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Scientists say such tests could be available in a few years, speeding research for treatments and providing a diagnosis for dementia patients who want to know if they have Alzheimer’s disease.

Many activists will not tolerate a Democratic-controlled Senate that allows Republicans to block civil-rights legislation next year.

The use of the atomic weapon must be seen as a continuation and a start: the nuclear continuation of the conventional terror bombing of Japanese civilians, and the start of a new “cold war.”

Policing is not the only kind of state violence. In the mid-twentieth century, city governments, backed by federal money, demolished hundreds of Black neighborhoods in the name of urban renewal.

The planned closing of Mercy Hospital underscores the dramatic loss of maternity services in Chicago over the past year — reflecting the failure of local government agencies to adequately fund critical services in vulnerable communities.

The Disney Plus visual album is an opulent portrait of Black pride

Earlier this week, four labor leaders voted against including Medicare for All in the Democratic Party platform.

Demonstrators massed in Clayton, Missouri Thursday, August 21st, to demand a Special Prosecutor investigate the police killing of Ferguson teenager Mike Brown. They charged St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch has a long-standing and personal bias in favor of the police and should be removed from the investigation. Also on Thursday, NAACP President Cornell William Brooks said, "It is impossible to believe" McCulloch can be "unbiased in this case."