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HERNDON, Virginia (AP) — Donald Trump is drawing scorn from veterans’ groups after he suggested that soldiers who suffer from mental health issues might not be as strong as those who don’t. Trump was speaking at an event organized by the Retired American Warriors political action committee Monday when he was asked about his commitment […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The family of a man killed in July by Sacramento police after 911 callers reported he was waving a knife and acting erratically demanded Monday that two officers face murder charges after dash-cam video revealed they talked inside their police cruiser about running him down. He dodged the cruiser twice and […]
The Ashburn Colored School, a historic remnant of education for Black Americans, was vandalized with racist, derogatory messages over the weekend in Northern Virginia.
NEW YORK (AP) — First lady Michelle Obama will mark International Day of the Girl on Oct. 11 by Skyping with girls around the world about education challenges in their lives. The event is sponsored by Glamour magazine’s The Girl Project, which offers education help to more than 50 million girls worldwide. Obama will be […]
MCDONOUGH, Ga. (AP) — Police are investigating the death of a Georgia toddler who was shot at his home in suburban Atlanta. Henry County police Lt. Mike Ireland tells local news organizations the 18-month-old was shot Saturday afternoon. He says the toddler and his 3-year-old brother were in a bedroom with a few other family […]
BRENTWOOD, N.Y. (AP) — The school year in one suburban New York community has started with funerals, fear and frustration. Four teenagers from Brentwood High School on Long Island have been found dead within the past month, all suspected victims of gang violence. On Sept. 13, the day before her 16th birthday, Nisa Mickens’ brutally […]
DENVER (AP) — The leak of some of Donald Trump’s tax returns highlights enormous disparities in the tax code between high-income businesses and individuals and everyone else that may have allowed the Republican presidential nominee to avoid paying federal income taxes for nearly 20 years. Trump claimed more than $900 million in losses in 1995, […]
An off-campus party turned violent in Greenboro, North Carolina this weekend and two North Carolina A&T Students ended up dead. In what was described as an altercation, students Alicia Dieudonne and Ahmad Campbell were shot and later pronounced dead. MyFox8.com reports: “None of what happened had to happen,” said the N.C. A&T student who lives […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Activists on Sunday called on Los Angeles police to publicly name the officers involved in the deadly shooting of an 18-year-old black man near his home and to conduct a quick and transparent investigation. “We don’t want to see a cover-up. We don’t want to see a whitewash,” Earl Ofari Hutchinson […]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — An extremely dangerous Hurricane Matthew moved slowly over the Caribbean on Sunday, following a track that authorities warned could trigger devastating floods in parts of Haiti. The powerful Category 4 hurricane had winds of 145 mph (230 kph) on Sunday evening. Its center was expected to pass to the east of […]
Executives at Tiffany & Co., released a statement on Tuesday denying that the company ever manufactured slave chokers after an image appeared on Facebook of an exhibit at a museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. “We are deeply troubled by the image circulating of a “slave collar” and can definitively assure you that this piece was not […]
A Black Maryland middle school student recorded a video of her classmates chanting a racist slur on their school bus. The video went viral, and adds more evidence of growing student incivility.
