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DENVER (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department is suing several large landlords for allegedly coordinating to keep Americans’ rents high by using both an algorithm to help set rents and privately sharing sensitive information with their competitors to boost profits. The lawsuit arrives as U.S. renters continue to struggle under

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Wildfires tore across the Los Angeles area with devastating force Wednesday after setting off a desperate escape from burning homes through flames, ferocious winds and towering clouds of smoke. The flames from a fire that broke out Tuesday evening near a nature preserve in the inland foothills northeast

NEW YORK (AP) — A national rights group said Tuesday that more U.S. companies are providing strong benefits and protections to LGBTQ+ employees despite an ongoing effort by conservative activists to get high-profile brands to stop participating in the organization’s annual workplace report card. The education arm of the Human Rights Campaign released its latest

 President-elect Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to call off Friday’s sentencing in his hush money case in New York. Trump’s lawyers turned to the nation’s highest court Wednesday after New York courts refused to do postpone the sentencing by Juan M. Merchan, the judge who presided over Trump’s trial and conviction

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. We need to modernize and catapult the national Democratic Party, and with an actual rocket scientist.  In 2022, I announced my Democratic candidacy for governor of the Republican-dominated state of Arkansas.

NEW YORK (AP) — Oprah Winfrey is beginning 2025 with an old favorite. She has selected Eckhart Tolle’s “A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life Purpose” for her book club, marking the first time she has chosen a publication twice. Winfrey, who launched her club in 1996, also picked “A New Earth”

Vice President Kamala Harris paid tribute to former President Jimmy Carter as his casket was laid inside the U.S. Capitol rotunda on Tuesday, remembering the 39th commander-in-chief for his humility, commitment to diversity, and revolutionary actions to advance environmental policies. America’s first female, first Black woman, and first South Asian

The widow of Stephen “tWitch” Boss, Allison Holker, says in a new interview that learned so much more about what her late husband had been going through after his death. Ahead of the release of her memoir “This Far,” the 36-year-old professional dancer revealed the “really scary” way she learned

Jamaican dancehall legend Vybz Kartel has weighed in on the long-running but currently simmering Drake versus Kendrick Lamar beef, very clearly stating which side he rides with.  In a cover story for Billboard in preparation for his New Year’s Eve Freedom Street concert in Kingston, Jamaica, Kartel was asked how

Jordan Chiles goes “crazy” in her new floor routine. The 23-year-old Olympic gold medalist gymnast debuted a new lively floor routine on Saturday, Jan 4, while competing at the American Gold Women’s Collegiate Classic. The routine was set to a rocking medley of Prince music that kicked off with “Let’s