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Following one of the most tense weeks between police and black communities in recent history, several prominent Republicans said most white Americans don't understand the challenges that come with being black in America. While the lawmakers did not go as far to endorse the positions of activists who protest against racism and police brutality, the politicians acknowledged that many black Americans have a different lived experience.
Most white Americans "don't understand being black in America" and the discrimination African Americans face, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, said Friday. Gingrich, who is among a group of individuals presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump is vetting as a possible running mate, made his remark during a Facebook town hall with Van Jones, a former aide in the Obama administration.
President Barack Obama on Thursday said "all Americans should be deeply troubled by the shootings" of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile. He also said whatever the outcomes of the investigations of these deaths, they are not isolated incidents.
A Michigan man can't sue Pandora for violating his privacy by publicly disclosing his musical preferences on social media because the service is free and the man was therefore not a Pandora customer under state law, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. Peter Deacon sued Oakland-based Pandora Media in federal court in California in 2011, alleging the company violated Michigan's Video Rental Privacy Act when it divulged his musical preferences on its website and on Facebook.
Luis Gutierrez the morning of June 30. About 100 supporters with signs complained that the 4th District congressman was not using his influence as a member of the 15-member Democratic National Convention drafting committee to adequately stand up for immigrants facing deportation. Gutierrez was appointed to the national committee by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, the Romanian-born Holocaust survivor whose classic "Night" became a landmark testament to the Nazis' crimes and launched Wiesel's long career as one of the world's foremost witnesses... A 24-year-old man took a wrong turn, crashed through a fence and ruptured a natural gas line in suburban Detroit, causing a dramatic explosion in the wee hours Saturday that forced the evacuation of nearby... A 24-year-old man took a wrong turn, crashed through a fence and ruptured a natural gas line in suburban Detroit, causing a dramatic explosion in the wee hours Saturday that forced the evacuation of nearby residents and... The chairwoman of the Delta County Republican Party who was accused of favoritism and posting a racist meme on her Facebook page has resigned.
The U.S. House of Representative's Democrats were staging a sit-in-the first of its kind in this video-driven digital age- trying to force House Republicans to vote on a pair of gun control bills. Whatever side of the aisle you're on, this was must-see TV.
When Jim Murphy was a managing partner at DCI Group, the K Street firm distributed 'propaganda' insisting the military junta in Burma was not using rape as a weapon of war. Except for the fact it was.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are virtually tied in the latest surveys compiled in a Lakeland Times Poll of Polls, with Clinton leading Trump by 42.6 percent to 40 percent but well within the polls' margins of error. Tuesday, July 12, 2016 Mike Wolfe, Frank Fritz, and their team are excited to return to Wisconsin! They plan to film episodes of the hit series "American Pickers" throughout the region this August.
Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton, gave birth to a son on Saturday, according to her Twitter and Facebook accounts. "Marc and I are overwhelmed with gratitude and love as we celebrate the birth of our son, Aidan Clinton Mezvinsky," the former first daughter tweeted on Saturday.
A man walks past an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei 225 index at a securities firm in Tokyo Tuesday, June 14, 2016. Asian stock markets mostly lower Tuesday tracking Wall Street's decline, as jittery investors awaited the U.S. Federal Reserve's decision on interest rates and Britain's vote on European Union membership.
As news updates rolled in about Sunday's shooting at Orlando's Pulse nightclub , politicians, public figures, activists and journalists took to Facebook and Twitter to send out unfiltered statements about the significance of the massacre. For prominent politicians in and seeking office, the shooting represented an obligation to comment as well as a challenge, as the tragedy touched on several highly charged issues and themes in the public sphere, including but not limited to: LGBTQ rights, homophobia, Islamophobia, gun control and terrorism.
The City of Orlando has begun releasing the names of victims of a deadly mass shooting at a night club there overnight. In a post on its website, the city wrote: "On this very difficult day, we offer heartfelt condolences to today's victims and their families.
At some point, something has to give. The New York Times Washington Editor has announced on Twitter that he is leaving the social media site in favor of Facebook, due entirely to Twitter's weak handling of anti-Semitic threats to reporters and others.
A North Bergen woman and a veteran law enforcement officer are both challenging current Hudson County Sheriff Frank Schillari in an election race to lead the department. Schillari, who has worked in law enforcement for 38 years, is seeking his third term in office.
Violence erupts at Trump's San Jose rally as protesters fight The Donald's supporters in ugly street brawls leading to several arrests Pictured: Phoenix mom, 29, and her three sons who she 'stabbed to death before stuffing their dismembered bodies in a closet and suitcase and trying to kill herself' 'Hillary has to go to jail!': Donald the counter-puncher clobbers Democratic challenger over her classified emails and says watching her anti-Trump speech was 'like taking Sominex' Illegal immigrants including Afghan embroiled in a terror plot are caught 15 miles north of US-Mexico border after crawling under fence with help of smuggling network Prosecutor WILL NOT charge two white St. Louis cops over fatal shooting of black 18-year-old Mansur Ball-Bey- saying they did it in self-defense Bank of America worker fired after posting vile racist rant on Facebook saying 'f***ing n****rs' should ... (more)
Violence erupts at Trump's San Jose rally as protesters fight The Donald's supporters in ugly street brawls leading to several arrests Pictured: Phoenix mom, 29, and her three sons who she 'stabbed to death before stuffing their dismembered bodies in a closet and suitcase and trying to kill herself' 'Hillary has to go to jail!': Donald the counter-puncher clobbers Democratic challenger over her classified emails and says watching her anti-Trump speech was 'like taking Sominex' Illegal immigrants including Afghan embroiled in a terror plot are caught 15 miles north of US-Mexico border after crawling under fence with help of smuggling network Prosecutor WILL NOT charge two white St. Louis cops over fatal shooting of black 18-year-old Mansur Ball-Bey- saying they did it in self-defense Bank of America worker fired after posting vile racist rant on Facebook saying 'f***ing n****rs' should ... (more)
This post is about Diane Ravitch's recent smears against Bernie Sanders, which she posted first at her blog. I will speak specifically about her remarks in the next part of this piece, but first a few preliminaries.
A Texas education board candidate who claimed that President Barack Obama was a gay prostitute and believes dinosaurs walked the Earth with humans lost her primary runoff Tuesday night just two months after nearly clinching victory outright.