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Flowers and a Confederate flag lay at the base of a marker at Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania in 2013. The Civil War has been over for 151 years, and Department of Veterans Affairs cemeteries, which began three years prior, have finally decided to restrict flags representing the killers of U.S. government soldiers.
Turkish and Syrian rebel forces, aided by U.S. aircraft and Special Operations advisers, have launched a major cross-border offensive aimed at capturing the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's last stronghold on Syria's border with Turkey. The operation, Turkey's largest direct involvement yet against the militants in Syria, includes Turkish planes, tanks, artillery and special operations units, along with 500 to 700 rebel fighters.
Black Republicans cheer Donald Trump for a newfound outreach to African-Americans, but say the GOP presidential nominee must take his message beyond arenas filled with white supporters and venture into the inner cities. Many rank-and-file black voters, meanwhile, dismiss the overtures as another racially charged pitch from a campaign aimed exclusively at whites, from Trump's emphasis on "law and order" to his withering critiques of President Barack Obama, the nation's first black chief executive.
The list of flip-flops that Donald Trump has made since descending the escalators in his eponymous tower last year and into the presidential campaign continues to grow. In the latest instance, he has described his change in tone on immigration as a "softening" of a stance he previously touted, rather than a complete reversal.
Black Republicans cheer Donald Trump for a newfound outreach to African-Americans, but say the GOP presidential nominee must take his message beyond arenas filled with white supporters and venture into the inner cities. Many rank-and-file black voters, meanwhile, dismiss the overtures as another racially charged pitch from a campaign aimed exclusively at whites, from Trump's emphasis on "law and order" to his withering critiques of President Barack Obama, the nation's first black chief executive.
Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that he is open to "softening" laws dealing with immigrants in the country illegally, the latest sign that the Republican presidential nominee is considering easing the hardline stance he has taken since the beginning of his campaign.
Vox reported that low-income minority populations are more likely to experience the long-lasting effects of traffic tickets and other misdemeanor offenses like recurring fines, jail time and potentially violent police stops. For poor people, particularly poor people of color, a traffic ticket or other minor infraction can lead to a life sentence.
When Barack Obama became the first African-American to win the White House in 2008, his victory was a turning point in U.S. race relations that set high expectations for progress to come. Nearly eight years later, with Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton attacking each other over racial politics, the legacy of Obama's presidency looks decidedly mixed, black leaders said.
A Florida private investigator was sentenced to 42 years in prison on Monday for using a minor to produce child pornography, which was discovered after authorities searched his computers following his arrest last year for hacking a global charity. Timothy Sedlak, 43, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Roy Dalton in Orlando after a federal jury in May found him guilty on charges including that he produced and possessed child pornography, according to court records.
A slave cabin from Poolesville, Md., is on display in the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, as seen during a media preview tour. The museum's grand opening will be on Sept.
SOUTH EL MONTE >> The city has received yet another criticism of its financial management, this time from the United States Department of Justice. In a letter sent to the city on July 28, Department of Justice auditor Lindsay Taylor said the city has been designated a “high-risk grantee” as of Feb. 20, 2015, and has yet to remedy the problem.
Donald Trump addressed a crowd of more than 3,000 people at the Fredericksburg Expo and Conference Center in Virginia on Saturday evening. Prior to Trump's address, Breitbart News caught up with many rally attendees - which included women, veterans, black Americans, Hispanic Americans, immigrants, seniors and millennials - and asked why they are supporting Trump.
Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk criticized President Barack Obama for delivering money to the Iranian government in coordination with the release of Americans being held prisoner there -- saying he was "acting like the drug dealer in chief." The comments came in a sit-down last week with the editorial board of The State Journal-Register, according to the Illinois paper's political writer.
Whether it's Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, the next president will bring to office unprecedented financial entanglements that could pose significant conflicts of interest, ethics experts say, and there is no law that would regulate them. Since federal ethics rules don't apply to the president, there would be no formal impediment to Bill Clinton doing business with interested parties while his wife is in the Oval Office, or to Donald Trump demanding a tax break for a new golf course from a country that wants U.S. aid.
A U.S. Border Patrol agent detains juvenile immigrants without proper documents near the U.S.-Mexico border on Dec. 10, 2015, at La Grulla, Texas. The number of unaccompanied minors and families crossing the border from Central America has surged in recent months.
Federal Judge G. Murray Snow has asked the US Attorney's Office to file criminal contempt charges against Arpaio and some of his subordinates over failure to follow the court's instructions in a racial profiling case. In May, Snow found Arpaio and three members of his office to be in civil contempt because they allegedly violated court orders designed to keep the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office from racially profiling Latinos.
Stopping the clock in Georgia. In 1964, Rep. Denmark Groover hung over the gallery rail to stop the clock from reaching midnight on the last day of the legislative session.
E... . A portion of the lobbying report filed by Mercury LLC to Congress for the first quarter of 2014 is photographed in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 18, 2016, that shows $70,000 payments for the quarter for lobbying on behalf of Europe... .
A U.S. Navy sailor is facing sentencing for taking photos of classified areas inside a nuclear attack submarine while it was in port in Connecticut. A U.S. Navy sailor has been sentenced to a year in prison for taking photos of classified areas inside a nuclear attack submarine while it was in port in Connecticut.
If you only read one thing: Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is out Friday morning, following a campaign shakeup days earlier and a steady drip of stories about his past business dealings in Ukraine. A veteran lobbyist, Manafort was initially brought in to manage the campaign's delegate operations before the GOP convention, but rose to assume full command in June after pushing out former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski in a power struggle.