Cicely Tyson, the pioneering Black actor who gained an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropperβs wife in βSounder,β a Tony Award in 2013 at age 88 and touched TV viewersβ hearts in βThe Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,β died Thursday at age 96.
Former Carolina Panthers head coach Ron Rivera is officially cancer free, according to his daughter Courtney Rivera.
President Joe Biden on Thursday ordered government health insurance markets to reopen for a special sign-up window, offering uninsured Americans a haven as the spread of COVID-19 remains dangerously high and vaccines arenβt yet widely available.
A tornado with winds approaching 85 miles per hour touched down in Florida's capital early on Wednesday, damaging its airport and taking the local radar system offline briefly.
A new coronavirus variant identified in South Africa has been found in the United States for the first time, with two cases diagnosed in South Carolina, state health officials said Thursday.
Governor Roy Cooper says the North Carolina Modified Stay-At-Home Order will be extended until at least Sunday, February 28th, requiring people to stay home from 10 p.m. until 5 a.m.
Cloris Leachman, Oscar-winning actor also known as TVβs Phyllis Lindstrom, dies at 94, publicist says.
Across most of America, GameStop is just a place to buy a video game. On Wall Street, though, itβs become a battleground where swarms of smaller investors see themselves making an epic stand against the 1%.
Belk, the North Carolina-based department store chain which has catered to generations of shoppers for nearly 190 years, announced Tuesday that it will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
House Democrats delivered the impeachment case against Donald Trump to the Senate for the start of his historic trial, but Republican senators were easing off their criticism of the former president and shunning calls to convict him over the deadly siege at the U.S. Capitol.
Officials say a tornado left significant storm damage just north of Birmingham, leaving the area with crumpled buildings and downed trees. The National Weather Service in Birmingham says officials are evaluating the damage to determine the strength of the tornado, which hit the Fultondale area of Jefferson County late Monday night.
President Joe Biden signed an order Monday reversing a Trump-era Pentagon policy that largely barred transgender individuals from serving in the military.
A Black woman who was fatally shot by a North Carolina police officer nearly six years ago is one of nearly 90 people honored through an NFL program that recognizes victims of systemic racism and police violence.
The Senate plans to begin former President Trump's trial next month. The article will be presented Monday and Senators will be sworn in as jurors Tuesday.
For two Virginia police officers who posed for a photo during the deadly U.S. Capitol insurrection, the reckoning has been swift and public: They were identified, charged with crimes and arrested.
Straining under record numbers of COVID-19 patients, hundreds of the nationβs intensive care units are running out of space and supplies and competing to hire temporary traveling nurses at soaring rates. Many of the facilities are clustered in the South and West.
Anti-abortion leaders across America were elated a year ago when Donald Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to appear in person at their highest-profile annual event, the March for Life held every January.
Officials with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services say a new strain of coronavirus has been detected in the state.
Larry King, the suspenders-sporting everyman whose broadcast interviews with world leaders, movie stars and ordinary Joes helped define American conversation for a half-century, died Saturday. He was 87.
Press Secretary Jen Psaki and National Economic Council Director Brian Deese held a White House news briefing on January 22nd to discuss President Biden's executive orders related to the economy.
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