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FILE- In this 1955 file photo, Carolyn Bryant poses for a photo. A grand jury in Mississippi has declined to indict the white woman, Carolyn Donham, known as Carolyn Bryant, whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago, despite revelations about an unserved arrest warrant and a newly revealed memoir by the woman, a prosecutor said Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022.(AP Photo/Gene Herrick, File)

A grand jury declined to indict a woman whose accusations set off Emmett Till killing

A grand jury declined to indict the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till in 1955. The grand jury determined that there was not sufficient evidence.

FILE - Former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore announces his run for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate on June 20, 2019, in Montgomery, Ala. A federal jury awarded Republican Moore $8.2 million in damages Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, after finding that a Democratic-aligned super PAC defamed him in an advertisement during the 2017 U.S. Senate race in Alabama. (AP Photo/Julie Bennett, File)

A Democratic-aligned super PAC is ordered to pay Roy Moore $8.2M in a defamation suit

A federal jury found that a Democratic-aligned super PAC defamed the Alabama Republican in a TV ad recounting sexual misconduct accusations during his failed 2017 U.S. Senate bid.

FILE - Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., speaks during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on Oct. 19, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Child welfare officials in Oregon will stop using an algorithm to help decide which families are investigated by social workers, opting instead for an entirely new process that officials said will make more racially equitable decisions. Wyden said he had long been concerned about the algorithms used by his state’s child welfare system and reached out to the department again following an AP story to ask questions about racial bias – a prevailing concern with the growing use of artificial intelligence tools in child protective services. (Mandel Ngan/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Oregon is dropping an artificial intelligence tool used in child welfare system

Officials will stop using an algorithm to help decide which families are investigated by social workers, opting instead for a process that officials say will make more racially equitable decisions.

Russian President Vladimir Putin gives a speech at a concert marking the eighth anniversary of Russia's annexation of Crimea at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow on March 18, 2022. (Photo by Alexander VILF / POOL / AFP) (Photo by ALEXANDER VILF/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Putin's puffy coat and Zelenskyy's T-shirts show the power of fashion in war

President Vladimir Putin's coat and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy's T-shirts can be considered political statements.

Prosecutors say Paul Manafort gets special treatment during his pretrial confinement and there is no reason to delay the case against him.

Prosecutors Object To Manafort Bid To Delay Trial, Saying He's Treated Like 'VIP'

Prosecutors argue there's no reason to delay a trial for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. A judge has ordered him to be moved closer to the court in which he'll appear.

The state Department of Environmental Protection added air-quality monitors outside Erie Coke in July. One is seen on Sept. 11, 2019. Ed Mahon / PA Post

COVID-19 Prompts EPA To Relax Enforcement, But State And Local Governments Do Most Of The Oversight

Federal agency said new policy doesn't mean facilities can exceed allowed pollution limits

This oblique view of the Himalayan landscape was captured by a KH-9 Hexagon satellite on Dec. 20, 1975, on the border between eastern Nepal and Sikkim, India.

I Spy, Via Spy Satellite: Melting Himalayan Glaciers

Scientists are using old spy satellite images to measure the effects of climate change. They're finding that glaciers in the Himalayas are melting twice as fast as they were a few decades earlier.

Mariner East 2 pipeline construction along Zinns Mill Road in Lebanon County August 24, 2018.

Sunoco Expects Hybrid Mariner East 2 To Start Operating By Year's End

STATE IMPACT PENNSYLVANIA - Sunoco's Mariner East 2 pipeline across Pennsylvania will begin operating in the current quarter, the company's parent, Energy Transfer, said on Thursday.

Harold Levy, pictured in 2015, is best known as the former head of New York City's public schools.

'Harold Believed In Me': Remembering A College Access Advocate And New York Schools Leader

Harold Levy, the former head of New York City public schools, worked to give all students access to college. "Harold wanted to know us, he wanted to hear us," one student says.

Delta Airlines passenger aircrafts are seen on the tarmac of John F. Kennedy International Airpot in New York,on December 24, 2021. - Over 2,000 flights have been cancelled and thousands delayed around the world as the highly infectious Omicron variant disrupts holiday travel. (Photo by Yuki IWAMURA / AFP) (Photo by YUKI IWAMURA/AFP via Getty Images)

Delta updates its statement calling COVID a 'seasonal virus' after a backlash

The airline changed its announcement about the end of the federal mask mandate after a firestorm of criticism from public health experts who called it inaccurate and misleading.

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