A Cop And A 17-Year-Old Girl Turned A Confrontation Into a Dance-Off
“I never expected cops to be that cool. There are some good cops.”
A cop in Washington, D.C., is getting a ton of praise after she helped break up a group of fighting teens b ...
Posted Saturday, October 31st 2015 at 3:27PM
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On Nov. 19, 2011, Robert Champion stood at the front of his marching band’s bus and prepared himself for pain. Then 26, Champion already commanded respect as an esteemed drum major in Florida A&M University’s world-famous “Marching 100,” which has pe ...
Posted Saturday, October 31st 2015 at 3:16PM
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Arbitration Everywhere,
Stacking the Deck of Justice
On Page 5 of a credit card contract used by American Express, beneath an explainer on interest rates and late fees, past the details about annual membership, is a clause that most customers pro ...
Posted Saturday, October 31st 2015 at 2:52PM
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Clinton's young black challenge
The Black Lives Matter protesters underscore the generational problem she faces with African-American voters.
ATLANTA -- The campaign was set on letting the protesters have their voices heard -- even if it meant th ...
Posted Saturday, October 31st 2015 at 2:39PM
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Mark Levin: FIRE PRIEBUS Enough is enough! And I say that Reince Priebus should be fired over there at the Republican National Committee.
That guy's an incompetent! He's a boob!
FIRE PRIEBUS The RNC has thrown these Republicans under the bus. H ...
Posted Friday, October 30th 2015 at 8:04PM
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The Republican candidates met once again, and we found several claims worthy of fact-checking. Here are some of the highlights from the debate:
• Former CEO Carly Fiorina claimed that 92% of the job losses in President Obama’s first term belonged ...
Posted Thursday, October 29th 2015 at 8:44PM
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Washington, DC — House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) delivered the following remarks after his election as the 54th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives:
Thank you, Madam Leader. Before I begin, I want to thank the family and friends who flew ...
Posted Thursday, October 29th 2015 at 8:21PM
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Ben Carson had a pretty awful debate performance during CNBC's marquee night. He couldn't properly explain his tax plan to CNBC's Becky Quick and then when asked how he would handle pharmaceutical price gouging from JIm Cramer, he said it's because t ...
Posted Thursday, October 29th 2015 at 8:14PM
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Get ready for a bizarre new dynamic in the Republicans’ third nationally televised debate Wednesday evening.
For the first time since this summer, billionaire Donald Trump won’t be at the center of the universe with all eyes riveted on him as the ...
Posted Wednesday, October 28th 2015 at 1:05PM
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A deputy was fired Wednesday after video showed him flipping a teen backward out of her desk and tossing her across a classroom, with the sheriff saying the officer did not follow proper procedures and training.
Richland Co ...
Posted Wednesday, October 28th 2015 at 12:36PM
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WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders is betting on support from an unlikely group — people who don’t typically vote — in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.
A central part of the Vermont independent’s strategy is to draw young people a ...
Posted Tuesday, October 27th 2015 at 10:32PM
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Outgoing House Speaker John Boehner presented his newly forged budget deal to his Republican colleagues at a private meeting this morning, outlining his plan to avert another government shutdown and raise the debt ceiling as a parting gift to his suc ...
Posted Tuesday, October 27th 2015 at 10:28PM
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This is just wrong for a cop to do this in the first place. How would you feel if this was your child? Do you think that this is right?
The Videos That Are Putting Race and Policing Into Sharp Relief: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/3 ...
Posted Tuesday, October 27th 2015 at 12:31PM
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WASHINGTON — After five years of bitter clashes, Republican congressional leaders and President Obama on Monday night appeared to settle their last budget fight by reaching a tentative deal that would modestly increase spending over the next two year ...
Posted Tuesday, October 27th 2015 at 12:14PM
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In the new book, "Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide," MSNBC national correspondent Joy-Ann Reid looks at the history of race relations in the U.S. while tracing the political shifts in the Democratic Party through the relati ...
Posted Tuesday, October 27th 2015 at 10:03AM
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, activist and Presbyterian minister Chris Hedges, whose latest book is "Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle," spoke Saturday at New York’s "Rise Up October" rally and march to end pol ...
Posted Monday, October 26th 2015 at 4:24PM
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On Saturday, thousands rallied in New York City against police brutality as part of three days of protest called "Rise Up October." Some 40 families across the country impacted by police violence participated in the event alongside scholars such as D ...
Posted Monday, October 26th 2015 at 4:20PM
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The OWN Internship Program is a 10-week paid and for-credit learning experience at the Oprah Winfrey Network television channel. Internships are for current undergraduate or graduate college students.
Applicants must have completed at least their ...
Posted Sunday, October 25th 2015 at 8:09PM
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During a recent interview on Fox News about Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson resurrected old claims that the group wants to extinguish Blacks through abortion, according to The Washington Post:
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Posted Sunday, October 25th 2015 at 8:01PM
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Many of us have been faced with the situation of going out for drinks and then having to drive home afterwards. This could potentially be a very unfortunate and sometimes dangerous predicament. Unfortunate because you could easily be pulled over and ...
Posted Sunday, October 25th 2015 at 7:46PM
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Bernie Sanders sharpened the contrast with Hillary Rodham Clinton on a bevy of liberal causes on Saturday, casting himself as a principled progressive before thousands of Iowa Democrats in an appearance that could set the to ...
Posted Sunday, October 25th 2015 at 7:40PM
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Hillary Clinton TestiBefore Thursday’s House Select Committee on Benghazi hearing adjourned for a short break, Republicans and Democrats on the panel found themselves arguing over whether the committee should release various witness transcripts.
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Posted Saturday, October 24th 2015 at 10:58AM
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President Obama compared the Republican White House contenders to Internet celebrity Grumpy Cat on Friday, saying they go out of their way to see only bad news under his administration.
In a speech to the Democratic National Committee Women’s Lead ...
Posted Saturday, October 24th 2015 at 9:52AM
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Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Friday denounced as "pathetic" and "totally ridiculous" a Republican congressman's call to impeach her on her first day in office if she is elected to the White House next year.
Clinton, th ...
Posted Friday, October 23rd 2015 at 10:49PM
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