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Border bill fails; bipartisan effort collapses amid political tensions

Disappointment over the defeat of the border bill as bipartisan lawmakers aimed to tackle the border crisis. President Biden and the White House respond.

Top News · Feb 7, 2024

‘It’s historic and we need to save it:’ Vital piece of Black history burns up in Mill Fire

When the Mill Fire tore through the Northern California town of Weed, it not only claimed the lives of two residents and destroyed dozens of homes, it laid waste to a little-known but historically important piece of Black history.

Tribune News Service · Sep 5, 2022

‘Everybody on that street knew everybody.’ Wildfire destroys historic Black section of Weed

WEED, Calif. — It was a company town, anchored by a lumber mill and a nearby neighborhood populated by Black workers recruited from the South a century ago to work in the mill.

Tribune News Service · Sep 3, 2022