Amber Alert for 2-year-old Virginia boy canceled after he’s found

April 30, 2026 | 7:25 AM

Virginia State Police issued an Amber Alert on Thursday morning for a missing 2-year-old boy out of Norfolk, Virginia, but he has since been found. The boy, Ziyon Isyiere Suzario Dagner was believed to be in extreme danger. He was last seen just after midnight this morning. At the time, authorities said he was abducted by 35-year-old James Edward Lynch. They were last seen together headed south on Chesapeake Boulevard in Norfolk.

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Civil rights groups make urgent plea for voting rights in DC, ahead of midterm elections

By The Associated Press
August 28, 2026 | 3:16 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Voting rights, the work of the civil rights movement and racial justice took center stage on the National Mall Friday, with protesters gathering ahead of midterm elections and following a wave of changes to voting laws and redistricting that some have condemned as detrimental to Black Americans. Hundreds of people gathered near the steps of the Lincoln Memorial for the 2026 “Defend the Vote” March on Washington, organized by the Rev. Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III, echoing the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 march. The event follows the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark April decision in Louisiana v. Callais that reinterpreted key provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, allowing Southern states to redraw their congressional maps in a way that erodes equal representation in Black communities. “We’ve been doing these marches for years, but this is probably the most important because this is the first year we are marching that the voting rights bill has been nullified by the Supreme Court,” Sharpton, founder of the National Action Network, said in an interview with The Associated Press. Some call it a ‘very dangerous moment in American history’

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