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Funeral held for judge who ruled on funding for HBCUs in state
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Thu,10/26/23-2:00AM , 440 Reads
OXFORD — Funeral services were being held Wednesday for longtime U.S. District Judge Neal Brooks Biggers Jr. of Mississippi, who issued significant rulings about prayer in public schools and funding of historically Black universities.
Biggers died Oct. 15 at his home in Oxford. He was 88.
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Newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana speaks during a news conference Wednesday at the Capitol in Washington. (Associated Press)

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La. representative elected House speaker
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Thu,10/26/23-2:00AM , 493 Reads
WASHINGTON — Republicans unanimously elected Rep. Mike Johnson as House speaker on Wednesday, eagerly elevating a deeply conservative but lesser-known leader to the major seat of U.S. power and ending for now the weeks of political chaos in their majority.
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Carole Stovall, a participant in the Tomosynthesis Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial, poses for a portrait in her office in Washington. “We all need a mammogram anyway, so why not do it with a study that allows the scientists to understand more and move closer to finding better treatments and ways of maybe even preventing it?” Stovall says. (By The Associated Press)

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Mammogram study could help close breast cancer racial gap
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Wed,10/18/23-2:00AM , 489 Reads
Are 3D mammograms better than standard 2D imaging for catching advanced cancers?
A clinical trial is recruiting thousands of volunteers — including a large number of Black women who face disparities in breast cancer death rates — to try to find out.
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ACT scores for US students decline to a new 30-year low
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Thu,10/12/23-2:00AM , 822 Reads
High school students’ scores on the ACT college admissions test have dropped to their lowest in more than three decades, showing a lack of student preparedness for college-level coursework, according to the nonprofit organization that administers the test.
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