Obama uses familiar rhetoric in 'Bloody Sunday' speech
The president sounded a bit like his 2008 self while talking about voting rights heroes.Read More ...
Jeb Bush remarks on ethanol have Iowans reading tea leaves
Bush
gave a nod to free-market conservatives on government subsidies for
industry, but in actuality his position appears to be one of full
support for the Renewable Fuel Standard.Read More ...
CUNY refunds fees to undocumented students who unknowingly overpaid
The majority of undocumented high school graduates don't go to college, despite being eligible for some financial aid.Read More ...
In solidarity with Selma, hundreds cross Brooklyn Bridge
NEW
YORK (AP) — Hundreds of New Yorkers have marched across the Brooklyn
Bridge to mark the 50th anniversary of the landmark event of the civil
rights movement in Selma, Alabama.Read More ...
Fatal police shooting of unarmed 19-year-old prompts protest
MADISON,
Wis. (AP) — The fatal shooting of an unarmed black 19-year-old by a
white police officer, who authorities say fired after he was assaulted,
prompted protesters Saturday to take to the college town's streets with
chants of "Black Lives Matter." The city's police chief said he
understood the anger, assuring demonstrators his department would defend
their rights as he implored the community to act with restraint.Read More ...
2 Nemtsov suspects detained in Russia, prompting skepticism
MOSCOW
(AP) — Russia's security service head said Saturday that two suspects
in the killing of leading opposition figure Boris Nemtsov have been
detained. Russian news reports later cited an official as saying one of
them had served with police troops in Chechnya.Read More ...
Photos: The legacy of the march in Selma
In
this March 7, 1965 file photo, state troopers use clubs against
participants of a civil rights voting march in Selma, Ala. At foreground
right, John Lewis, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee, is beaten by a state trooper. The day, which became known as
"Bloody Sunday," is widely credited for galvanizing the nation's leaders
and ultimately yielded passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. (AP
Photo)Read More ...
On Selma anniversary, Obama says racial progress made but more needed
By
Jeff Mason SELMA, Ala. (Reuters) - With a nod to ongoing U.S. racial
tension and threats to voting rights, President Barack Obama declared
the work of the Civil Rights Movement advanced but unfinished on
Saturday during a visit to the Alabama bridge that spawned a landmark
voting law. Obama, the first black U.S. president, said discrimination
by law enforcement officers in Ferguson, Missouri, showed a lot of work
needed to be done on race in America, but he warned it was wrong to
suggest that progress had not been made. "Fifty years from Bloody
Sunday, our march is not yet finished, but we're getting closer," Obama
said, standing near the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where police and state
troopers beat and fired tear gas at peaceful marchers who were
advocating against racial discrimination at the voting booth. The event
became known as "Bloody Sunday" and prompted a follow-up march led by
civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. that spurred the 1965 Voting
Rights Act.Read More ...
U.S. Republican hopefuls Bush, Walker change their tune on ethanol
By
Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Potential Republican presidential
candidates Jeb Bush and Scott Walker told Iowa voters on Saturday that
they supported government policies to boost ethanol use, a change in
position that could help their prospects in the corn-growing state.
Speaking at an agricultural forum in Des Moines, the two White House
hopefuls said a 2007 law requiring ethanol use should be kept in place
despite their general distaste for subsidies and mandates. The so-called
Renewable Fuel Standard requires motor fuel producers to use an
ever-increasing amount of ethanol and other renewable fuels in an effort
to boost U.S. energy production. "I don't think Washington should be
picking winners and losers," said Texas Senator Ted Cruz.Read More ...
White House lockdown triggered by burning truck cleared
A
security lockdown at the White House triggered by a loud bang just as
President Barack Obama was due to leave was caused by a souvenir truck
catching fire in a nearby street, the Secret Service said on Saturday.
The security alert happened just moments before Obama and his family had
been due to board a helicopter from the presidential mansion's South
Lawn for Andrews Air Force Base. Secret Service spokesman Brian Leary
said the fire had been contained and a vehicle near the White House was
investigated and cleared after a bomb-sniffing dog detected something on
it. Obama and his family left the White House by motorcade instead of
helicopter an hour later and boarded Air Force One at Andrews Air Force
Base.Read More ...
Sen. Menendez, amid probe, says he's honest, law-abiding
NEWARK,
N.J. (AP) — Amid a federal investigation, U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez
insists he has always been honest in his more than 20 years in Congress
and says he is "not going anywhere" even as a person familiar with the
matter says he's expected to face criminal charges soon.Read More ...
Bloody Sundays: Violence against peaceful protesters from Selma to Belfast
President Obama plans to visit Selma to mark the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday.Read More ...
Top U.S. general optimistic about outcome of Tikrit battle
MANAMA,
Bahrain (AP) — The top U.S. general predicts the one-two punch of
Iranian-backed militias and Iraqi government troops will prevail over
Islamic State fighters in the unfolding battle for Tikrit, Saddam
Hussein's hometown.Read More ...
Could an app from Umbrella Revolution be used in presidential election?
FireChat
wants to move beyond its status as an off-the-Web resource to a
messaging service that can be used on the go, and online, to create
massive chat rooms in which campaigns can communicate directly with
their supporters over their smartphones.Read More ...
Ted Cruz’s Texas two-step: Hired gun for Google
Facing an investigation in 2010, the Web behemoth turned to an unlikely ally for help.Read More ...
Battling America’s other PTSD crisis
The
fight that started Keith Davis on a path to a new life began when he
was buying marijuana. It was early afternoon on Aug. 8. As he tells it,
he was in at his usual hangout in North Central Philadelphia, in front
of an abandoned church at 18th and Ridge. He was taking too long mulling
over his purchase, and another man got impatient and told him to go buy
his stuff somewhere else.Read More ...
Ky. interstates packed with stranded motorists after storm
Thousands
of stranded motorists endured agonizingly long waits Thursday lasting
nearly 24 hours for some as a winter storm walloped Kentucky with up to 2
feet of snow and frustrated travelers dealt with gas tanks and stomachs
close to empty.Read More ...
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