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James Hamblin reacts in his latest “Paging Dr. Hamblin” column: You have a great opportunity to do an essentially risk-free thing to play your part in saving thousands of lives. And there’s really no opting out. Whatever you choose, it affects everyone. It’s a personal decision in the same …

A Maryland man is currently being held without bond after allegedly firing a shotgun in the direction of a group of Donald Trump supporters as they drove by in a pickup truck. CBS Baltimore reports that 50-year-old Douglas Kuhn, who was putting up a Black Lives Matter sign in his …

Working in the office usually means having the luxury of multiple monitors and other peripherals to achieve peak efficiency. Now that you’re working from home, your schedule may be more convenient, but you probably don’t have the same setup as you did before. A typical laptop screen leaves a lot …

Photo: GABRIEL BOUYS (Getty Images) In honor of the late Kobe Bryant, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture has displayed the jersey he wore during the 2008 NBA Finals. According to CBS News, the jersey was displayed as part of its “Sports: Leveling the Playing Field,” …

This note is to kick off a resumed set of chronicles in the “Our Towns” series, after  time away for a long Atlantic project on the origins of this era’s public-health and economic disaster. The results of that project are here: “Three Weeks That Changed Everything.” If you’re wondering, the …

From the creators of hit BET+ film Sacrifice, Footage Films, comes a new captivating thriller TRIGGER. The original film tells the story of Trey Mass, who is finally home from prison after a ten-year sentence. With nowhere else to go he visits his brother Collin. Collin’s wife, Vanessa, is not …

0 Kevin Richardson of the Exonerated Five (Image via Syracuse University) Kevin Richardson became cemented in history when he and four other young boys were wrongfully convicted of sexual assault in a high-profile case dubbed as the “Central Park Jogger Case.” After decades of fighting in court, the five men …

In 2018, “Permit Patty” threatened to call the police on an 8-year-old Black girl for selling water on a San Francisco sidewalk.Photo: CBS SF Imagine an America where you can call the authorities on a Karen for calling the authorities on you just for existing while Black. San Francisco, Calif., …

In early April, Paul Hiley was kicking back in the executive suite at Desert King International LLC, gazing out the window at the San Diego sunshine and daydreaming about his golf game. California had issued its initial stay-at-home order for COVID-19, but apart from the hand sanitizer around the office, …

Mildred Madison, 94, wasn’t about to let anyone suppress her vote. The Michigan resident told CNN that she didn’t receive her absentee ballot, so she decided to vote early and in person. To do so, she had to travel more than 600 miles — 300 each way — in order …