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WASHINGTON — Rep. Charles Rangel is again calling for a military draft to highlight the fact that relatively few families are bearing a disproportionate burden in fighting the nation’s wars.
Yesterday, Glenn Beck appeared on the Bill O’ Reilly show and went into a peculiar rant about Michelle Obama. The First Lady, who just left the NAACP’s yearly convention, went to the Gulf Coast to visit those affected by the oil spill. But instead of focusing on BP finding a cap to stop the flow […]
WASHINGTON — A minor earthquake shook residents awake in the DC area early Friday. The quake hit at 5:04 a.m. EDT and had a magnitude of 3.6. The quake was centered in the Rockville, Md., area said Randy Baldwin, a physicist with U.S. Geological Survey’s National Earthquake Information Center. Police in Washington and in nearby […]
NEW ORLEANS — A white man accused of shooting and wounding three black men in New Orleans in Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath has been charged with a federal hate crime.
Police in Paris, Texas, where caught on camera slamming a teenage boy into a police vehicle. RELATED STORIES VIDEO: Man Tortured By Police Reacts To Ex- Police Chief’s Conviction VIDEO: NYPD Beats Iraq War Vet While Handcuffed
From WSJ.com: The number of people filing for unemployment insurance fell last week, but weak industrial output and a drop in wholesale prices point to a slowing in the economic recovery.
KANSAS CITY — The U.S. Postal Service has released a set of stamps honoring early African-American baseball players and their contributions to the nation’s culture and history.
NEW ORLEANS — BP says oil from its broken well has stopped gushing into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time since April.
WASHINGTON — Congress on Thursday passed the stiffest restrictions on banks and Wall Street since the Great Depression, clamping down on lending practices and expanding consumer protections to prevent a repeat of the 2008 meltdown that knocked the economy to its knees.
From USA Today: It was the summer of 1950, and Mary Jean Price, the salutatorian of Lincoln High School in Springfield, Mo., hoped to enroll at a hometown college and become a teacher but But this was four years before Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision that declared denying black […]