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AISHA I. JEFFERSON

Global Desk Editor

Jefferson is an editor on the Global Editing Desk and a Top Stories fellow for The Associated Press based in Chicago. She also contributes text, video and audio reporting when needed.

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Democratic presidential hopeful Jesse Jackson with his wife, Jacqueline, salutes the cheering crowd at Operation Push in Chicago, March 10, 1988. (AP Photo/Fred Jewell, File)
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after King, has died at 84
 
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Rev. Jesse Jackson’s neighbors in Chicago mourn the civil rights activist’s passing
 
Jesse Jackson holds his hands up after announcing he will seek the Democratic nomination for president, with his campaign chairman Mayor Richard Hatcher, left, of Gary Ind., and Mayor Marion Barry of Washington, D.C., in Washington, Nov. 3, 1983. (AP Photo/Scott Stewart, File)
Civil Rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson has died at 84
 
The apartment building at 7500 South Shore Drive in Chicago, which was raided by ICE agents is seen on Oct. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)
In Chicago, an immense show of force signals a sharp escalation in White House immigration crackdown
 
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50 years of hip-hop: Living in a hip-hop world
Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel, second left, and Raul Castro's grandson Raul Guillermo Rodriguez Castro, center back, take part in a rally in support of former President Raul Castro in front of the U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba, Friday, May 22, 2026, after U.S. prosecutors filed an indictment accusing him of ordering the 1996 shootdown of civilian planes flown by Miami-based exiles. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
US sanctions Cuba’s president in move that adds further pressure to leadership
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | June 4, 2026
 
The U.S. Capitol, Wednesday, June 3, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert)
Trump confirms he called Netanyahu ‘crazy’ and says Israel is complicating peace talks with Iran
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | June 3, 2026
 
President Donald Trump listens during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, Wednesday, May 27, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Iran negotiators agree to extend ceasefire and start nuclear talks, pending Trump signoff, US official says
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | May 28, 2026
 
President Donald Trump, next to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, left, and Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, right, speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, Wednesday, May 27, 2026, in Washington, as Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, front left, and Vice President JD Vance, front right, look on. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Trump insists that the midterm elections won’t impact his Iran war strategy
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | May 27, 2026
 
FILE - Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard listens during the Senate Committee on Intelligence hearings on Capitol Hill, March 18, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
Tulsi Gabbard resigns as Trump’s national intelligence director, citing husband’s health
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | May 22, 2026
 
President Donald Trump attends an event about loosening a federal refrigerant rule, in the Oval Office at the White House, Thursday, May 21, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Trump says ‘it looks like I’ll be the one’ to intervene in Cuba after Castro indictment
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | May 21, 2026
 
FILE - Cuba's President Raul Castro listens to the Cuban and Venezuelan national anthems during his welcome ceremony at the Miraflores presidential palace, March 17, 2015, in Caracas, Venezuela. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)
US indicts former Cuban President Raúl Castro over 1996 downing of planes
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | May 20, 2026
 
President Donald Trump speaks as he tours Ballroom construction around the outside the White House, Tuesday, May 19, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
US government will permanently drop tax claims against Trump as part of IRS lawsuit deal
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | May 19, 2026
 
President Donald Trump, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives during a state dinner at the Great Hall of the People on Thursday May 14, 2026, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Trump says Xi offered to help broker peace with Iran
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | May 14, 2026
 
President Donald Trump walks during a welcome ceremony as he arrives on Air Force One, Wednesday, May 13, 2026, at Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Trump-Xi meeting to focus on Iran war, trade and US arms sales to Taiwan
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | May 13, 2026
 
President Donald Trump waves he leaves the White House for travel to Beijing, Tuesday, May 12, 2026, in Washington, to meet with China's President Xi Jinping. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Trump departs for Beijing while downplaying differences with Chinese leader Xi over Iran war
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | May 12, 2026
 
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth appears before a House Committee on Armed Services business meeting on the Department of Defense Fiscal Year 2027 on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, April 29, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey Jr.)
Trump rejects Iran’s latest proposal as Democrats confront Hegseth over war
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faced nearly six hours of questioning from House lawmakers for the first time since the Trump administration launched the war against Iran, which Democrats have contested as a costly conflict of choice waged without congressional approval. He’ll return to the Capitol t
 
President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting between the ambassadors of Israel and Lebanon in the Oval Office at the White House, Thursday, April 23, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Trump says he called off dispatching envoys to Iran talks
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A cargo ship sails in the Persian Gulf toward the Strait of Hormuz, Wednesday, April 22, 2026. (AP Photo)
Pentagon says it will take months to clear mines in the Strait of Hormuz, AP source says
Today’s live updates have ended. Follow more live coverage on the Iran war.
 
A woman mourns next to her relative's grave at a cemetery where civilians and Hezbollah fighters killed in Israeli airstrikes are temporarily buried in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Tuesday, April 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
Trump says the Iran war ‘is very close to over’
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Tracy Brooks, an auto worker retiree is interviewed as she shows off vintage photos of her family, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023, in Romulus, Mich. She and her father, and grandfather and daughter all worked on assembly lines for one or more of Detroit's automakers. "We told Britney Johnson (Brooks' daughter), she's representing our family," Brooks jokes when speaking of her daughter who is among tens of thousands of the union's Ford, General Motors and Stellantis employees who have walked off the job since the strike started Sept. 15. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
Some striking UAW members carry family legacies, Black middle-class future along with picket signs
Britney Johnson is among the thousands of Ford Motor Co. workers who went on strike to force the automaker to improve pay for all.
 
Rev. Al Sharpton addresses the audience as he gives the Eulogy during the memorial service for Dollar General shooting victim Angela Carr, as Bishop Rudolph McKissick, Jr., back, and his wife Pastor Kimberly McKissick, listen during a memorial service at The Bethel Baptist Church, Friday, Sept. 8, 2023, in Jacksonville, Fla. Uber driver Carr was one of three people killed in the racially motivated shooting. (Bob Self/The Florida Times-Union via AP)
As Jacksonville shooting victims are eulogized, advocates call attention to anti-Black hate crimes
The motivations of a shooter who recently targeted and killed Black people in Jacksonville, Florida, have revived concerns about the threat of hate violence and domestic terrorism.
 
FILE - The Harriott II riverboat sits docked in Montgomery, Ala., on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023. A riverfront brawl occurred on Aug. 5 when a crew member was punched for trying to move a pontoon boat that was blocking the riverboat from docking. (AP Photo/Kim Chandler, File)
Alabama riverfront brawl videos spark a cultural moment about race, solidarity and justice
Bystanders who trained their smartphone cameras on an Alabama riverfront dock, as several white boaters pummeled a Black riverboat co-captain, couldn’t have known the footage would elicit a national conversation about racial solidarity.
 

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