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In the dorms at University of Florida, the facility who keep the dorms clean has had to remind college leadership that during the pandemic they aren't just essential — but frontline workers.

Authorities say inmates belonging to one gang at the prison in Pará state set fire to a building housing members of a rival gang. At least 16 of the dead were found decapitated, officials said.

By Greg Eskridge. Cleo Cloman has spent over two decades behind bars for murder. He grew up in a two parent household and had dreams of playing professional baseball. After a rocky relationship with his father, he lost his passion for the sport and found a new pursuit: the streets.

Attorney General William Barr is directing the Bureau of Prisons to resume capital punishment in the federal prison system.

The House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted to classify lynching as a federal hate crime. The vote came at the end of Black History Month.

The report found the U.S. Park Police made the call to clear Lafayette Park before knowing of then-President Donald Trump's visit to a damaged church in the area.

In a new book, economist William Darity Jr. argues that monetary payments are owed directly to the descendants of enslaved people, to help reverse more than two centuries of disenfranchisement.

The Trump administration says it has started the process of issuing "substantial" reduction-in-force notices to federal employees. Court filings suggest around 4,200 affected so far.

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