By JONATHAN LEMIRE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The boos were loud. And for President Donald Trump, they may have felt unfamiliar. Trump was showered with jeers, boos and chants (as well as some cheers) when he attended a World Series game at Nationals Park in Washington on Sunday. It was a rare moment of in-your-face […]
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Trump Under Pressure Explicitly Denounces White Supremacists
WASHINGTON (AP) — Under relentless pressure, President Donald Trump on Monday named and condemned “repugnant” hate groups and declared that “racism is evil” in a far more forceful statement than he’d made earlier after deadly, race-fueled weekend clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia. President Donald Trump speaks about the deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., Monday, […]
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Trump Pressured: To More Explicitly Condemn White Supremacists
BEDMINSTER, N.J. (AP) — As President Donald Trump remained out of sight and silent, pressure mounted from both sides of the aisle for him to explicitly condemn White supremacists and hate groups involved in deadly, race-fueled clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia. Trump, who has been at his New Jersey golf club on a working vacation, was […]
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Trump Claims to be Mystified About Necessity of the Civil War and Andrew Jackson’s Views
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump made puzzling claims about Andrew Jackson and the Civil War in an interview, suggesting he was uncertain about the origin of the conflict while claiming that Jackson was upset about a war that started 16 years after his death. FILE – In this March 31, 2017 file photo, […]
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Trump, in Flap with Civil Rights Icon, Meets with MLK’s Son
NEW YORK (AP) — Days before taking office, President-elect Donald Trump attempted to navigate the fallout of his flap with a civil rights leader and colleague of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. while also losing a member of his incoming administration to accusations of plagiarism. President-elect Donald Trump says goodbye to Martin Luther King III, […]
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Trump, Interrupted, Heckled in Visit to Flint Church
FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Donald Trump was cut off, chastised and then heckled after he attacked rival Hillary Clinton during what was supposed to be a speech on helping where the government had failed the people of Flint, Michigan. “Mr. Trump, I invited you here to thank us for what we’ve done in Flint, not […]
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New York: Thousands Peacefully Protest Eric Garner’s Chokehold Death
NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of people expressing grief, anger and hope for a better future marched peacefully through Staten Island on Saturday to protest the chokehold death of an unarmed Black man by a White police officer. Police reported no arrests after the afternoon rally and march that drew well over 2,500 people to […]
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New York: Thousands to March Protesting Eric Garner’s Chokehold Death
Rev. Al Sharpton, left, and Esaw Garner, the wife of fatal police chokehold victim Eric Garner, listen during a press briefing after meeting privately with U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch on Thursday Aug. 21, 2014 in New York. The family of the unarmed Eric Garner, whose death last month in police custody was recorded on video, […]
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‘Central Park Five’ Get $40 Million Settlement
NEW YORK (AP) — All but closing the books on one of the most lurid crime cases in New York history, the city has agreed to a $40 million settlement with five men who were falsely convicted in the vicious 1989 rape and beating of a Central Park jogger, a city official said Friday. The […]
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NYC Mayor Rips Housing Agency after Boy’s Stabbing
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (dih BLAH’-zee-oh) says an “unacceptable bureaucracy” led to the lack of security cameras in a public housing elevator where a child was stabbed to death. A 6-year-old boy was killed and a 7-year-old girl was critically injured in Sunday’s attack. Their assailant remains at […]
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Democrat De Blasio Elected NYC Mayor in Landslide
NEW YORK (AP) — Emboldened by a historic landslide that made him the first Democratic mayor of New York City in a generation, Bill de Blasio seeks to push ahead with an ambitious liberal agenda aimed at easing the economic inequality he hammered in his “tale of two cities” campaign. Voters were drawn to his […]