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Oct 27 2015
Background
Do Syrian refugees pose a terrorism threat?
Syrians and Iraqis have been fleeing their countries’ civil wars for years, but the refugee crisis grabbed international headlines last month when it forced itself on the European scene.
Brookings InstitutionJul 19 2022
News
Woman at Center of Emmett Till Killing Claims She 'Always Felt Like A Victim' In an unpublished memoir, Carolyn Bryant repeated her denial of wanting the 14-year-old killed.
A week after a 1955 arrest warrant was found for Carolyn Bryant, the Mississippi woman who wrongfully accused Emmett Till of making improper advances, her unpublished memoir has surfaced, with a claim that she tried to prevent the 15-year-old Chicago youth from being killed.
According to the Associated Press, the 99-page manuscript was titled I Am More Than A Wolf Whistle and was
BETNov 21 2021
News
Former Kentucky Secretary of State Faces Ethics Charges
Kentucky’s Executive Branch Ethics Commission accused Democratic former Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes of misusing her office for personal and political purposes, according to an initiating order filed by the commission on Thursday.
The news comes nearly three years after ProPublica and the Lexington Herald-Leader investigated many of the same issues in a three-part series,
ProPublicaOct 13 2016
News
Two Women Say Donald Trump Touched Them Inappropriately
Donald J. Trump was emphatic in the second presidential debate: Yes, he had boasted about kissing women without permission and grabbing their genitals. But he had never actually done those things, he said.
New York Times (News)Apr 20 2021
Opinion
“Woke?” “Cancel culture?” “Identity politics?” The right's reliance on empty rhetoric is getting ridiculous
If right-wing media have legitimate arguments to be made in opposition to Democratic policy proposals, they’re not doing a very good job of articulating what those arguments are. Thankfully, they have a grab bag of buzzwords to fall back on.
Fox News’ Rachel Campos-Duffy dug deep into that bag for the April 1 edition of Fox News Primetime, with a rambling monologue bemoaning that “
Media MattersOct 17 2015
News
Marco Rubio's wake-up call
The hype surrounding Marco Rubio's presidential campaign just smashed into the wall of reality. First, the Florida senator's team insisted it had stashed more campaign cash in the bank than fellow Floridian Jeb Bush -- only it hadn't. The campaign also told reporters it had raised $6 million in the last fundraising quarter -- also not true. That turned out to be an overly generous roun
PoliticoAug 23 2012
News
Romney Led Mormons From Car Crash Tragedy in France
The 21-year-old was driving mission leaders to Bordeaux in June, 1968, when a car driven by a Catholic priest whod been drinking crossed into their lane and smashed head-on into their Citroen DS. The accident killed the Mormon mission presidents wife, who had been seated in the front between her husband and Romney. She was 57.
BloombergMay 30 2020
Analysis
Churches Remain Shut Down While Riots Engulf The Nation
Major cities across the U.S. saw their fourth day of protests and riots Friday night following the death of Goerge Floyd, an African-American man who was killed by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.
On Friday, Chauvin was arrested and charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter.
Violent demonstrators from Minneapolis, to Atlanta however, continue to storm city
The FederalistJul 27 2021
News
Police who defended U.S. Capitol to testify at riot probe's first hearing
Four police officers who worked to defend the U.S. Capitol from a mob of then-President Donald Trump's supporters are due to testify on Tuesday at the first hearing before a congressional committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6 riot.
The House of Representatives Committee was formed after Senate Republicans blocked the creation of an independent commission to investigate the attack.
ReutersAug 01 2021
News
One night in the Bronx: NYPD cops open up about toll of youth gun violence
It was a warm mid-July night in the South Bronx when Police Officer Michael Phipps received an all too common call of “shots fired.”
The first cop on the scene, Phipps came upon a car riddled with bullet holes and saw someone slumped over in the back seat. He grabbed the medical kit he carries with him and rushed over.
“When we open up the door, it’s kind of clear at that point
New York Post (News)