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Bernard LaFayette, who died Thursday, laid the foundations of the Selma, Alabama, campaign that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act. He was a Freedom Rider and helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
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Firings, resignations and diversions to the president’s priorities have left elite counterterrorism and counterintelligence units stretched thin, current and former officials say.
For some Democrats, generational change comes with a cringey social media past.
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The parent company of Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus is closing more of its department stores as it focuses on its most profitable businesses and trims debt during its Chapter 11 bankruptcy restructuring
Also, a weak jobs report. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.
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The move comes as President Trump is ratcheting up his rhetorical assault on Cuba’s leadership.
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The president has said he plans to shut down the center for two years starting this summer for a “complete rebuilding.”
The Florida bar said that it had “erroneously” made that assertion, disclosed in a letter last month, and that no investigation into Ms. Halligan was pending.
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A woman and her aunt were found dead after they went hiking Wednesday, and an elderly woman was found dead in a cellar at her home.
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Millions of people from Texas to the Great Lakes are under some risk of heavy rain, strong winds or hail on Friday, forecasters warned. Two people were killed in Oklahoma on Thursday night.