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McDonald's is the latest company to roll back diversity goals

Jan. 06, 2025 18:55 PM EST

Four years after launching a push for more diversity in its ranks, McDonald’s is ending some of its diversity practices, citing a U.S. Supreme Court decision that outlawed affirmative action in college admissions. McDonald's is the latest big company to shift its tactics in the...

Diné College president remembered as a tireless advocate for Native American students

Jan. 06, 2025 16:15 PM EST

TSAILE, Ariz. (AP) — Charles “Monty” Roessel, a former director of the federal Bureau of Indian Education and president of the first tribal college to be established in the United States, has died. He was 63. Diné College announced that Roessel died Monday while surrounded by...

McDonald’s is ending some of its diversity practices in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court affirmative action ruling

Jan. 06, 2025 15:34 PM EST
CHICAGO (AP) — McDonald’s is ending some of its diversity practices in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court affirmative action ruling.

Pope names like-minded ally Cardinal McElroy as Washington archbishop

Jan. 06, 2025 14:50 PM EST

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis on Monday named Cardinal Robert McElroy of San Diego as the archbishop of Washington, tapping one of his most progressively like-minded allies to head the Catholic Church in the U.S. capital at the start of Donald Trump's second administration. At a press...

San Francisco Bay Area police department mired in racist text scandal agrees to reforms

Jan. 06, 2025 13:06 PM EST

ANTIOCH, Calif. (AP) — A San Francisco Bay Area police department under federal investigation for racist and sexist texts has agreed to hire a consultant to update its policies, procedures and training on various topics, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. According to the...

Jimmy Carter's funeral begins by tracing 100 years from rural Georgia to the world stage

Jan. 04, 2025 22:54 PM EST

ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter 's extended public farewell began Saturday in Georgia, with the 39th U.S. president’s flag-draped casket tracing his long arc from the Depression-era South and family farming business to the pinnacle of American political power and decades as a global humanitarian. ...

Asian singers and actors who relocated to Asia see global crossover opportunity

Jan. 04, 2025 12:23 PM EST

Twenty years after he was a young, struggling actor in Toronto, Thomas Lo is now the one giving young Asian actors their big breaks. He just had to go to Hong Kong to do it. The Chinese Canadian has been the creative director of one of the island city's biggest TV broadcasting...

Man accused of attacking Colorado reporter has had mental health issues for years, lawyer says

Jan. 03, 2025 17:42 PM EST

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — A man accused of attacking a Colorado reporter after questioning whether he was a citizen and saying “This is Trump's America now” has had mental health issues for years, his lawyer said. Patrick Egan, 39, has been charged with assault, committing a...

Ex-deputies in Virginia are charged with murder over inmate's death while restrained

Jan. 03, 2025 17:01 PM EST

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Three former sheriff's deputies in Virginia have been charged with second-degree murder over the death of a man they restrained at a local jail last year, prosecutors announced Friday. A special grand jury returned the indictments after meeting three...

AP PHOTOS: A lantern workshop in China makes snakes cute for the Lunar New Year

Jan. 02, 2025 04:54 AM EST

WEIFANG, China (AP) — The brightly lit snake lanterns are topped with oversized heads that don’t fit the usual image of the slithery reptile — they are cute. It's the year of the snake in the Chinese zodiac, and in an era when cuteness reigns supreme, a workshop in eastern...