Yamiche Alcindor
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Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
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Jared Kushner, who has repeatedly criticized BLM protests, did it again today and said this about black people and President Trump: “He can’t want them to be successful more than they want to be successful.”
A story worth reading.
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Amy Cooper Made 2nd 911 Call to Falsely Accuse Black Bird-Watcher
Prosecutors said Ms. Cooper called the police twice, saying she had not only been threatened but had been assaulted by a man in Central Park who had asked her to leash her dog.
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Amy Cooper, the white woman who called the police on a Black bird-watcher in Central Park, made a second, previously unreported call to 911 in which she falsely claimed that the man “tried to assault her,” a prosecutor said on Wednesday.
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GLAAD Media Reference Guide - AP, Reuters & New York Times Style
In recent years, the nation's leading media style books have published guidelines for language and terminology use when reporting on LGBTQ people and their lives, issues and stories. The Associated Press, Reuters, and The New York Times all restrict...
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Judge Barrett is refusing to answer whether she agrees with Scalia's opposition to same sex marriage and LGBTQ community rights. She is saying that she has never discriminated based on "sexual preference."
Note: "Sexual orientation" is the accepted term.
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Trump Will Undergo Televised Medical Evaluation on Friday Night, Fox News Announces
The stunt will go ahead a day after Trump insisted he was fine while coughing his way through a phone interview.
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President Donald Trump is apparently going to have a “medical evaluation” on television tonight on Fox News.
The reality TV president doing what he does.
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Facebook removes Trump post falsely saying flu is more lethal than Covid
Facebook on Tuesday removed a post from President Trump in which he falsely claimed that Covid-19 is less deadly than the seasonal flu.
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Facebook on Tuesday removed a post from President Trump in which he falsely claimed that Covid-19 is less deadly than the seasonal flu.
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Trump Tests Positive for the Coronavirus
The president’s result came after he spent months playing down the severity of the outbreak that has killed more than 207,000 in the United States and hours after insisting that “the end of the pandemic is in sight.”
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NYT: “Even if Mr. Trump, 74, remains asymptomatic, he will have to withdraw from the campaign trail & stay isolated in the WH for an unknown period of time. If he becomes sick, it could raise questions about whether he should remain on the ballot at all.”
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Secretly recorded tapes show Melania Trump's frustration at criticism for family separation policy and her bashing of Christmas decorations
First Lady Melania Trump was secretly recorded in the summer of 2018 expressing her frustration at being criticized for her husband's policy of separating families who illegally crossed the southern border while at the same time needing to perform...
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First Lady Melania Trump was secretly recorded talking about the Trump child separation policy.
She said, “They said, 'Oh, what about the children that they were separated?' Give me a fucking break.”
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FBI director says antifa is an ideology, not an organization
WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director Chris Wray told lawmakers Thursday that antifa is an ideology, not an organization, delivering testimony that puts him at odds with President Donald Trump, who has...
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President Trump: “Joe Biden says Antifa is just an idea.”
Fact Check:
This month, FBI Director Chris Wray told Congress this about antifa: “It’s not a group or an organization. It’s a movement or an ideology.”
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Kentucky attorney general says he never recommended murder charges in Breonna Taylor case
Cameron is expected to give the grand jury recordings to a judge on Wednesday.
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KentuckY AG Daniel Cameron said Tues that he never recommended murder charges against police officers for Breonna Taylor's death. That’s different than what he said before when he said only that grand jury choose not to indict to any officer in her death.
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Joe Biden's Tax Returns and Financial Disclosures | Joe Biden
Joe Biden is running for president, and he has released his financial disclosures and the last three years of his tax returns.
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.@JoeBiden and his wife @DrBiden along with @KamalaHarris and her husband @DouglasEmhoff
have released their 2019 tax returns today ahead of the first debate and after NYT story on Trump's taxes.
The tax returns from the Biden campaign are here
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In new videos for Biden, Obama and Harris make appeal to Black voters
Former Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign is using the morning of the first presidential debate to make a direct appeal to Black voters to turn out and vote early, rolling out two new video messages on popular Black celebrity news...
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SCOOP: The Biden campaign is releasing two new videos targeting black voters featuring Pres Obama on The Shade Room & VP nominee Sen Kamala Harris on The Young, Black, and Fabulous. They aim to turn out a key group for Biden as polls show a tight race.
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Trump’s Taxes Show Chronic Losses and Years of Income Tax Avoidance
The Times obtained Donald Trump’s tax information extending over more than two decades, revealing struggling properties, vast write-offs, an audit battle and hundreds of millions in debt coming due.
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Incredible:
As President Trump begins his White House briefing, a new NY Times story shows Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency; in his first year in the White House, he paid another $750.
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What a line from The NY Times' latest Trump taxes story: "Ultimately, Mr. Trump has been more successful playing a business mogul than being one in real life."
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Champion Of Gender Equality, Dies At 87
Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court, died from complications from cancer. Her death will set in motion what promises to be a tumultuous political battle over who will succeed her.
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dictated this statement to her granddaughter Clara Spera: "My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed."
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Russians Again Targeting Americans With Disinformation, Facebook Says
The company said it had been warned by the F.B.I. that a so-called troll farm in St. Petersburg set up a network of fake user accounts and a website.
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The Russian group that interfered in the 2016 presidential election is at it again, using a network of fake accounts and a website set up to look like a left-wing news site, Facebook said on Tuesday.
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A new March on Washington through the eyes of Black families -- including Jacob Blake's
Thousands of people gathered on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on Friday to commemorate the iconic 1963 March on Washington -- and to communicate a message of their own, calling for an end to the killing of Black Americans at the hands of...
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THREAD
Jacob Blake’s dad at the March on Washington told me:
“They didn't treat my son like a human. They treated my son like an animal. He was shooting my son while he was pulling my son's shirt to get him closer to him. What sense does that make?”
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Widow: Retired police captain died protecting friend's store
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A retired police captain who died during a night of violent protests was trying to protect his friend's pawn shop, his widow said. David Dorn's last moments were caught on...
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Ann Dorn, the wife of the retired St. Louis Police Captain David Dorn, is delivering an emotion speech about her husband death.
More on that
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The Kenosha Shooting Suspect Was In The Front Row Of A Trump Rally In January
Kyle Rittenhouse’s social media is filled with references to “Blue Lives Matter.”
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NEW: Kyle Howard Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old who was charged with shooting and killing two people and injuring another in Kenosha during protests for Jacob Blake appeared in the front row at a Donald Trump rally in January, BuzzFeed reports.
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Two Killed and One Injured on Third Night of Unrest in Kenosha, Wis.
The violence occurred early Wednesday during a confrontation between demonstrators and a group of men armed with guns as protests continued over the police shooting of Jacob Blake.
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Three people were shot early Wednesday, two fatally, police said, during a confrontation between demonstrators and a group of men armed with guns “promising to protect the property” as protests continued over the police shooting of Jacob Blake.
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Pompeo to Deliver R.N.C. Speech From Israel, With Eye Toward 2024
No sitting secretary of state has addressed a national political convention in at least 75 years.
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This is the first time in at least 75 years that a sitting secretary of state -- @SecPompeo -- has addressed a national convention to nominate a party’s presidential candidate.
More on how much this breaks with history
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RNC speaker Abby Johnson supports policies barring women from voting | The 19th
Anti-abortion activist Abby Johnson has advocated for a head-of-household voting system, which historically barred women from the ballot.
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Abby Johnson, who is speaking now, is an anti-abortion activist who has advocated for a head-of-household voting system that has historically barred women and people of color from casting ballots.
More on her
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