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This is just another example of glaring ignorance, bigotry, and mansplaining. A true journalist's responsibility is to uncover the facts, not disseminate a watered-down narrative of an inconvenient truth.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Nearly 70 people have been arrested as police cleared demonstrators from the street in front of the Minnesota governor’s mansion, police in St. Paul said Wednesday. Demonstrators have been camping outside the governor’s residence since July 7, a day after Philando Castile, a black man, was shot and killed by […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 35 years after he tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in an effort to impress actress Jodie Foster, John Hinckley Jr. will be allowed to leave a Washington mental hospital and live full time with his mother in Virginia, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. Judge Paul Friedman wrote in a […]
DANIA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Sheriff’s investigators say a man fatally shot his 1-year-old daughter and injured his 7-year-old son before killing himself during an argument with the children’s mother along a South Florida road. The shooting happened about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday in Dania Beach, which is just south of Fort Lauderdale. Broward Sheriff’s spokeswoman […]
BALTIMORE (AP) — The Latest on the case against officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray, a black man who was injured in police custody (all times local): 3:10 p.m. Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis says the state’s attorney’s decision to drop the remaining charges against three Baltimore police officers was a thoughtful one […]
A woman in Savannah, Georgia beat her 16-year-old daughter on Facebook Live for posting a photo of herself in nothing but a towel, and next to her boyfriend. Despite multiple commenters calling for the mother’s arrest, the Savannah Police Department told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Monday they hadn’t heard anything about the incident. The mother […]
Hoopla and celebration gave way to somber moments as the convention showcased “mothers of the movement” — women whose children died in gun violence. Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin, a Florida teen killed in 2012, said that no mother “would have signed up” for the assignment. Fulton said Clinton has the compassion to […]
PORTSMOUTH, Va. (AP) — It’s a familiar story: an unarmed black male killed at the hands of a white law enforcement officer. But it didn’t take place in Baton Rouge, Minneapolis, or any of the other cities most recently at the center of discussions about police use of force and race. William Chapman II died […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Taking on the role of devoted political spouse, former President Bill Clinton declared his wife Hillary Clinton an impassioned “change-maker,” serving as character witness for her on the night she triumphantly became the first woman nominated for president. “She’s been worth every single year she’s put into making people’s lives better,” […]
Mia Frias-Russell livestreamed her reaction to the vandalism on Facebook. The video has been viewed over five million times.
After Sen. Cory Booker delivered a rousing, well-received speech Monday on the opening night of the Democratic National Convention, praising Hillary Clinton and denouncing Trump, Trump fired back on Twitter, writing, “If Cory Booker is the future of the Democratic Party, they have no future! I know more about Cory than he knows about himself.” […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bill Clinton was once the Democrats explainer-in-chief. Tonight, he’ll be explaining himself. In the four years since the party’s last national convention, the center of gravity in Democratic politics has shifted decidedly to the left. Clinton must finesse some of his administration’s biggest achievements, including a landmark free trade agreement and major […]
