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Dec 04 2017
News
Trump whines: So unfair disgraced National Security Advisor's lies to the FBI 'destroyed his life'
Departing the White House for Utah, where Donald Trump will announce an early Christmas present to the Koch brothers and other swamp benefactors by announcing a massive rollback of the Bears Ears National Monument, he stopped for a minute to answer questions for the press. After a nonsensical rambling about tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, the stock market and states’ rights, Trump
Daily KosJun 18 2021
News
Juneteenth is a celebration of freedom from slavery. But it didn't mean freedom for all.
Susan Ross was a 3-year-old slave living in Texas when her family learned they were free. Even as a child, she remembered how excited her older brother was when he received the news.
“When my oldest brother hear us is free, he give a whoop, run and jump a high fence, and told mammy goodbye,” she told a government worker decades later as part of the slave narratives collected for the
USA TODAYJul 27 2020
News
Where does the Black Lives Matter movement go from here?
This Saturday marks two months since the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, which sparked a nationwide movement toward racial justice.
In some ways, the U.S. is still in the grip of the response to Floyd’s death, which may have spawned the largest social movement in American history. There are still daily protests in many cities across the country. Bold statements calling
Yahoo! The 360Jul 10 2015
News
FBI: Breakdown in background check system allowed Dylann Roof to buy gun
Dylann Roof, who is accused of killing nine people at a church in South Carolina three weeks ago, was only able to purchase the gun used in the attack because of lapses in the FBI’s background-check system, FBI Director James B. Comey said Friday.
Comey said that Roof should have been prevented from buying the .45-caliber weapon used in a shooting that authorities have said was
Washington PostFeb 27 2013
Opinion
Phil Gramm: Obama and the Sequester Scare
President Obama's message could not be clearer: Life as we know it in America will change dramatically on March 1, when automatic cuts are imposed to achieve $85 billion in government-spending reductions. Furloughed government employees, flight delays and criminals set free are among the dire consequences the president has predicted. If the Washington Monument weren't already closed for
Wall Street Journal (Opinion)Sep 23 2020
News
Trump’s $100 Million Mistake: How Retaining Ownership Of His Hotels Cost The President A Fortune
WASHINGTON, D.C., is full of monuments to presidents, but none quite like the Trump International Hotel, down the street from the White House. A bottle of chardonnay from the Trump winery in Virginia goes for $68. A seafood platter called the Trump Tower, which includes a puny lobster and a dozen oysters and clams, runs $120. And a hamburger goes for $26. The only free thing on the menu? The
ForbesJun 08 2020
News
The Short, Fraught History of the ‘Thin Blue Line’ American Flag
As protests over policing continue to convulse cities throughout the U.S., one symbol keeps showing up: a black-and-white American flag with one blue stripe.Recently, the flag was flown from the back of a car alongside protests in South Dakota, and burned outside the Utah State Capitol. When deputies hoisted the flag outside government buildings in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Orange, California, the
The Marshall ProjectDec 21 2020
News
Robert E. Lee statue removed from US Capitol
A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was removed from the U.S. Capitol overnight.
The statue has stood with America's first president, George Washington, as the state of Virginia's contribution to the National Statuary Hall Collection at the Capitol for more than 100 years.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat, announced on Monday the state will seek to have it
The HillSep 27 2019
News
How attacks on women mobilized Mexico’s ‘feminist earthquake’
They were called vandals and provocateurs.
But Irinea Buendia didn’t mind. She was thinking of Mariana, chanting for an end to gender violence in Mexico, a photo of her murdered daughter hanging by a string around her neck.
This latest demonstration of women was organized under the hashtag #terremotofeminista (feminist earthquake) and controversially called on Sept. 19, the day
Christian Science MonitorAug 18 2021
News
Inside a wildfire response camp: Smoke, devotion, and fried chicken
Amid wildfires of historic scale, the efforts to respond are monumental, yet often go unseen. Meet the firefighting crews and support teams on the front lines of large Western blazes.
Darren Ballentine thinks he knows what it takes to successfully fight a huge wildfire, and he can provide it: meatloaf.
“Good food and good morale make for a safe fire,” says Mr. Ballentine, who is
Christian Science Monitor