PHOTO: Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver was the first Black woman to hold statewide elected office in New Jersey, winning the vote alongside Murphy in 2017 and again in 2021.
United States

Sheila Y. Oliver, New Jersey’s lieutenant governor and a prominent Black leader, dies at 71

PHOTO: Senator Bob Menendez (Flickr)
United States

Sens. Menendez, Padilla, Rep. Napolitano Introduce Mental Health For Latinos Act

Presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks at a drive-in rally at UAW Local 14 in Toledo, Ohio, on Monday, Oct. 12, 2020. (Lori King/The Blade via AP)
Election

Trump, Biden zero in on swing states that are key to victory

Democratic U.S. presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign speech in which he never removed his mask while discussing the death toll from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in the United States exceeding 200,000 people, at the Wisconsin Aluminum Foundry in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, U.S., September 21, 2020. Mark Makela | Reuters
Politics

Biden: Trump diagnosis is ‘bracing reminder’ of virus stakes

Electronic voting machines being tested in Conyers, Ga. The state has been the focal point for the debate over how closely election officials and the voting industry are intertwined. | David Goldman/AP
Election

Illinois mail in ballot requests pass 1 million and counting

In this May 27, 2020, photo, health care workers talk outside a Lowndes County coronavirus testing site in Hayneville, Ala. Experts say Lowndes County and nearby poor, mostly black counties in rural Alabama are now facing a “perfect storm” as infections tick up: a lack of access to medical care combined with poverty and the attendant health problems that can worsen the outcomes for those who become sick. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)
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Surviving in America’s Black Belt amid pandemic and job loss

Child in hospital. PHOTO: Shutterstock.
United States

US issues alert over COVID-19-linked childhood illness

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