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Teen injured in Monday morning shooting

Record number of African Americans will now serve in Congress

By Lauren Victoria Burke 
Contributing Writer
(NNPA Newswire) – Reality star billionaire Donald Trump won the presidency in shocking fashion, but African-American candidates also made history on November 8.

There will be a record number of African Americans in Congress during the time Trump is in the White House. That number will rise from 48 to 52.

There have never been more African Americans elected to Congress in American history.
Kamala Harris of California will be the second African-American woman to serve in the...MORE

Japanese leader Abe to visit Pearl Harbor with Obama

​Trump taps former campaign rival Carson as housing secretary

Armed Robber on The Run in Shreveport

Active shooter reported on Ohio State University campus

OSU Emergency Mngmnt‏@OSU_EMFP

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"Active Shooter on campus. Run Hide Fight. Watts Hall. 19th and College. "

​Cuba's Fidel Castro, former president, dies aged 90

​Fidel Castro, Cuba's former president and leader of the Communist revolution, has died aged 90, his brother has said.
"The commander in chief of the Cuban revolution died at 22:29 hours this evening (03:29 GMT Saturday)," President Raul Castro said.

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'Hail Trump!': White Nationalists Salute the President Elect

Video of an alt-right conference in Washington, D.C., where Trump’s victory was met with cheers and Nazi salutes... MORE

RELATED: President-elect Trump, Not Until Days Later, Disavows Neo-Nazi Display

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Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:

1. WHERE TRUMP'S 'THANK YOU' TOUR IS HEADED NEXT

The president-elect's appearance in Fayetteville, North Carolina, will be followed by rallies in Iowa and Michigan later this week.

2. US LAWMAKERS FACE WEEKEND DEADLINE

Congress marches toward a final vote on legislation boosting medical research and speeding drug approvals while readying a separate stopgap spending bill.

3. SAD, FINAL WORDS FOR OAKLAND VICTIMS

Some people were able to text loved ones goodbye and "I love you" before they died in a warehouse fire that claimed three dozen lives.

4. AP: THE FREEING OF 226 CHRISTIANS FROM IS IN SYRIA

It took more than a year, three videotaped killings and millions in ransom money from across the Assyrian diaspora and ended up in extremists' pockets before the final captive was freed.

5. PUTIN SEEKS TO PROJECT POWER WITH MODERN MILITARY

With an aircraft carrier off Syria's shores and hundreds of new jets, missiles and tanks entering service each year, Russia can project military power on a scale unseen since Soviet times.n... MORE

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​​Jesse Williams: ‘Just Because We’re Magic, Does Not Mean We’re Not Real’
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​Shreveport HIV/AIDS Call to Action: 
Half of black, quarter of Latino gay men projected to be diagnosed within their lifetime. Heterosexuals not immune.
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​​The Beatings Paradigm: A carryover from our slavery past? Is there a correlation between planta-tion coding, and black parenting and discipline?
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Hillary Clinton: The Secretary Wears Nada​
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REVIEW: Shreveport's Ology Jazz Sextet
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​TAMIR RICE: Settlement of $6 Million, No Culpability
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​Nobel Prize in economics awarded to Arthur Lewis from the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. He was the first Black recipient in a category other than peace.
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