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"Don't go out to the cookout." The leader of Tank and the Bangas spreads pure joy from her living room in New Orleans.

Voters will decide primaries in four states Tuesday, with fewer than 100 days before Election Day. Over the next six weeks, all of the contests for November will be set, as the stakes for the parties and control of government become more pressing.

Eliska and Welmon Barriere are among the roughly 6 million blacks who migrated north during the 20th century. They left New Orleans in 1962 for Milwaukee, where they raised a family. But they moved to Georgia in the 1990s, part of a trend of blacks going back to the South.

Eliska and Welmon Barriere are among the roughly 6 million blacks who migrated north during the 20th century. They left New Orleans in 1962 for Milwaukee, where they raised a family. But they moved to Georgia in the 1990s, part of a trend of blacks going back to the South.

The family heard a bang and found packages of frozen pork on the roof and beside the house. Labels traced the pork to a man 170 miles away, who had no idea how the pork ended up airborne.

The guitarist was singing Wonderwall's "Oasis." A statement by police said the busker was "loud, bad and noisy" and "just because you can play Wonderwall does not mean you should."

More than 5,000 people turn out to welcome home an Army National Guard unit that lost five members during a year-long tour of Iraq. Delivering supplies and mail around Baghdad, the unit, from Paris, Ill., drew more than 100 mortar attacks and came under enemy fire 60 times. The unit sustained injuries that earned soldiers 32 Purple Heart awards.

Over the weekend, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw paid a surprise visit to Baghdad, where they urged Iraq's political leaders to form a government. Sunday, Jill Carroll flew home to her family in Boston, left, after three months of captivity in Iraq.

Health inspectors are to be "hyperfocused on infection control right now," officials say, as they suss out what allowed COVID-19 to spread in a Kirkland, Wash., nursing home.

Many state nursing home oversight agencies are understaffed. Advocates for residents say that is increasingly putting people who live in nursing homes at greater risk of abuse and neglect.