Category: National News

(TriceEdneyWire.com) — After more than 14 hours of deliberation over the course of three days, a federal jury has found two NOPD officers guilty of fatally beating a man in Faubourg Tremé nearly six years ago and attempting to cover up the incident. The jury of seven men and five women began deliberating Monday, April 11 […]

(TriceEdneyWire.com) — The California State NAACP this week lambasted a California Republican’s emailing of a cartoon depicting President Barack Obama as being from a family of apes. NAACP President Alice Huffman has issued a statement describing the email sent by Marilyn Davenport, an Orange County Republican Central Committee member, as racist, outrageous, and disrespectful. The email […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Air traffic controllers directed a plane carrying first lady Michelle Obama to abort a landing at Andrews Air Force Base because it was too close to a military cargo jet, officials said Tuesday, in yet another embarrassment for the Federal Aviation Administration. While there apparently was little risk to Mrs. Obama, the […]

BONNETSVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Shards of glass from old bottles and furniture smashed by a tornado that tore through town littered the concrete floor of Rhonda Carter’s antique store, shattering her plans to open an auction house in nearby Salemburg. A storage area in the back was flattened. “I just had a feeling something bad […]

President Obama on April 13 unveiled plans to restore the nation’s fiscal health by reducing the federal budget deficit by $4 trillion in the next 12 years. During a recent speech at George Washington University, Obama explained his comprehensive plan to protect and strengthen America’s economy while rejecting the Republican approach to fiscal stability. The […]

“Foreclosure doesn’t happen overnight,” the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) states on their Web site. But it still happens too quickly for some owners, a trend a new piece of federal legislation hopes to slow. Since the housing crisis began in 2007, there have been more than 6.6 million foreclosure filings nationwide—which […]

The fleet of space shuttles that has orbited the Earth for 30 years will retire as museum pieces in Washington, D.C., Florida and Los Angeles, NASA announced this week. The shuttle Discovery will call The Smithsonian’s Udvar-Hazy Center outside D.C. its home, while the Endeavor will go to the California Science Center in Los Angeles. […]

Ensuring the nation’s financial stability—at least until September—Congress approved a federal budget bill first hammered out between President Barack Obama and congressional leaders last week to avert a government shutdown. While the measure drew bipartisan support, passing through the House in a 260 to 167 vote and the Senate in a 81 to 19 vote, […]

Democracy teeters on the brink of obscurity in Cote d’Ivoire, a tropical West African nation rife with verdant cacao trees and, in recent months, bloodshed. The conflict brewing there stems from a historically sought-after triumvirate — power, money and respect — which illegitimate president Laurent Gbagbo clamored to maintain before his arrest in the nation’s […]

Forces sent by President-elect Alassane Ouattara on April 11 seized former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo. The arrest comes after months of fighting, that claimed lives and uprooted people, ignited by Gbagbo’s refusal to step down following his loss in last November’s presidential election. Gbagbo had been in office for nearly a decade. According to […]

It didn’t quite come down to the 11th hour, but with just over an hour until a midnight deadline, Congressional Democrats and Republicans on April 8 agreed on a budget deal which would keep the federal government open for business. According to multiple news sources, lawmakers reached an agreement just before 11 p.m. Friday night […]

Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Md.) wants the House to salute the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike, when the civil rights movement and organized labor united in a 64-day protest that turned out to be Rev. Martin Luther King’s last campaign. King was lending his Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s support to the striking sanitation workers when he […]