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Karine Jean-Pierre will become the new White House press secretary when Jen Psaki departs her role next week, President Joe Biden announced in a statement Thursday, becoming the first Black and out LGBTQ person to hold the position.

U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson said he plans to sentence the disgraced cop to 20 to 25 years in prison for violating Floyd’s civil rights.

Reps. Adams and Williams are leading on a series of bills focused on assisting borrowers with student loan debt. High student loan debt disproportionately is carried by Black women who then disproportionately earn less money which the members say continues to drive the wealth gap.

After 25 years working as a White House correspondent, April Ryan has seen it all.

President Joe Biden on Tuesday said a woman's right to have an abortion is "fundamental" in his first statement following a published draft of a Supreme Court opinion that would strike down Roe v. Wade.

The Atlanta-area district attorney who's investigating former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election said her office will look into the fake Electoral College certifications that Trump backers put forward in Georgia.

“The mental health of Black American youth “was in crisis long before COVID-19 devastated the world, but no national public health crisis was called.”

While honoring the two, the WHCA failed to acknowledge National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) President and CEO Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., who inexplicably was seated in the back of the room out of the view of most attendees including family members of the honorees and President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden.

More Americans than ever before have health coverage thanks to the Affordable Care Act, which is helping send the nation's uninsured rate to near record lows, the Biden administration announced Friday.

"Typically when people are doing reference checks they're not really digging for dirt," said Hugo Malan, president of Kelly Science, Engineering, Technology & Telecom, a division of workplace solutions firm Kelly. "There are two primary roles: one is simply to confirm the truth of what is represented on the resume. The other is to understand more about the person being hired: if their skills, their character, truly are a fit for the role."