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Rosenwald Schools helped educate Black students in segregated South. Could a national park follow? 08/06/2023 04:33pm • ST. GEORGE, S.C. (AP) — As Ralph James settled into the restored, highbacked desk at the segregated school he attended in rural South Carolina, he remembered the old school bell, the cascading light through tall windows, the Christmas pageant and the basketball court just outside. It was in school Ukrainians move to North Dakota for oil field jobs to help families facing war back home 08/06/2023 12:35am • DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) — Maksym Bunchukov remembers hearing rockets explode in Zaporizhzhia as the war in Ukraine began. “It was terrible,” he said. He and his wife sent their adult daughter west to Lviv for safety and joined her later with their pets. Now, about 18 months after the war br Vermont’s flood-wracked capital city ponders a rebuild with one eye on climate change 08/05/2023 08:26am • MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A beloved bookstore in Vermont's small capital city moved across the street to a new spot farther from the Winooski River after an ice jam sent river water into the store in 1992. A nearby office supply and gift store did the same in 2011 because it liked a different space t Landslides kill 3 at base camp of a Hindu temple in northern India and 17 others are still missing 08/05/2023 01:40am • LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Torrential rains triggered a landslide at a base camp of a revered Hindu temple in the north Indian state of Uttarakhand, killing three people, officials said Saturday. At least 17 others were reported missing in the village of Gaurikund in Uttarakhand state, said Nandan Sing Thousands overwhelm New York's Union Square for streamer giveaway, tossing chairs and pounding cars 08/04/2023 09:36pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A crowd of thousands that packed Manhattan's Union Square for a popular livestreamer's hyped giveaway got out of hand Friday afternoon, with some clambering on vehicles, hurling chairs and throwing punches, leaving police struggling to rein in the chaos. Aerial TV news footage show Oppressive heat, wildfires expected to worsen globally, experts say 08/04/2023 05:17pm • Blistering heat, large wildfires and warming oceans from North America across Europe to North Africa have caught hundreds of millions of people in dozens of countries unprepared this year. Experts warn it will only get worse in the short term, even if critical changes are made immediately. In ear Cleanup from chemical spill and fire that shut down I-24 in Tennessee could take days 08/04/2023 02:28pm • CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Cleanup from a chemical spill and fire near Interstate 24 in Tennessee will take several days, after the interstate was shut down and nearby homes evacuated overnight on Thursday. Emergency responders were called to the scene just after 9 p.m. when a tractor-trailer carry The UN cut their food aid this summer. These Palestinians now struggle to find their next meal 08/04/2023 12:50pm • JENIN, West Bank (AP) — Except for a small bag of lentils and the orange juice she reserves for guests, there is no food in Ashwaq Abu al-Wafa’s house in the northern West Bank city of Jenin. Ever since the U.N. cut her food aid in June, she has fallen behind on rent. All her money now goes to Kenyan doctors say civilians were shot, and some killed, while running from police during protests 08/04/2023 09:45am • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Doctors in Kenya say the bullet wounds that civilians received during opposition protests in two counties last month show that most were shot while running from police or trying to surrender, according to a report released Friday. The report by the Kenya Medical Association, South Korea detains suspect in high school teacher's stabbing a day after separate attack wounded 14 08/04/2023 06:57am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean police detained a man suspected of stabbing a high school teacher with a knife Friday in the city of Daejeon. The stabbing follows a separate, apparently random attack on Thursday in which 14 people were wounded near a busy subway station in Seongnam. Officia A baby was found in the rubble of a US raid in Afghanistan. But who exactly was killed and why? 08/04/2023 12:05am • The Afghan villager was afraid the American soldiers might come. And one cool night in fall, as his children lay asleep, helicopters roared overhead. At the first sound of gunshots, he yelled for his wife and 10 children to take cover. His young daughter grabbed her sleeping infant sister off the be South Korean police pursue suspect in 2nd stabbing attack in 2 days 08/03/2023 10:37pm • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A man rammed a car onto a sidewalk Thursday in the South Korean city of Seongnam, then stepped out of the vehicle and began stabbing people at a shopping mall, leaving at least 14 people wounded. Just hours after South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Friday called for 'Brazen and absurd' mall shooting sends DC man behind bars for 25 years 08/03/2023 10:35pm • A D.C. man who had hopes of moving him and his four sons out of the region will instead spend the next 25 years behind bars after he was sentenced for a murder described as both "brazen" and "absurd" by a Prince George's County, Maryland, judge. In August of 2022, 20-year-old Darrion Herring was These Are the Cheapest Grocery Stores in the U.S. 08/03/2023 08:00pm • Despite food prices growing at a slower rate than last year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, they're still above historical averages, leaving many Americans pinching pennies. If you're looking for ways to cut costs beyond eating at home and meal planning, it may help to switch to a Airbnb profit jumps to $650 million in 2Q, as bookings increase and rental rates hold steady 08/03/2023 07:42pm • Airbnb said Thursday its second-quarter profit jumped more than 70% over last summer, to $650 million, as revenue rose on strong bookings for summer-vacation rentals. The San Francisco company said bookings grew 11% over the same period last year. Still, they were a bit lighter than analysts expecte