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Conservatives of color have lofty expectations for Trump's second term

Jan. 25, 2025 00:06 AM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Delivering his first address as a reinaugurated president, Donald Trump spoke directly to communities that had historically shunned his party. “To the Black and Hispanic communities, I want to thank you for the tremendous outpouring of love and trust that you...

New York county agrees to redraw voting lines that lawsuit said disenfranchised residents of color

Jan. 23, 2025 19:50 PM EST

EAST MEADOW, N.Y. (AP) — A New York county has agreed to redraw its voting map after a lawsuit claimed its political boundaries disenfranchised residents of color. Nassau County reached a settlement Thursday in which the suburban region, located just east of New York City borough...

Trump administration shuts down White House Spanish-language page and social media

Jan. 22, 2025 12:14 PM EST

Within hours of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the new administration took down the Spanish-language version of the official White House website. The site — currently https://www.whitehouse.gov/es/ — now gives users an “Error 404” message. It also included a “Go...

Mexico expands regional migrant aid to Latin America as Trump inauguration nears

Jan. 17, 2025 19:17 PM EST

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico agreed Friday to expand support to other Latin American and Caribbean nations as part of a regional migratory response, days before U.S. President-elect Donald Trump takes office with a promise to carry out mass deportations. The aid was announced by...

Democrats' crisis of the future: The biggest states that back them are shrinking

Jan. 16, 2025 12:19 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Texas and Florida are growing rapidly. California, Illinois and New York are shrinking. With America's population shifting to the South, political influence is seeping from reliably Democratic states to areas controlled by Republicans. Coming out of a...

Feds' suit claims Pennsylvania city's 'at-large' election system is biased against Hispanic voters

Jan. 08, 2025 17:14 PM EST

The U.S. Justice Department wants a judge to declare that a Pennsylvania city's method of electing council members citywide instead of by districts has illegally diluted the political power of its growing Hispanic population, arguing in a lawsuit that Hazleton is violating the federal Voting Rights...

US census data shows how Middle Eastern and Hispanic residents differ in racial identity

Dec. 25, 2024 00:04 AM EST

As the U.S. Census Bureau gets public feedback about how it should tally people into new race and ethnicity groups, the agency has released new research reflecting how U.S. residents from different backgrounds regard their racial and ethnic identities. Earlier this year, the U.S....

Next North Carolina governor names 7 Cabinet secretaries, with 2 current department heads

Dec. 16, 2024 22:49 PM EST

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Democratic Gov.-elect Josh Stein announced his choices for a majority of his Cabinet positions Monday before he takes office next month, with two of the seven revealed department secretaries being holdovers from outgoing Gov. Roy Cooper's administration. ...

The DNC chair candidates discuss Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and winning Latino voters

Dec. 07, 2024 09:56 AM EST

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Four people are running to be the next Democratic National Committee chair, looking to take on the task of reinvigorating a party demoralized by a second loss to President-elect Donald Trump. Others may still get into the race as the party reckons with the...

Nearly 30% of US drugstores closed in one decade, study shows

Dec. 03, 2024 18:10 PM EST

Nearly three out of 10 U.S. drugstores that were open during the previous decade had closed by 2021, new research shows. Black and Latino neighborhoods were most vulnerable to the retail pharmacy closures, which can chip away at already-limited care options in those communities,...