August 2026 – Page 493 – Free Press of Jacksonville

Vaccine Timing Linked to Science, not Politics Drugmaker Contradicts Trump Timeline Rhetoric

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By Linda A. Johnson and Jonathan Lemire – The Associated Press – The head of Pfizer, one of the drugmakers racing to develop a coronavirus vaccine, told employees on Thursday he was disappointed that its […]

UN: Climate Change Means More Weather Disasters Every Year

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GENEVA (AP) – In the wake of heat waves, global warming, forest fires, storms, droughts and a rising number of hurricanes, the U.N. weather agency is warning that the number of people who need international […]

Divine Warning in the Time of God’s Judgement

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By the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, The Final Call [Editor’s Note: The following article contains excerpts from an hour-long message delivered by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan as Part 10 of his 52-week Lecture Series […]

Cory Booker and Rosario Dawson Finding Life ‘Enriching’ Together

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By rollingout –October 12, 2020 – Rosario Dawson and her boyfriend, U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, D-New Jersey, have found life “incredibly enriching” since moving in together. The 41-year-old actress moved into her politician boyfriend’s New […]

Wealth Gap Costs Blacks $2.7T in Income Over Past Two Decades – U.S. Economy Loses Out on $16T

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By Charlene Crowell – America’s persistent racial income and wealth gaps are the result of four intertwined factors: housing, education, business ownership and access to credit. Closing these gaps would facilitate inter-generational wealth creation for […]

Black Conservative Pays for African Americans to Attend Trump Event at White House

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Just one week after he was hospitalized, President Donald Trump on Saturday took to a balcony overseeing the South Lawn of the White House to assure he no longer suffers from the novel coronavirus that […]

API President Talks Climate Changes, Minority Hiring in Oil and Gas Industry

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NNPA NEWSWIRE — By Stacy M. Brown – “API is not just an advocacy organization, it’s a standard-setting organization for the oil and gas industry. We provide those standards for free to [Historically Black Colleges and […]

ADVICE: “Should I Stay, or Should I Go…?”

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#NNPA BLACKPRESS – By Alma Gill (NNPA Newswire Contributor)— Me and my husband have completely ended our marriage, but we still live together as a family. It’s not because of the corona. We have been […]

AMC Theatres Says Cash Resources to Be “Largely Depleted” by End of 2020 or Early 2021

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by Georg Szalai – “The required amounts of additional liquidity are expected to be material,” the exhibition giant says. Movie theater giant AMC Theatres said on Tuesday that its “existing cash resources would be largely depleted […]

Donald Trump Tests Negative for COVID-19, White House Physician Says

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WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal physician Dr. Sean Conley confirmed late Monday that the president has tested negative for the novel coronavirus “on consecutive days.” Conley’s comments were included in a memo to […]