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Aug 24 2016
News
When disaster hits, the lessons we ought to know as a civilization come home with a vengeance.
Tuesday, President Barack Obama landed in Baton Rouge to tour the devastation of the historic flood in South Louisiana. In his remarks to the media during his visit, the president noted, after saluting the various local, state and federal muckety-mucks with him on the riser, the extraordinary efforts of ordinary people in response to the floodwaters.
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May 03 2013
News
'A new Mexico is emerging,' Obama says; speech addresses immigration, education
President Barack Obama said Friday he came to Mexico to break down stereotypes between the United States and its neighbor to the south.
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Jan 07 2021
Opinion
What Trump and His Mob Taught the World About America
The allure of democracy was the nation’s best asset abroad, but the president squandered it by inciting political violence.
We have promoted democracy in our movies and books. We speak of democracy in our speeches and lectures. We even sing about democracy, from sea to shining sea, in our national songs. We have entire government bureaus devoted to thinking about how we can help other
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Nov 02 2020
News
Will your ballot be safe? Computer experts sound warnings on America's voting machines
Millions of voters going to the polls Tuesday will cast their ballots on machines blasted as unreliable and inaccurate for two decades by computer scientists from Princeton University to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Toyed with by white hat hackers and targeted for scathing reviews from secretaries of state in California and Ohio, Direct Recording Electronic voting systems, or
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Jun 09 2020
News
U.S. coronavirus cases surge in southwestern states
Twenty-one U.S. states reported weekly increases in new cases of COVID-19, with Arizona, Utah and New Mexico all posting rises of 40% or higher for the week ended June 7 compared with the prior seven days, according to a Reuters analysis.
The three southwestern states joined hot spots in the South to help push the national number of new infections in the first week of June up 3%, the
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Jun 08 2020
News
Why was George Floyd’s death the breaking point?
Throughout America’s long history of racial violence, certain names have stood out as markers of the struggles of a particular period in time. Emmett Till’s lynching in 1955 drew attention to the brutality of the pre-civil rights era in the South. The beating of Rodney King and acquittal of the officers involved sparked the Los Angeles riots in 1992. The police killings of Eric Garner and
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Jun 08 2020
News
The Short, Fraught History of the ‘Thin Blue Line’ American Flag
As protests over policing continue to convulse cities throughout the U.S., one symbol keeps showing up: a black-and-white American flag with one blue stripe.Recently, the flag was flown from the back of a car alongside protests in South Dakota, and burned outside the Utah State Capitol. When deputies hoisted the flag outside government buildings in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Orange, California, the
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Jan 15 2016
News
Republican debate: CNN's Reality Check Team inspects the claims
The Republican candidates for president gathered Thursday in North Charleston, South Carolina, for their sixth debate,, and CNN's Reality Check Team spent the night putting their statements and assertions to the test.
The team of reporters, researchers and editors across CNN selected k
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Apr 28 2015
News
Rioting rocks Baltimore: Hogan declares emergency, activates Guard
At least 15 officers were injured and 27 people were arrested as crowds of young people protesting the treatment of Freddie Gray moved south through the city setting fire to vehicles and at least one store.
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Dec 08 2013
News
How Mandela Expanded The Art Of The Possible
When I was coming of age in the late 1970s, as an African-American high-schooler and college student, I had two certainties: Nelson Mandela would die in prison in apartheid South Africa and no black person would become U.S. president in my lifetime.
So much for my youthful powers of prediction.
Little could I have known then that I would become a journalist who would one day get
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