According to its Profiles in Charity Trust and Giving survey, charity evaluator Give.org reported that 16 percent of Americans had high trust in such charities, a 3 percent increase from 2019. More than 2,100 U.S. adults participated in the survey, which has a margin error of 2 percent. The survey found that 22 percent of Black and African Americans were shown to be more likely to donate to charities, with the same statistic being reported for Hispanics....

AFRICAN CATCH-22 When Jeffrey Bartholet began covering Liberia’s civil war in 1990, he traveled through rebel-held territory where human skulls were planted on stakes. When Bartholet went back to interview President Charles Taylor (page 28), he was astonished to hear Taylor deny that his troops had committed atrocities. “It’s hard not to despair about Liberia,” says Bartholet. “Under Taylor, the country is going nowhere. And yet the new war to get rid of him will only cause more ruin....

Andrew Luck has now thrown three or more touchdown passes in seven straight games for the 5-5 Colts after three years of battling shoulder issues. J.J. Watt has reached 10 sacks for the first-place Texans in his surprising return to top form after multiple surgeries. Then there’s Adrian Peterson. REDSKINS AT COWBOYS: Time, TV channel, how to watch Peterson missed 19 games over the past two years with knee and neck injuries....

Calls and emails requesting an Oregon audit began in June, but they have increased in the last few weeks, Marion County Clerk Bill Burgess told The Statesman Journal. Former President Donald Trump won Marion county in 2016 but lost it by 1,870 votes in 2020. “People, they’ll come and they’ll start asking the question and then they won’t wait for an answer,” Burgess said. “They’ll start railing away and sometimes with a lot of obscenity and all, too....

The 26-year-old freshman GOP House member announced that he and his wife Cristina Cawthorn had “mutually decided” to end their marriage in a statement issued by his communications director Luke Ball on Wednesday. The couple married on April 3, roughly three months after Cawthorn was seated in the House. “When my wife Cristina and I were engaged, I was not a member of Congress,” Cawthorn said in the statement, which was shared on Twitter....

Fans in the stadium started the game off valiantly. No way would their spirits be dampened by a little rain. They were at the Super Bowl! They guzzled beer and scarfed down chili dogs. They cheered and jeered, jumped out of their seats and pumped their fists. But as the game wore on and they became more and more waterlogged, things got quiet. When either team scored, their fans barely rustled....

McAuliffe, who is seeking a non-consecutive second term as governor, noted that Youngkin had embraced endorsements from former President Donald Trump, warning that the Republican businessman was “too extreme” and would cause Trump-like “damage” to the state. The Virginia debate came two days after Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom easily defeated an effort to recall him while repeatedly comparing leading Republican replacement candidate Larry Elder to Trump. “Look at the damage Trump did to the country, and now they want to bring that to Virginia?...

Superior Court Judge Jodi Alper ruled in favor of restarting sixth and ninth grade in-person classes in New Jersey’s South Orange-Maplewood School District on Tuesday. The move was the latest development in an ongoing battle between teachers and school employees concerned about safety due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the school district and parents in favor of fully reopening. The classes are set to resume on Monday in classrooms that the teacher’s union has agreed are acceptable....

On Monday, as Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri took the presidential oath of office with a Koran held over her head, Jakarta and the entire nation were quiet. Aside from several church bombings which may or may not have had a political motive, there were no significant demonstrations protesting Wahid’s constitutional ouster. No province threatened to break away, and most Indonesians simply seemed relieved that the nearly-blind Muslim scholar’s 21 tumultuous months in office were finally over....

Story 2: only last month Wall Street was buzzing about another scandal, involving the government-bond desk at Kidder Peabody. One of the firm’s top traders, Joseph Jett, was fired after Kidder charged that he had created millions in “phantom trades,” inflating the firm’s income to boost his multimillion-dollar pay. Jett, who has denied the charges, was another of the most successful blacks on Wall Street. Among the legions of whites on Wall Street, two such events would hardly make a ripple....

Agronomists found a way to grow enough calories to feed the burgeoning population, but it was done with little regard for nutrition or the impact on the planet. Today, as we face the consequences of our unchecked damage, can agronomists save us again? At nearly 8 billion and growing, humanity doesn’t have a lot of space left — at least in a philosophical sense. Sure, there are still areas of the planet where you can throw a rock and not hit anyone; but that’s a function of our species’ weird distribution....

The Colts running back initially was stopped by state troopers on Interstate 70 in Ohio on Feb. 5 for a traffic violation. Upon stopping Bradshaw’s Cadillac, the officers noticed a strong smell of marijuana, AP reported. PHOTOS: NFL arrests in 2015 | Doug Baldwin apologizes Trooper J.A. Barhorst said that both Bradshaw and his passenger denied marijuana was in the vehicle, but while the trooper was searching Bradshaw, he found a small container holding “a brown substance” in his pocket....

UPAW will soon be accepting donations to purchase dog food and cat food, pledging to distribute it “fairly to hundreds of animal shelters in war-torn Ukraine.” The website, which is in its final stages, will serve as a platform for animal shelters to register and share their most urgent needs with the organization. Food for the animals is a huge priority. Four Paws also said that special warehouses are being set up to distribute the food for animals throughout the country....

And so it began. How do you mark 20 years of AIDS? With mourning, surely, for the 22 million lives from San Francisco to Nairobi that acquired immune deficiency syndrome has stolen: Ryan White, Rock Hudson, Arthur Ashe, Alvin Ailey, Rudolf Nureyev, Randy Shilts, Elizabeth Glaser, Keith Haring, Liberace and all the emaciated, sunken-eyed nameless victims. And you mark it, too, with horror that last year 5.3 million people worldwide–14,500 a day–were newly infected....

The latest iteration of the company’s flagship sneaker wasn’t completely re-engineered due to a shorter design cycle, and because of that, there are many similarities to the Jordan XX9. And the changes that were made didn’t seem to click with the masses, at least based on how the images were initially received. MORE: Hands-on photos from Air Jordan XXX release But Hatfield believes that’s been the case with many of his previous designs, and he feels that if there’s a bit of negativity surrounding an all-new style, it means he’s doing something right....

A range of factors are thought to contribute to a person developing a mental illness, explained the authors of the paper published in the journal PLOS Biology. These factors include genetics, neurochemistry and the environment. To investigate the potential link between air pollution and mental disorders, the international team of researchers looked at an insurance claims database of 151,104,811 people in the U.S., collected between 2003 and 2013. They also looked at the Danish national treatment and pollution registers, featuring information on 1,436,702 individuals born between January 1, 1979 and December 31, 2002....

But the operation actually marks a more aggressive posture. In one sense, the airdrops fulfill Secretary of State Warren Christopher’s Feb. 10 promise to speed delivery of emergency supplies, the fourth step in a six-point program that includes a commitment to peaceful settlement, a war-crimes tribunal and tougher sanctions on Belgrade. But the mission also represents a major departure from U.N. relief efforts, which have always relied on cooperation from local Serb commanders....

Hrustic, 20, has been training permanently with Ernest Faber’s first-team squad since January after a strong first half of the campaign with Groningen’s second team in the Dutch fourth tier. The Melbourne-born attacker made his senior debut when he came off the bench against AZ on April 1 and has appeared in four of Groningen’s following six games, scoring his maiden goal in a 5-1 thumping of PEC Zwolle last month....

Al Batarji tweeted: “Three more points for Al Ahli, and continued domination of the derby, congratulations to the team and the fans who were present, nothing can repay your faith and support to the team.”

From the looks of things, this season will be no different. After winning Tuesday, the Orioles (19-12) and Red Sox (20-13) remained tied atop the division standings as they ride three-game winning streaks. MORE: Great final seasons | Will David Ortiz really retire? The Red Sox have scored 27 runs in the first two games of their series against the Athletics (14-20). Hanley Ramirez and Travis Shaw led Boston to a 13-5 win Tuesday at Fenway Park....