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Aamer Madhani, USA TODAY President Obama on Sunday told the graduating class at Morehouse College, the country’s pre-eminent historically black college, there is “no time for excuses” for this generation of African-American men and that it was time for their generation to step up professionally and in their personal lives. Obama, the country’s first African-American [...]
This is President Obama’s statement on Tuesday at the White House on the tornados that ravaged parts of Oklahoma this week. Good morning, everybody. As we all know by now, a series of storms swept across the Plains yesterday, and one of the most destructive tornadoes in history sliced through the towns of Newcastle and [...]
By Tom Curry, National Affairs Writer, NBC News Attorney General Eric Holder told reporters Tuesday that he recused himself last year from any involvement in an investigation of national security leaks. Holder also announced Tuesday that he has ordered an investigation to see if there were criminal violations in the Internal Revenue Service scrutiny of [...]
The Huffington Post | By Nick Wing Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas doesn’t speak much on the job, but during an interview last month at Duquesne Law School in Pittsburgh, Pa., he offered some candid insight into his thoughts about politics and President Barack Obama. Asked if Obama’s election as the first Black president came [...]
By HOPE YEN WASHINGTON — America’s Blacks voted at a higher rate than other minority groups in 2012 and by most measures surpassed the white turnout for the first time, reflecting a deeply polarized presidential election in which blacks strongly supported Barack Obama while many whites stayed home. Had people voted last November at the [...]
NBA center Jason Collins on Monday announced that he’s gay in a story for Sports Illustrated, becoming the first active player in one of the four major American professional team sports to announce that he is gay. “I didn’t set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. [...]
By Franco Ordonez — McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama tapped Charlotte, N.C., mayor Anthony Foxx as the new secretary of transportation on Monday. The choice is seen as part of an effort to boost the number of minorities in high-level positions on his Cabinet. The nomination of Foxx, who led last year’s Democratic [...]
by Julie Pace, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) April 20 — President Barack Obama declared Friday night that the capture of a second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings “closed an important chapter in this tragedy.” But he acknowledged that many unanswered questions remain about the motivations of the two men accused of perpetrating the attacks [...]
By Maya Rhodan NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – President Obama’s fiscal year 2014 budget focuses on job creation, strengthening the middle class, and cutting the deficit. Those are the overall themes of the proposed budget, which seeks to reduce the deficit by $4 billion, President Obama sticks with his State of the Union promises [...]
AP BOSTON, April 16, 2013 — The bombs that ripped through the crowd at the Boston Marathon, killing three people and wounding more than 170, were fashioned out of pressure cookers and packed with metal shards, nails, and ball bearings to inflict maximum carnage, a person briefed on the investigation said Tuesday. The details on [...]
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