Meetings in Cuba with apartheid regime by Obama’s top sanctions official raises questions

Critics of President Obama's diplomatic thaw with Cuba are questioning why a top official with the U.S. government office charged with maintaining the trade embargo and leveling sanctions against the Castro government was in Havana earlier this month meeting with regime officials. Acting Deputy Director of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control Andrea Gacki was one of several U.S. officials in Havana for meetings that took place in mid-July, a senior administration official confirmed to the Washington Examiner .

North Carolina Voting Restrictions Violate Voters’ Rights, Court Finds

A federal appeals court Friday invalidated an array of voting restrictions North Carolina imposed in 2013, finding that they violated the Voting Rights Act by obstructing African-Americans' access to the polls. In a blistering opinion that minced few words about the racial polarization it said continues to afflict the state, the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., reinstated an array of election tools that disproportionately aided African-Americans.

No Obama Bounce For DNC Day 3 Ratings As They Fall Behind RNC,…

We won't quit Bern-stock say the Sanders backers who are testing Philadelphia's patience by camping outside the DNC - and threatening to stay after it's over - Illegal camp in Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park is outside Wells Fargo Center where Hillary Clinton's coronation as candidate is under way As Obama speaks, chaos and arrests outside DNC - PHILADELPHIA - As President Barack Obama took the stage at the Democratic National Convention inside the Wells Fargo Center on Wednesday night, a chaotic situation erupted nearby that led to seven arrests.

University Students Petition Against Washington Post Columnist’s ‘Dangerous’ Views

Students at Elon University were so distraught at the thought of Pultizer Prize-winning columnist Kathleen Parker sharing her "dangerous" views in a lecture this October, they started a petition asking the administration to withdraw Parker's invitation. The university announced two months ago that Parker - a Washington Post columnist who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2010 - will deliver the Baird Pulitzer Prize Lecture on Oct 4. Some students on campus took issue with Parker's columns as well as her book, " Save the Males: Why Men Matter Why Women Should Care ."