The Latest Breaking News from America

India-US ties under Biden got weaker, says Indian-American former national security aide of Trump

WASHINGTON: The US-India relationship has become weaker under the Biden administration, according to Indian-American Kash Patel, who served as the chief of staff to the acting United States Secretary of Defence in the last few weeks of the previous Trump administration.

The Times of India · Feb 22, 2022

America is about to experience a ‘Pluto return’ – here’s what astrologers say you should expect

The Pluto return occurs every 248 years, and historically brings about transformative change

The Independent UK · Feb 21, 2022

'Squaw' still shows up in more than 100 California location names. A proposed law would ban it

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Two California lawmakers have proposed removing the word "squaw," a slur against Native American women, from all geographic features and place names in the state.

Tribune News Service · Feb 21, 2022

Kmart is down to its last 4 stores in the US

AVENEL, New Jersey — On a busy stretch of Route 35 near Rahway, New Jersey, one of the nation's last Kmart stores looks like a relic from the past. Its big red K is faded and cracked. Inside this most American of retail stores, popular for K Cafe luncheonettes and…

The Philadelphia Inquirer · Feb 21, 2022

A drug for pregnant women doesn’t work, according to the FDA. A company is selling it anyway

LOS ANGELES — American babies are at far higher risk of dying before their first birthdays than those in almost any other wealthy country. A big reason for those deaths, more than 21,000 each year, is that too many are born too soon.

Los Angeles Times · Feb 21, 2022

Laura Coates’ fight for fairness

CNN legal analyst and former prosecutor on why conservatives fear empowered Black women within the justice system

Salon · Feb 21, 2022

A decade after Trayvon Martin’s killing, ‘Being Black in America still comes at a great risk’

MIAMI — Sybrina Fulton is exhausted.

Miami Herald · Feb 21, 2022

US & UK teams scrapping Native mascots

Americans weren't the only ones who've had to rebrand after racial stereotying of Native groups for sports

Salon · Feb 21, 2022

Why France helped the Founding Fathers

Benjamin Franklin knew how to exploit France's snuff craze to get the funds and weapons the Continental Army needed

Salon · Feb 21, 2022

What we haven't learned from endless war

Two decades of war in Iraq and Afghanistan had little effect on daily life in America. That tells us way too much

Salon · Feb 21, 2022