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Nearly 61 years ago, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, a defining moment for the civil rights movement – and a turning point for the nation. “Every family across this great, entire, searching land will live stronger in liberty, will live more splendid in expectation, and will be prouder to be American because of the act that you have passed, that I will sign today,” Johnson said.The law sought to end obstacles to Black voters casting their ballots, said Martha Jones, a history professor at Johns Hopkins University. “Slavery is abolished in 1865; in 1870, the 15th Amendment…

Mehidy Hasan claimed five wickets with his crafty off-spin as Bangladesh fought to regain control of the first cricket Test against Pakistan.The 28-year-old Mehidy finished with 5-102 to help Bangladesh dismiss Pakistan for 386 and take a 27-run first-innings lead on a rain-affected third day on Sunday.Bangladesh then moved to 0-7 before bad light stopped play.Opener Azan Awais hit 103 on his debut to lead Pakistan’s batsmen.Three other batters — debutant Abdullah Fazal, Salman Agha and Mohammad Rizwan — hit half-centuries to complement him but Mehidy ensured Bangladesh took the lead.Pakistan appeared set for a big first-innings total after resuming…

Central banks hold rates steady as energy shock tests inflation fight.Caught between rising inflation and slowing growth, the United States Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and the Bank of England are keeping interest rates and borrowing costs steady.That’s despite rising energy bills, fuel and food costs squeezing businesses and households worldwide.The International Monetary Fund is warning of a global slowdown, and no one knows how long the energy shock set off by the US-Israel war on Iran will last.The impact will be felt hardest in emerging markets and developing nations. Central banks face a tough choice: fight rising prices…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson stood out from her colleagues this week when she broke with them to rail against the high court’s decision to fast-track its landmark order dismantling a key provision in the Voting Rights Act. But Jackson’s solo dissent was far from the first time the Biden-appointed justice has been on an island, as she has routinely blasted the court for not asserting more judicial authority over President Donald Trump’s executive actions and drawn rebukes from her colleagues for taking what they have viewed as flawed positions.Ideological divides over high-profile cases…

XRP price might be falling under its $1.40 support, but UBS, a Swiss banking giant managing $7 trillion in assets, has disclosed XRP exposure via a 13F filing with the SEC. The full scope of that filing reveals exactly which instruments the bank used, and why that distinction matters for price structure. The @UBS Group, the world’s largest wealth manager with $5.7 TRILLION in assets, has officially disclosed its #XRP holdings in a brand-new SEC 13F filing.This isn't just "retail hype"; this is one of the most powerful financial institutions on the planet loading up on XRP… pic.twitter.com/lfucA23b5P— 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗸XRP (@BankXRP)…

Options traders can’t get enough of semiconductor stocks. No matter how high they go or how expensive the options get, bulls just keep flooding the space.After a 700% rally the past year, traders poured into Micron options Tuesday, paying expensive premiums to get access to further upside in the legacy memory-chip maker that became one of the market’s hottest AI trades over the past year. More than $2.8 billion of Micron options premium changed hands Tuesday as of noon Chicago time, eclipsing the dollar-amount traded in index ETFs SPY and QQQ combined. Micron accounted for 12 of the top 20…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Earlier this week, Draymond Green made headlines by criticizing the twilight of Charles Barkley’s Hall of Fame career.Appearing in studio during Wednesday’s edition of “Inside the NBA,” Green pointed to Barkley’s four-year stint with the Houston Rockets.”I think the goal is just to not look like you in the Houston Rockets uniform,” a follow-up to Barkley’s suggestion that the Golden State Warriors — Green’s team — are well past their championship window. Days later, as controversy mounted, Green clarified his remarks about Barkley.”The reason that I would even say that is what…

The MV Hondius situation — where several people have died while trapped on a cruise vessel — is a stark reminder of the horror plague ship that docked in Sydney in March 2020: the Ruby Princess.

The Venice Token price has continued its strong surge this month and is now trading at its all-time high. VVV token was trading at $15.2 on Sunday, a few points below the record high of $16.65. It remains nearly 1,500% above its lowest level in December last year. Venice Token price rallying amid growing usage and token burnsAI tokens have done relatively well in the past few weeks. For example, Bittensor (TAO) token has jumped by 9% in the last seven days. NEAR, ICP, Render, Virtuals, and FET have all jumped by over 10% in this period. Venice Token, on the other…

French forward to miss the crucial fixture despite training with teammates on Friday following his recovery from injury.Published On 10 May 202610 May 2026Kylian Mbappe will miss Real Madrid’s crucial La Liga fixture against Barcelona despite training for El Clasico with his teammates before the trip to the Catalan capital.The league’s leading goal scorer was left out of the Real Madrid squad named for Sunday night’s game at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, where the home team can be crowned Spanish champions with a win over their archrivals.Images from Real Madrid’s home training session on Saturday, which showed Mbappe…