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Even as questions emerge over whether he dodged the Vietnam draft, billionaire businessman and ex-reality TV star Donald Trump has nearly twice the support of his closest rival for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, according to various media reports. Trump is the favorite of 24 percent of registered Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, even amid fresh controversies […]
Capping off a week of events and political actions to tackle prison reform, President Obama on Thursday became the first sitting president to visit a federal prison when he stepped through the doors of Oklahoma’s El Reno to talk to inmates and law enforcement officers about the current state of our criminal justice system. Literally […]
“Any civilized country should have no tolerance for rape.” —@POTUShttp://t.co/RvsEIxDDoY — The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 15, 2015 In a Wednesday White House press conference to discuss the recent Iranian nuclear deal, President Obama addressed the sexual assault allegations against comedian Bill Cosby, saying the accusations constitute rape. When asked about a petition to revoke Cosby’s […]
According to reports, 84-year-old Archbishop Desmond Tutu was recently hospitalized for an infection. Tutu, who is a Nobel Peace Prize winner, has battled with health issues for years. He was admitted to a Cape Town hospital on Tuesday. Reverend Canon Mpho Tutu, one of his children, said the family hopes he will return home soon. In […]
In a week chock-full of events and political moves that highlight the need for criminal justice reform in the nation, President Barack Obama traveled to Philadelphia Tuesday to deliver remarks focused on policing and prisons at the NAACP’s 106th National Convention. Just a day prior, Obama granted clemency to 46 non-violent drug offenders; the most a president […]
President Barack Obama on Tuesday praised a historic world power agreement with Iran that curbs the country’s nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief, almost ensuring that the country cannot achieve rapid nuclear weapons capabilities for at least the next decade, according to The Washington Post. “We have stopped the spread of nuclear weapons in this […]
NewsOne’s Politicker blog tackles some of the most important topics in politics: Election 2016, moves by the Obama administration, voting rights, lawmaking, and the way that elected officials represent our communities. Three times a week, we will go beyond the mainstream media’s “pack” coverage of politics to highlight the underreported aspects of how politics and policy […]
Democratic presidential candidate Jim Webb said the Democratic party has “moved way far to the left,” in an interview with Fox News Sunday; he also backed southern White cultures during a discussion about the Confederate Flag. Isolating himself from the liberal likes of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, Webb told Fox News’ Bret Baier that the recent […]
In an effort to recruit Democratic-leaning Black and urban voters, the Republican National Committee has launched a four-week Ohio campaign that will focus on outreach and mobilization ahead of the November 2016 presidential election, reports Cleveland.com. The campaign, called “#CommittedToCommunity: Engage, Empower, Uplift,” is slated to end Aug. 6, the date of the first GOP […]
In a visit where he is expected to push for criminal-justice reform, President Barack Obama will become the first sitting president to visit a federal prison when he travels to Oklahoma next week. On Thursday, Obama will meet with law enforcement officials and inmates at El Reno Federal Correctional Institution outside Oklahoma City. According to a […]
After insulting Mexican immigrants in America, grandiloquent billionaire Donald Trump has blasted his way to the top of the list of Republican presidential candidates in a crowded field that includes several high-profile elected officials, reports The Hill. A new Economist/YouGov poll shows that Trump was the preferred GOP nominee for 15 percent of respondents — […]
Controversial GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump told CNN Wednesday that he will ultimately win the Latino vote, and knocked Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton for promoting what he called an immigration policy that would “let everybody come in… killers, criminals, drug dealers,” according to NBC News. From NBC: “I have a great relationship with the Mexican […]