as its presidential candidate.

The job has been hard this year. Sponsors have pulled out of the celebrations and he knows some international travelers are not coming due to fear they will have difficulties with law enforcement.Hutton understands why various groups want individual activities; one version will not accommodate all audiences. But the cornerstone of Black pride is community. “We have the opportunity to really showcase all of these communities to the world,” he said.

In the end, he said, he wants one message to resound after the gathering of communities: “We’re not going anywhere.”“We’ll continue pushing our rights forward, not just for us in America,” Hutton said. “As someone told me, when America sneezes, the world catches a cold. So we have to make sure that America doesn’t catch a cold.”VATICAN CITY (AP) — Some

Jorge Mario Bergoglio was born Dec. 17, 1936, to Italian immigrants in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the eldest of five children. He was ordained a Jesuit priest in 1969 and led the religious order in Argentina during the country’s murderous dictatorship from 1976-83. He became archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998 and elevated to cardinal in 2001 by St. John Paul II. He was elected the 266th pope on March 13, 2013, on the fifth ballot.— The first pope from the Americas.

— The first from the Jesuit order to be elected pope.

— The first to take the name of Francis, after St. Francis of Assisi.and boycotts over Musk wading into politics, but it also faces other factors including an aging model lineup and intensifying competition from rival electric vehicle brands, particularly from China.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war has alsobuying American brands. In recent days, Trump

a 50% tariff on EU goods, accusing the bloc of being “very difficult to deal with,” before agreeing to delay the duties until July.In one sign that Tesla appears to be losing ground to cut-price Chinese brands, sales at China’s SAIC zoomed up 54% in April, according to the ACEA figures. SAIC owns a slew of auto brands including U.K.-based MG, known for its low-cost EV models.