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Olympic gymnastics champion Simone Biles entered the fray of the U.S. presidential race on August 2 with a social media post that appeared to clap back at former President Donald Trump’s comment about “Black jobs.” “I love my black job,” Biles posted on X, in response to a post from singer Ricky Davila, who had said: “Iconic photo of the GOAT mastering her black job and collecting Gold Medals.” The exchange came hours after Biles held off Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade to win the all-around Paris Olympics gymnastics finals, taking home her ninth gold medal. At 27, she is the...

A day after Donald Trump’s contentious interview at the National Association of Black Journalists conference, the organization was back to business as usual. Thousands of journalists spoke with recruiters or networked at the career fair. Meeting rooms overflowed with attendees listening to panel discussions on career growth and industry changes, including conversations around artificial intelligence and new considerations in criminal justice coverage. Many passed by the people at the Dow Jones desk to congratulate them on Wall Street Journal colleague Evan Gershkovich’s release from prison in Russia in a massive prisoner swap deal. But members of the nation’s largest...

A drive out to Atlanta’s sprawling suburbs passes the cultural centers, schools, and houses of worship that opened as this became the nation’s sixth-largest metropolitan area. Displaying the diversity within the growth, shops and brightly lit billboards advertise in Chinese, Korean, Spanish, and Hindi. The changes have been stark even for residents who experienced them. “There were a handful of Indians around when I was growing up,” said Hemant Ramachandran, an Atlanta attorney who grew up in Gwinnett County, a short drive from Atlanta and the heart of Georgia’s fast-growing Asian American community. SOME ATLANTA SUBURBS TURN ASIAN AMERICAN...

In the unrelenting heat of Morocco’s Middle Atlas, people were sleeping on rooftops. Hanna Ouhbour needed refuge too, but she was outside a hospital waiting for her diabetic cousin who was in a room without air conditioning. On July 24, there were 21 heat-related deaths at Beni Mellal’s main hospital as temperatures spiked to 118.9 degrees Fahrenheit in the region of 575,000 people, most lacking air conditioning. “We don’t have money and we don’t have a choice,” said Ouhbour, a 31-year-old unemployed woman from Kasba Tadla, an even warmer city that some experts say is among the hottest on...

Forget about red hot. A new color-coded heat warning system relies on magenta to alert Americans to the most dangerous conditions they may see this summer. The National Weather Service and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention presented a new online heat risk system that combines meteorological and medical risk factors with a seven-day forecast that is simplified and color-coded for a warming world of worsening heat waves. “For the first time we’ll be able to know how hot is too hot for health and not just for today but for coming weeks,” Dr. Ari Bernstein, director of...

Mexican farm worker Avelino Vazquez Navarro did not have air conditioning in the motor home where he died in July in Washington state as temperatures surged into the triple digits. For the last dozen years, the 61-year-old spent much of the year working near Pasco, Washington, sending money to his wife and daughters in the Pacific coast state of Nayarit, Mexico, and traveling back every Christmas. Now, the family is raising money to bring his remains home. “If this motor home would have had AC and it was running, then it most likely would have helped,” said Franklin County...