Attorneys for the family of a Black teen who went missing during a July Fourth boat trip off the Mississippi coast say they would work with a local prosecutor’s office to inspect the contents of his cellphone amid an ongoing investigation.

The Trump administration has replaced an exhibit on slavery at the site of President George Washington’s home in Philadelphia with a version that historians say whitewashes the nation’s history.

Amazon says that the technology company will launch its new satellite internet service Amazon Leo in South Africa in 2027.

A federal appeals court has ended more than 60 years of federal oversight of a Louisiana school system that had been ordered to eradicate segregation.

Mahmoud Khalil is suing the federal government and several private groups for allegedly conspiring to suppress criticism of Israel.

The U.S. agency that oversees dozens of schools serving Native Americans is reporting more on-time high school graduations than ever.

A week ago, 18-year-old Nolan Xavier Wells took a boat trip with friends to celebrate the Fourth of July on an island off Mississippi’s Gulf Coast.

Three men who survived a fatal shooting involving federal immigration officers in Houston say no officer was threatened.

A new AP-NORC poll finds that many Jewish Americans feel unsafe in the United States, with a majority saying they feel less safe than they did before Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel.

Sikh organizations and local activists are organizing community screenings in India’s northern Punjab state of a movie set during its bloody insurgency.

Ashleigh Hallam teaches English at her local library in Indiana.

The son of a Mexican national fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Houston says he was a hardworking father who had been working toward a work permit after 35 years in the U.S. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was driving to a construction job Tuesday morning when he was killed.

Former Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan has been spared from prison for ushering a Mexican defendant out of her courtroom as Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents waited in the hallway.

Authorities have charged the leader of an Indian criminal group in connection with the assassination of a prominent Sikh leader in Canada.

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Egypt coach Hossam Hassan has waved a Palestinian flag on the pitch after his team's victory over Australia in the World Cup.

The Supreme Court has wrapped up a term with significant rulings on race and discrimination.

A Mississippi family whose 1-year-old child was killed when officers fired into a moving car are challenging police claims about the shooting.

Martial arts icon Bruce Lee, who was born in San Francisco, will become the first Chinese American in California history with an annual namesake day.

Washington Nationals pitcher Cade Cavalli apologized Wednesday for shouting “sit down, boy!”.

Photographs of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wearing lei from Hawaii during the Selma-to-Montgomery marches are now on display in Honolulu.

The great-grandson of the Chinese American at the center of the U.S. Supreme Court case that first established the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship praises the latest ruling.

The Andrew Carnegie Foundation has announced this year’s “Great Immigrants, Great Americans” honorees, including Citi CEO Jane Fraser and Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Hernan Diaz and Cristina Rivera Garza.

Jerry Esters proudly displays the American flag each day on his Detroit home.

Pride Month celebrations peaked with big parades in New York, San Francisco and some other cities on Sunday.

A new Mississippi law authorizes the state's top law enforcement agency to compile a list of immigrants illegally living in the state.

It's been six decades since the Voting Rights Act was enacted.

A standout at the World Cup, Deniz Undav is playing for Germany while representing his Yazidi and Kurdish heritage.

Thirty-eight journalists have died on the job while gathering news for The Associated Press over the years.

Native American tribes are marking the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Greasy Grass.

Charlie Brown's pen pal is finally revealed in the animated movie “Snoopy Unleashed,” coming to Apple TV in 2027.

A recently opened, first of its kind Chinese queer museum in San Francisco is already having an impact on the surrounding community.

A judge has barred the federal government from making arrests at immigration courts, a practice that took hold shortly after President Donald Trump took office last year.

The Rev. Al Sharpton is putting final touches on a new Harlem headquarters for his National Action Network organization.

The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition is wrapping up an oral history project in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The family of a 1-year-old boy killed by police in Mississippi is calling on authorities to release video of the shooting.

One of the few Black-owned banks in the U.S. is introducing a debit card aimed at helping single mothers who live in government subsidized housing escape poverty.

As people gathered to celebrate Juneteenth at events across the U.S., former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama welcomed the first visitors to his presidential center.

America's 250th birthday marks a milestone of resilience for Native Americans.

Detainees at an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades, known as “Alligator Alcatraz,” have been transferred to other facilities, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said, citing concerns related to the hurricane season.

Republican lawmakers in Georgia won’t redraw congressional and state legislative districts for the 2028 elections during a special session called by GOP Gov. Brian Kemp.

Contractors running Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities can rely more heavily on artificial intelligence tools to communicate with detainees and continue refusing to pay wages for detainees’ “voluntary work."

Iranian American demonstrators amassed outside Iran’s first World Cup match, waving the pre-revolutionary lion-and-sun flags banned inside the stadium and calling for change in Tehran.

A new AP-NORC/AAPI Data poll finds that most Asian American and Pacific Islander adults have experienced or witnessed some degree of upheaval because of the Trump administration’s heightened immigration policies.

The opening lyrics couldn’t be plainer: “I am from Bosnia; take me to America.”.

The Florida Supreme Court has allowed the use of a new U.S. House map drawn by Republicans in the midterm elections.

A new report alleges that mismanagement at a massive Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Texas produced unsafe conditions that contributed to detainees’ deaths and suffering even as millions of tax dollars were wasted on contractors.

Salt Lake City and its county have filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Department of Homeland Security’s plan to open a giant warehouse in the city that would be used to detain up to 10,000 immigrants.

Harvard University psychiatrist and author Robert Coles has died.

A national redistricting battle is about to enter a new phase.

Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament has been passionate about skateboarding since his teenage years in Montana.

A federal judge has struck down a Trump administration policy enacted after the shooting of two National Guard members that made it harder for immigrants from dozens of countries to stay and enter the country.

A Colorado court reversed homicide convictions against two paramedics on Thursday in the ketamine overdose death of Elijah McClain after the Black man was pinned down by police.

Republicans have won a partisan redistricting battle for Congress.

A federal judge is considering whether to throw out a jury’s guilty verdict against former Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan who was convicted of felony obstruction for helping an immigrant evade federal officers.

Immigrant detainees across at least 33 states allege in court documents that the government is failing to provide them with adequate medical care.

Britain’s interior minister accused activists of hijacking a teenager's murder to stir up violence after police were attacked at a protest.

The fatal stabbing of a British teenage who was handcuffed despite telling offices that he was wounded has sparked a debate about policing and race.

Former Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has clinched the Democratic nomination for New Mexico governor.

A South Carolina jury has found a store owner not guilty of murder in the 2023 shooting of a Black 14-year-old.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani did not attend an annual parade honoring Israel, breaking with a decades-long political custom because of his support of Palestinian rights.

Former Arcadia Mayor Eileen Wang has pleaded guilty to being an illegal agent of the Chinese government.

New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill has sent state police to establish designated protest zones and vehicle checkpoints outside an immigration detention center in Newark.

A federal immigration agent wanted in the shooting of a Venezuelan man during the Trump administration’s Minnesota crackdown has been arrested in Texas.

Louisiana lawmakers have passed a new congressional map to pick up a Republican seat while leaving the state with one of its two majority-Black House districts.

French lawmakers have voted to repeal a 17th-century law that governed enslaved people in France's colonies.

Stop AAPI Hate is an organization that rose to national prominence for its meticulous reports on anti-Asian hate incidents at the height of the pandemic.

Democratic members of Congress are visiting a federal immigration detention center in New Jersey where protesters have been demonstrating in recent days and asserting that detainees inside are on a hunger strike.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees are taking their own lives at a pace that’s unprecedented in the agency’s two-decade history, highlighting what experts call failures in care and oversight.

South Africa's government and Afrikaner advocacy groups reject the notion of a humanitarian emergency affecting white people in the country.

The mayor of Minneapolis says the police chief hired to oversee reforms after George Floyd’s killing has chosen to resign rather than face discipline for interfering with an investigation into his conduct.

The South Carolina Senate has rejected President Donald Trump’s push to redraw the state’s congressional districts in hopes Republicans could gain an extra seat.

Federal judges have temporarily blocked Alabama’s plan to use new congressional districts that could help Republicans win an additional seat in the midterm elections.

The head of an inquiry into antisemitism in Australia has condemned online hatred and bigotry targeting Jewish witnesses.

Pope Leo XIV has made a historic apology for the role the Holy See played in legitimizing slavery.

Court records reveal new details about one of two teenagers who killed three people at a San Diego mosque.

Former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil's lawyers say they'll ask the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene after a federal appeals court declined to reconsider a decision that put the government a step closer to deporting him.

Advocates for telling the whole truth of American history are celebrating the legacy of Ona Judge, from her footprints in Philadelphia to her face in New Hampshire.

Federal officials have given final approval for a controversial segment of the Dakota Access oil pipeline that crosses the Missouri River.

An attack at a California Islamic center is the latest violence where the perpetrators said they were inspired by past atrocities, such as the 2019 massacre in Christchurch, New Zealand.

A Tennessee judge has set a $1 million bond for a white livestreamer charged with attempted murder for allegedly shooting and wounding a Black man.

A lawsuit filed on behalf of students and community organizations in Massachusetts argues the state is illegally maintaining schools that are racially segregated, concentrating Black and Latino students in high-poverty districts with fewer opportunities.

The South Carolina House has endorsed a plan to redraw its congressional districts to favor Republicans at the urging of President Donald Trump.

The NAACP is calling on Black athletes, alumni, fans and the general public to boycott the athletic programs of public universities in states that aim to redistrict longtime Black lawmakers.

A Minnesota county prosecutor has charged an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in the nonfatal shooting of a Venezuelan man during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the state.

The South Carolina House is debating legislation that could redraw congressional districts to help Republicans possibly win an additional seat in the November elections.

Indigenous leaders say that federal contractors are desecrating sacred Native American places and cultural sites at an unprecedented pace in the rush to build more walls on the U.S.-Mexico border.

The year was 1965 and Black Americans had come to Montgomery, Alabama, to demonstrate peacefully voting rights.

The Trump administration has run the names of at least 67 million voters through government databases as it looks for noncitizens and people who've died.

Félicien Kabuga, accused of bankrolling the Rwandan genocide, died in a hospital in The Hague while in custody, a U.N. court said.

María Cabrera and her family fled into the night-cloaked mountains of central Mexico with only the clothes on their backs when bombs fell from the sky and bullets ricocheted off her concrete floors.

A family-owned Latino grocery store in Delaware is attracting online audiences and bands from far away with monthly concerts from diverse artists and genres.

Thousands of people gathered in Montgomery, Alabama, to mobilize support for voting rights amid concerns about redistricting efforts.

A new generation of civil rights leaders is rallying against efforts to dismantle the Voting Rights Act.

New U.S. House districts in Florida are facing their first test in court.

State senators in Louisiana have passed a new congressional map after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the previous one.

House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries had warned Republicans they would come to regret the congressional redistricting fight.

Republican senators in Louisiana have advanced a plan to eliminate one of two majority-Black U.S. House districts for this year's elections.

Timed for release during AAPI Heritage Month, “The A List: 15 Stories from Asian and Pacific Diasporas” has dropped on HBO Max.

The Philadelphia region is rich in golf history, yet the area's greatest contribution to the game may have come from public course in West Philadelphia.