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The suit comes amid an ongoing Justice Department civil rights investigation into the encounter between the sheriff's deputies and the men in January.

USA Track and Field announced that Hines died Saturday. No cause of death was provided.

The bills were introduced after NBC News exposed problems that make it harder for teens in the foster care system to graduate from high school.

Tameeka Jackson-Smith told NBC News her son, Shawn Jackson, and her husband, Renzo Smith, 36, were killed in the shooting, which left five others injured, according to police.

The unemployment rate increased from 4.4% in April to 5.3% in May for Black women.

The children of the victim, identified as Ajike “AJ” Owens, were playing in Ocala when, attorney Ben Crump said, the woman “began yelling at them to get off her land and calling them racial slurs.”

The activist and philosopher said running for president is a step toward “truth and justice.”

Tyler James Williams said such speculation "contributes to the anxiety a lot of queer and queer questioning people feel when they fear living in their truth."

In a class-action lawsuit, six students say the state is chronically underfunding and diminishing Florida A&M, its only public HBCU, using “separate but equal” tactics.

Brooklyn Sudano opens up about her mother's life beyond the lights in her new documentary, “Love to Love You, Donna Summer.”

The desegregation orders fit into a broader body of civil rights work that is examining jails, police departments and hate crimes in the state, according to the Justice Department.