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Wanda Melton has voted for every Republican presidential nominee since Ronald Reagan in 1980, but now the Georgia grandmother plans to cross over to support Democrat Hillary Clinton. In this photo taken April 25, 2015, a group of women hold signs and shout their support as they wait on line to attend a rally for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
FARM JOURNAL FOUNDATION CONGRATULATES CONGRESS ON ENHANCING GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY Jul. 11, 2016 Source: Farm Journal Foundation news release On behalf of the Farm Journal Foundation, our Farmers Feeding the World leaders across the United States and more than twenty thousand HungerU student advocates, we would like to thank Congress for passing the Global Food Security Act of 2016. This bi-partisan bill affirms U.S. leadership in enhancing global food security, primarily by helping farmers in developing countries produce more of their own food to improve their livelihoods.
Two of the biggest names in college football coaching are returning to their home state this week to help with flood relief efforts, including presenting area football programs with donations from major college programs. Alabama head coach Nick Saban, Florida State head coach Jimbo Fisher and Florida State offensive line coach Rick Trickett will be making their way back to West Virginia this Wednesday, as they are scheduled to make a special presentation supporting area football programs who were affected by the devastating floods on June 23rd .
In the wake of protests in Ferguson, Missouri, where authorities were criticized for what some called heavy-handed tactics against demonstrators, many departments took a more restrained approach.
A border war between titans in the casino world has escalated, with MGM Resorts International stepping up its opposition to a proposed tribal casino project in Connecticut that's supposed to help the tribes fend off competition from MGM's planned $950 million project in neighboring Massachusetts Besides challenging the law which laid the groundwork for the possible satellite casino, MGM was credited last month with proposing the surprise amendment to a federal defense bill. It would have prevented tribes with casinos on tribal land, like Connecticut's Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribal nations, from opening a venture off-reservation in the same state.
WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Cory Booker said Sunday that the recent shootings of police officers in Dallas and two unarmed black men in Louisiana and Minnesota provide another argument against electing Donald Trump as president. "When I hear a presidential candidate like Donald Trump gratuitously demeaning women, demeaning Muslims, demeaning Latinos at a time where our country needs reconciliation, we need people that bind our wounds and build bridges across our chasms," Booker said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
As presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton boarded Air Force 1 with President Obama Tuesday, the wind was most likely at her back. The cloud that hovered over her campaign had seemingly disappeared.
Several hundred protesters gather outside the Infinity Event Center where Donald Trump was to speak at a campaign rally in Salt Lake City, Utah, on March 18, 2016. Former Gov. Mitt Romney has been the spokesman for Republicans who reject Donald Trump, while Sen. Mike Lee is one of the more vocal critics of his campaign in Congress.
A casino border war between Connecticut and Massachusetts has escalated, with MGM Resorts International stepping up its opposition to a proposed tribal casino project in Connecticut. MGM was recently credited with proposing a surprise amendment to a federal defense bill that would have prevented the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribes from opening a casino on non-tribal Connecticut land.
A suburban Minnesota police officer who killed a black driver reacted to the man's gun, not his race, his attorney said Saturday, giving the most detailed account so far of why the officer drew his own weapon. Philando Castile's girlfriend, who streamed the immediate aftermath of the shooting live on Facebook, has said he was shot several times after telling the officer he had a gun and a permit to carry it.
Fun fact to know and share: One of its most enthusiastic supporters was a young Republican congressman from Illinois named Donald Rumsfeld. Yes, that Donald Rumsfeld, the one who was secretary of the Defense Department during the George W. Bush administration.
The US Democratic party's slide toward an increasingly anti-Israel position, led by Senator Bernie Sanders, has been halted, at least temporarily. During a meeting of the Democratic party drafting committee Saturday, supporters of Senator Sanders proposed an amendment to the Democratic party platform which would urge an "end to occupation and illegal settlements," in Judea and Samaria, as part of a general statement in the platform about the promotion of a "two-state solution" to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The two have been through a lot in their lives - long hospital stays, hundreds of regular medications and time getting therapy treatments. The twins from Cedar Falls also learned how to speak eloquently about their cystic fibrosis, and just came back from speaking to their United States senators and congressmen about it in Washington, D.C. "We basically told them the University of Iowa Hospital is important to us, 'cause they saved our lives multiple times," said Maren Denison.
As controversial as all the issues surrounding the immigration debate in the United States may be, most Americans agree that those in the country illegally who have been convicted of violent crimes should be deported. But in some cases, that can be maddeningly difficult when their native countries refuse to take them back.
Bernie Sanders 's delegates were thwarted Saturday in their attempt to push amendments blocking the Trans-Pacific Partnership, following a tense debatethat pitted Sanders backers and the Democratic Party's left flank against Hillary Clinton's supporters and President Barack Obama. The vote came as delegates wrapped up two days of wrangling in Orlando, Florida, on the final draft of the 2016 platform, a non-binding and largely symbolic document which will be officially presented at the party's convention in Philadelphia later this month.
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Republicans are normally hesitant to acknowledge how race can play a role in how an individual experiences life in America. But after two black men were fatally shot by police this week, and after a Thursday night ambush attack claimed the lives of five officers in Dallas , some in the GOP took a markedly different approach when discussing race relations.
When Philando Castile saw the flashing lights in his rearview mirror the night he got shot, it wasn't unusual. He had been pulled over at least 52 times in recent years in and around the Twin Cities and given citations for minor offenses including speeding, driving without a muffler and not wearing a seat belt.