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In final year, Barack Obama seeks to stave off lame-duck status

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In June, during one of the best stretches of his presidency, Barack Obama strode through a West Wing hallway exclaiming, “Offense! Stay on offense!” It was a rallying cry for a White House that suddenly seemed to find its footing in the final quarter of Obama’s tenure. An Asia-Pacific trade agreement was moving forward, as was the diplomatic opening with Cuba and work on an historic nuclear accord with Iran. The Supreme Court upheld a key tenant of the president’s…

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Julie Delegal: Being black matters, researcher says

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Some whites’ approach to the #BlackLivesMatter movement presumes a zero-sum game: If one group is “awarded” national attention on any issue, the reasoning goes, then other groups by contrast, necessarily must lose something. But #BlackLivesMatter doesn’t mean that only black lives matter. It means, rather, that we can no longer pretend that institutions in our country, like our criminal justice system, are race-neutral. It means that we can’t turn a blind eye to disparate treatment for African-Americans, especially when that…

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Marco Rubio visits Charleston church where 9 worshippers killed

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Before attending a town hall meeting Monday night in South Carolina, Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio — without television cameras or any other media in tow — visited the Charleston church where nine African-American worshippers were shot to death earlier this year. Republican Sen. Tim Scott disclosed the Florida senator’s trip before an audience of about 1,000 people attending the town hall meeting he hosted at the North Charleston Coliseum and Performing Arts Center. Scott has invited all 17 GOP…

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Guns-on-campuses bill to come back in Florida Legislature in 2016

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Many higher education officials, teachers and parents cheered this year when a single Florida GOP senator killed proposed legislation that would allow holders of concealed weapons permits to carry guns on Florida college and university campuses. Although the bill  cleared three committees in the House and two others in the Senate, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Miguel Diaz de la Portilla refused to bring up the bill in his committee, killing it outright. The state university system’s Board of Governors, all of…

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Mitch Perry Report for 7.20.15 – Chattanooga is the latest mass killing in U.S.

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Good morning, everyone. Not to start the week off on a rough note, but can we reflect for a moment on what happened at those two military sites in Chattanooga last Thursday? As we all know by now, a naturalized citizen from Kuwait ended up killing four U.S. Marines and one sailor and wounded two others. There are reports that Mohammod Abdulazeez killed because he was upset over the United States’ policy in the Middle East. In reaction, Rick Scott signed an executive…

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Stacy White wants Hillsborough voters to decide whether to keep flag out of County Center

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In an event captured live on all of the cable news networks Friday morning, South Carolina lowered the Confederate battle flag from outside its State House, where it had flow for more than 50 years. The flag had long been a subject of public protests and disagreements in South Carolina, but it took the savage killing of nine black people at a church last month to inspire Gov. Nikki Haley and the South Carolina Legislature to support the removal of…

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Jeb Bush recalls removing Confederate flag from Florida Capitol

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Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush wants voters to know he’s on the side of those calling for the Confederate flag to come down from public places. He’s noting his decision to remove it from the Florida Capitol grounds in 2001 when he was governor. The flag has become a flashpoint since a white gunman killed nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina. Bush spoke Monday at a plant near Columbia, South Carolina. He says the Confederate battle flag has been…

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