News and Analysis from the United States
By Charles Davis More than three years into the presidency of Barack Obama, it’s almost a cliché now to ask: What if George W. Bush did it? From dramatically escalating the war in Afghanistan to institutionalizing the practice of indefinite… Read More ›
The Huffington Post | By Gene Demby A road sign on a Michigan freeway was hacked early Monday morning and its message changed to “Trayvon A Nigger.” According to Rob Morosi, a spokesman for the state’s department of transportation, someone… Read More ›
A woman from Iraq who was found beaten, lying in a pool of blood in her in El Cajon, Calif., home next to a note saying “go back to your country,” has died and police are investigating her death as… Read More ›
By Aaron Blake / The Washington Post WASHINGTON — Consider this one of the many reasons that Rep. Allen West, R-Fla., won’t be the GOP’s vice-presidential nominee: At an event late Tuesday — shortly after The Washington Post wrote about… Read More ›
by Newsone Staff George Zimmerman, 28, the man charged with murder in the second degree for the February 26 shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, has been called many names in the past weeks, but “DatNiggy” wasn’t one of them…. Read More ›
Pyongyang, March 31 (KCNA) — A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK gave the following answer to a question raised by KCNA Saturday as regards the U.S. moves to exploit the DPRK’s planned launch of satellite Kwangmyongsong-3 for… Read More ›
Trayvon Martin‘s mother, Sybrina Fulton, corrected her earlier comments where she said George Zimmerman’s shooting of her son was an accident. Here is her full statement clarifying her remarks, as provided by msnbc.com: Earlier today, I made a comment to… Read More ›
by Kirsten West Savali George Zimmerman, 28, the man charged with second degree murder in the February 26 shooting death of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, has consistently stated through family and legal council that he returned to his car after… Read More ›
by JOHN ESKOW “You are Free, America, to Do as We Tell You!” What a pitiful spectacle. Ozzie Guillen, the hard-partying eccentric who manages the Florida Marlins, sits weeping in the harsh glare of TV lights, forced by his bosses… Read More ›
By Erin Gloria Ryan Despite the fact that there’s scant evidence in the Bible that Jesus was an asshole who commanded his followers to bully gay children to death, a group of American Christian parents seem to think Christ has… Read More ›
DETROIT — A teacher in southeastern Michigan has been fired for helping students organize a fundraiser for the family of Trayvon Martin, a Florida teenager shot to death by a neighborhood watch volunteer, a national civil rights group said. Brooke… Read More ›
by Michelle Goldberg Governor Scott Walker signed a repeal of his state’s workplace-discrimination law—the latest battleground over the issues that matter most to women. On Thursday, with little fanfare, Wisconsin governor Scott Walker signed a bill repealing the state’s 2009… Read More ›
By Dylan Stableford | The Cutline First it was the hoodie. Now photographs used in the media’s coverage of the Trayvon Martin killing are the subject of widespread debate, as supporters of both the slain 17-year-old African-American and the shooter,… Read More ›
By Cassie Murdoch After Andrew Lohse, the former Dartmouth frat boy who revealed some dark secrets about the hazing rituals that are apparently commonplace on campus, there’s been a lot of discussion about what exactly goes on in the bowels… Read More ›
By Elisha Anderson Detroit Free Press Staff Writer A racial slur appeared on a portable road sign along westbound I-94 in Detroit early today after the sign was hacked, officials said. Motorists began calling police shortly before 1 a.m. to… Read More ›
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