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Florida Schools Are Forcing Students To Stand During National Anthem

Florida's Orange County Public Schools announced this week that their students must have parental permission if they want to kneel during the national anthem at football games. The move comes after students in at least one school district in the state reportedly knelt in solidarity with 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick's protest against social injustice in America.

GOP Rep. Blasts Kaepernick’s Activism: ‘Sympathetic to ISIS’

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick's recent "activism" is "sympathetic to ISIS," according to Rep. Steve King During an interview earlier this week on the conservative NewsmaxTV's "America Talks Live," King speculated that Kaepernick's "Islamic" fiancA e might have inspired his recent protests. Kaepernick already made headlines this football season with his refusal to stand during the national anthem in protest of oppression of blacks in the U.S. His own protest has inspired other players on other teams to do the same.

Obama defends Colin Kaepernick’s right to protestThe president…

HANGZHOU, China - President Barack Obama Monday acknowledged that for some people it is a "tough thing" to see Colin Kaepernick kneel instead of stand for the American flag and national anthem, but defended the NFL quarterback, saying he was "exercising his constitutional right to make a statement." The flag and anthem have so much meaning for many men and women in uniform and others who have defended the country that the style of Kaepernick's protest may make it difficult for them to "hear what his deeper concerns are," Obama said.

The Latest: Obama says he understands Kaepernick’s protest

President Barack Obama says the NFL quarterback who is refusing to stand for the national anthem is the latest in a long line of professional athletes who have exercised their constitutional right to make a statement about social issues. The president was asked at a news conference Monday about Colin Kaepernick's protest gesture.

Obama Says Kaepernick Exercising Constitutional Right on Anthem

Colin Kaepernick #7 of the San Francisco 49ers stands on the field prior to the game against the San Diego Chargers at Qualcomm Stadium on Sept. 1. President Barack Obama said San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick's decision not to stand for the U.S. national anthem before games is both his constitutional right to exercise as well as a stinging symbol to military members and veterans.

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Long-lost sisters aged 13 and 14 are reunited after one was adopted and taken to Kentucky three years ago, while the other was left at a Chinese orphanage without knowing they were related Santa Clara cops threaten to stop staffing 49ers games if Colin Kaepernick continues his police brutality protest as quarterback insists he's not anti-American 'It was my own insecurities': Lena Dunham responds to Twitter backlash after she accused Odell Beckham Jr of snubbing her at Met Gala Indiana man, 28, who was on the run almost two months after 'kidnapping and raping a woman he chained up in his basement' surrenders to police at court house The secret in the garden: A seven foot deep tunnel is found hidden in the yard under a '$6m West Village apartment block' - and it could have COLLAPSED neighboring properties New York Giants legend Lawrence Taylor is arrested for DUI after 'he hit a motorhome ... (more)

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Two NFL players join Kaepernick's national anthem protest: Crowd boos 49ers quarterback after he kneels alongside team mate and Seahawks player in demonstration against 'inequality' in the US Now the Mexican President calls Trump 'a real threat' - hours after being branded a 'traitor' for going easy on him when the pair met Seahawks player Jeremy Lane joins 49ers' Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid in protest by REFUSING to stand during the national anthem before his game in Oakland Chicago endures bloodiest month in decades with 90 people killed in August alone - more than the number of homicides in New York and Los Angeles COMBINED Hermine makes landfall: A hurricane hits Florida for the first time in 11 years with 80mph winds leaving 100,000 without power What's in a name? Florida hurricane Hermine whips up a storm on Twitter over whether it should be called Hermione - or Harambe Double ... (more)

Kaepernick will sit through anthem until there’s change

Defiant, and determined to be a conduit for U.S. change, Colin Kaepernick plans to sit through the national anthem for as long as he feels is appropriate and until he sees significant progress in America - specifically when it comes to race relations. He knows he could be cut by San Francisco for this stand.

Demaryius Thomas: ‘I Kind Of Just Want To Talk To My Granny’

Demaryius Thomas used the Denver Broncos' celebratory White House visit in June to deliver a handwritten note to President Barack Obama thanking him for commuting Thomas' mother's drug sentence last year and then asked him to do the same for his grandmother. The Broncos wide receiver is ready to pen another thank you note after he was told the president fulfilled his wish.