Washington, the country’s state media agency said. North Korea’s Vice Foreign Minister…

Closing the border with China crippled the regime’s few remaining methods, legal and otherwise, for bringing in much-needed foreign currency.Masked commuters at Pyongyang Station in Pyongyang, North Korea, in April.Credit...Kyodo, via ReutersJuly 4, 2020, 5:00 a.m. ETSEOUL, South Korea — On New Year’s Day, North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, called for a “frontal breakthrough to…

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea does not feel the need to have talks with the United States, which would be nothing more than “a political tool” for Washington, a senior North Korean diplomat said on Saturday, ahead of a U.S. envoy’s visit to South Korea. FILE PHOTO: Hyon Song Wol, head of the North Korean…

A North Carolina racetrack has lost some partnerships after its owner advertised “Bubba Rope” for sale online days after NASCAR said a noose had been found in the garage stall of Bubba Wallace, the top series’ only Black driver.A concrete company and a driver series ended their partnerships Friday with the half-mile, dirt track 311…