Say you’re on the government’s terrorist watchlist and want to buy a gun. No problem, according to FBI data released last year: From 2004 to 2014, more than 2,000 people listed as known or suspected terrorists bought a handgun, sports rifle or assa ...
Posted Friday, December 4th 2015 at 10:55AM
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They were among Republicans who overwhelmingly voted down a measure that would introduce tighter gun laws by extending FBI background checks on every firearms purchase.
Related: Candidates' NRA ratings: a telling reflection of reactions to San Ber ...
Posted Friday, December 4th 2015 at 10:07AM
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FORT MILL, S.C. — Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson has taken a sharp dive in recent national polls, another substantial setback for the retired neurosurgeon's campaign that comes amid ongoing scrutiny over his grasp of foreign policy issu ...
Posted Thursday, December 3rd 2015 at 12:38PM
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In this special month devoted to our history, The Final Call explores some of the most outrageous and false stories, accounts, and sentimental tales commonly told.
1. Whites were the first people on earth.
2. Blacks in slavery were only cotton pi ...
Posted Wednesday, December 2nd 2015 at 4:44AM
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A white Cleveland patrolman who shot a 12-year-old black boy carrying a pellet gun told investigators that he and his partner continuously yelled "show me your hands" before he fired the fatal shots, according to the officer's statement released by p ...
Posted Wednesday, December 2nd 2015 at 4:17AM
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Richard Franklin Lennox Pryor III born in Peoria, Illinois. He is most well known for his cutting edge stand up comedy and for acting in films such as "Silver Streak". He won five Grammy Awards and an Emmy during his career.
In 2004, Pryor was vo ...
Posted Tuesday, December 1st 2015 at 9:19AM
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Dec. 1, 1955, was the day Rosa Parks became an icon for change. That was when the “Mother of the Modern Day Civil Rights Movement” refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger.
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Posted Tuesday, December 1st 2015 at 9:14AM
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CHICAGO — The Chicago Police officer charged with murder in the 16-bullet, videotaped shooting of a 17-year-old walked out of Cook County Jail Monday evening after posting 10 percent of his $1.5 million bail.
Officer Jason Van Dyke, at the center ...
Posted Monday, November 30th 2015 at 7:12PM
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Go behind the curtain for an exclusive backstage look at the stars, the music and the costumes from this season's most highly anticipated live television event, NBC's The Wiz Live!
CHECK IT OUT: http://www.nbc.com/the-wiz-live/video/the-making-of- ...
Posted Monday, November 30th 2015 at 1:32PM
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Suspected Planned Parenthood shooter Robert Dear is expected to make his first court appearance via video today as authorities continue to investigate the shooting and hours-long standoff at the Colorado Springs clinic that authorities said left thre ...
Posted Monday, November 30th 2015 at 12:51PM
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The first of six consecutive trials of officers accused in the killing of Freddie Gray is scheduled to begin this morning in Baltimore, a city that remains on edge seven months after protests and riots gripped it in the wake of the 25-year-old’s deat ...
Posted Monday, November 30th 2015 at 11:34AM
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CHICAGO — A white Chicago police officer charged with murder after a squad car video caught him fatally shooting a black Chicago teenager 16 times returns to court to learn whether he'll be offered bond.
A Monday hearing for Officer Jason Van Dyke ...
Posted Monday, November 30th 2015 at 11:28AM
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CHICAGO — Lawyers for the family of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old boy fatally shot last year by the Cleveland police, have presented Ohio prosecutors with two outside reports that call an officer’s decision to shoot the boy “unreasonable.”
The repor ...
Posted Sunday, November 29th 2015 at 8:07PM
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President Obama on Saturday called for additional gun control measures in the United States, after the slaying of three people Friday at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado.
In a written statement, Obama said that regardless of the motive, it ...
Posted Saturday, November 28th 2015 at 7:53PM
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Saturday reframed his claim that he saw Muslims in Jersey City, New Jersey, cheering the attacks on the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2001 by asserting the sentiment ...
Posted Saturday, November 28th 2015 at 7:49PM
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A man from North Carolina described as a loner who avoided eye contact opened fire at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic and killed three people, including a police officer, authorities and neighbors said.
Authorities ...
Posted Saturday, November 28th 2015 at 7:17PM
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NEW ORLEANS — The New Orleans police on Friday identified a suspect in a shooting last weekend at a playground that wounded 17 people.
In a statement Friday, police said they are looking for 32-year-old Joseph "Moe" Allen, who is believed to be on ...
Posted Friday, November 27th 2015 at 8:41PM
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A day after he was widely rebuked for mocking a reporter with a physical disability, business mogul and reality TV star Donald Trump on Thursday denied that he had done so and accused the reporter of “using his disability to grandstand.”
Trump als ...
Posted Friday, November 27th 2015 at 8:26AM
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Food pantry in Chicago feeds seniors
November 25, 2015
According to Feeding America, of the 46 million hungry people it helps feed annually, 13 million are over 50
READ MORE: http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/live-news/2015/11/food-p ...
Posted Thursday, November 26th 2015 at 11:11PM
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Protests in Chicago after police release video
November 25, 2015
Dashcam video showing the killing of Laquan McDonald by Chicago officer Jason Van Dyke sparks demonstrations
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Posted Thursday, November 26th 2015 at 11:04PM
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Al Jazeera America has picked up the award-winning documentary to air in February 2016.
LevelK has announced that "Motley’s Law," a documentary that investigates the justice system and human rights situation in post-war Afghanistan, will premiere ...
Posted Thursday, November 26th 2015 at 10:30PM
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Senator Bernie Sanders released his immigration plan on Tuesday. To read it — and every citizen should — is to be yanked back in time, to an America that not so long ago was having a reasonable immigration discussion and a time when major reform had ...
Posted Thursday, November 26th 2015 at 10:06PM
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As millions of Americans sit down to celebrate Thanksgiving today, some Native Americans are pushing back, urging the country to remember the implications of white settlement on indigenous cultures.
As they have for decades, hundreds of people par ...
Posted Thursday, November 26th 2015 at 10:00PM
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New videos raise fresh questions in Chicago police shooting of black teen
Newly released police dashboard camera videos from the scene of the shooting of a black teenager by a white Chicago patrolman could raise fresh questions over documentation ...
Posted Thursday, November 26th 2015 at 9:48PM
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