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Aug 10 2015
News
Gun battle during Ferguson anniversary protest ends with man shot by police
St. Louis County police said a gun battle in Ferguson, Mo. late Sunday climaxed when one of the suspects involved opened fire on plainclothes detectives before being pursued and shot by the officers after a day of peaceful demonstrations in Ferguson marking the anniversary of Michael Brown's death.
Fox News (Online News)
Aug 16 2014
News
Ferguson shooting: Police, protesters clash after disclosures
Anger spurred by the death of a black teenager at the hands of white police officer boiled over again early Saturday morning in Ferguson, Missouri, when protesters stormed into a convenience store — the same store that Michael Brown was accused of robbing.
Police and about 200 protesters began clashing late Friday after another tense day in the St. Louis suburb, a day that included
Fox News (Online News)
Jul 02 2015
News
OPINION: The High Court’s Disunited State
Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court ruling against school segregation, was decided in a unanimous vote, 9-0. The court understood that in decisions that mandate significant societal and cultural change, and that will garner significant opposition, the fact of unanimity is in itself a kind of final argument.
Peggy Noonan
Sep 23 2013
News
Video: Health care: What Obama said, why it mattered
POLITICO senior White House reporter Carrie Budoff Brown with five key statements from Barack Obama on health care and analysis on why they mattered for reform.
Politico
Jul 22 2016
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However divided you think our politics are, this chart shows that it’s actually way worse
A wide-ranging new analysis of congressional-floor speeches finds that political polarization has "exploded" over the past 20 years, and is now "far greater today than at any point in the past." The study, by economists at Stanford and Brown universities and the University of Chicago, analyzed the entirety of the congressional record going back to 1873. The researchers built a sophisticated
Washington Post
Jul 08 2016
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Chief: Suspect in Dallas police slayings 'wanted to kill white people'
A gunman suspected of killing five police officers during a protest march in downtown Dallas late Thursday told negotiators before he died that he was upset over recent police-involved shootings of African Americans and "wanted to kill white people, especially white officers," Dallas Police Chief David Brown said.
USA TODAY
Nov 24 2014
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Ferguson on edge awaiting grand jury decision
Some Ferguson, Mo., schools were closed, a police command center was in place and a St. Louis County grand jury was widely expected to continue its work Monday in determining the fate of the white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black teen in August.
Police officials and protest organizers have collaborated on rules of engagement. Gov. Jay Nixon has declared a state of
USA TODAY
Jun 05 2016
News
Kerry Pulls Strings in Mongolia Ahead of Taut Talks in China
Ahead of what are expected to be tense talks in China beginning Monday, Secretary of State John Kerry blew off a little steam in neighboring Mongolia on Sunday through a friendly archery competition with his counterpart, the foreign minister.
Clad in a navy suit and brown outdoors boots, Mr. Kerry appeared to take the event seriously. He took careful instructions from the professional
Wall Street Journal (News)
May 27 2016
News
The real reason Hillary Clinton has a short VP list
Sherrod Brown looks in some ways like a very tempting vice presidential pick for Hillary Clinton.
He doesn't have an enormous national profile, but inside the Beltway he's known as a stalwart of the liberal wing of the party's congressional caucus. Unlike Bernie Sanders, he's a loyal party man. But he has a similar disheveled populist anti-fashion to go along with an extensive track
Vox
May 05 2013
News
Duke University Hikes Fees To Fund Sex-Change Operations
Duke University plans to raise its student fees in order pay for students' sex reassignment surgery. The private university, located in North Carolina, follows Brown and other universities in offering coverage for the controversial operation.
Fox News (Online News)