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The process to redraw Florida's 28 congressional districts has created some red hot political and legal issues. Governor DeSantis has decided to play personal politics with at least three of the congressional districts. Two of those districts are historically Black districts currently held by Black Democrats, U.S. Reps. Al Lawson of North Florida and Val Demings of Orlando.

A Twin Cities mother says she wants answers after her son’s teacher cut his hair without her permission.

Vice President Kamala Harris is set to return to her native state of California on Monday for a series of events meant to showcase her leadership, as the White House struggles to reach an American electorate largely unconvinced of the Biden administration's progress.

Regulators at the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are fully aware that Alzheimer’s disease is a devastating disease that affects more than 6 million Americans, 80% of whom are Medicare beneficiaries. Among Americans 65 and older, Blacks have the highest percentage of Alzheimer’s disease, 13.8%, according to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In fact, the Alzheimer’s Association reports that older Blacks are twice as likely to have Alzheimer’s disease than whites.

National Urban League President & CEO Marc Morial said factions of state and federal lawmakers, working in concert with shady political operatives and violent extremists, are dangerously close to dismantling American democracy and establishing autocratic rule.

Air passengers in the US have been removing their Covid-19 face coverings after a federal judge ruled that the government's mask mandate on commercial planes was unlawful.

Biden administration officials found themselves straddling an uncomfortable line in their quest to end the Covid-19 pandemic Monday -- celebrating a return to near-normalcy as they hosted scores of unmasked children for the White House Easter Egg Roll and then watching one of their final lines of defense against the virus fall hours later when a federal judge in Florida struck down the federal mask mandate for airlines, trains and mass transit.

In a recent comment on the "Pod Save America" podcast," press secretary Jen Psaki said student loan cancellation via a potential Biden executive order was "still on the table." Biden extended the pause on federal student loan repayments through August 31.

Senate Democrats face strong political headwinds in this year's midterm elections, but they have maintained -- and in some cases, super-charged -- their fundraising in pivotal states, new campaign finance reports show.

The Department of Health and Human Services said its increasing outreach to communities of color to encourage enrollment in free and low-cost health care, and the agency will address the maternal mortality crisis that disproportionately impacts Black and Native families, including by working with states to extend postpartum coverage in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.