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Justice Sonia Sotomayor gave voice to what hundreds of thousands of people of color have experienced when being stopped and harassed by police. Earlier today, the Supreme Court made a terrible decision to allow evidence obtained by police who've made an unlawful stop be considered in an arrest resulting from that stop.
The percentage of people who have a negative image of Clinton is in the mid-50s. Those who have similarly chilly feelings toward Trump are in the mid-to-high 60s, although in a Washington Post/ABC News poll released last week Trump's unfavorable hit an unheard of level of 70 percent.
From June 17 through 23, our nation celebrates the National Week of Making . This week recognizes that makers, builders and doers - of all ages and backgrounds - always have had a vital role in pushing our country to develop creative solutions to some of our most pressing challenges.
Around the world, 60 million men, women and children have lost their homes because of war and political persecution. There have never been so many refugees in the world as there are today.
When in his 1964 GOP acceptance speech Barry Goldwater declared that "extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice," a reporter sitting near journalist/historian Theodore White famously exclaimed: "My God, he's going to run as Barry Goldwater!" Six weeks into Donald Trump's general election campaign, Republicans are discovering that he indeed ... (more)
As if the Bridgegate blowback couldn't get any worse, fresh evidence of the misuse of government, and Gov. Chris Christie's knowledge of it, has emerged. Newly revealed emails strongly indicate the governor knew staffers in his taxpayer-funded office were courting endorsements for his 2013 re-election campaign, doing his private political work on the taxpayer dime.
Thus began Donald Trump at New Hampshire's St. Anselm College on Monday, before he launched into his speech on national security after Sunday's slaughter at Orlando's Pulse nightclub. He emphasized that political correctness - specifically, President Barack Obama's ongoing unwillingness to use the phrase "radical Islam" - was impeding our understanding of the massacre and our ability to address it.
The vote by Britons next Thursday on whether to stay in the European Union is about more than British interests. Should the nation decide to leave, a strong signal against globalisation and multilateral cooperation would be sent around the world.
Give credit to Nashua Teachers' Union President Robert Sherman, who stood up at Gov. Maggie Hassan's appearance before a Greater Nashua Chamber of Commerce audience and asked a tough question of the governor. ... Subscribe or log in to read more Give credit to Nashua Teachers' Union President Robert Sherman, who stood up at Gov. Maggie Hassan's appearance before a Greater Nashua Chamber of Commerce audience and asked a tough question of the governor.
As mainstream Republicans sit idly while demagoguery conquers what once was the party of Lincoln, it's now up to Democrats to prevent a universally acknowledged catastrophe: a Trump presidency.
Congress has only a few days left to pass a GMO labeling bill through the Senate and House before Vermont's mandatory labeling law takes effect July 1. And while Maine, Vermont and Connecticut have clearly spoken on the issue, there is still discussion in Washington around developing a "compromise" piece of legislation that would pre-empt existing bills in those states. Throughout households in Maine and across the country, this is a nonpartisan issue, with more than 90 percent of people polled reporting they believe they have the right to know whether their food contains GMOs.
Seldom does the monthly status report on Mississippi's economy issued by the University Research Center of the state College Board have any good news and last month's report was no different. But one piece in the report on Mississippi's population growth, or non-growth, caught my eye.
U.S. Sen. John Boozman this week called Senate passage of the National Defense Authorization Act "critical to our national security." "We are a nation at war.
There is satisfaction in even a grim job done well. On Tuesday, doctors at the Orlando Regional Medical Centre described for reporters the onslaught of patients from Pulse Nightclub, only a few blocks away, who filled the hospital's trauma bay to overflowing in the early hours of Sunday morning.
When President Harry S. Truman was personally negotiating with labor leader John L. Lewis to avert an economically crippling coal strike in 1946, the miners' top priority was not higher wages or more vacation but to improve the deplorable state of health care in the coalfields. They succeeded when Truman signed an agreement promising lifelong health and retirement benefits, paid for by a royalty on coal production.
Many Northeast Mississippi residents joined millions of other Americans during the last few days in seeking to regain emotional and personal equilibrium after the early Sunday mass murder of 49 people in an Orlando night club. A sizable group, organized through social media, gathered in front of Tupelo's City Hall on Monday night to express grief and memorialize those killed in the club, whose clientele was predominantly gay and young.