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News From Around the Web: Feb. 19 Edition
(Photo: Family Photo) In today’s top news, funeral arrangements are set for Janay McFarlane, the Chicago teen who was shot and killed just hours after her sister attended President Obama’s speech on...
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News From Around the Web: Feb. 20 Edition
In today’s top news, President Obama warned that hundreds of thousands of Americans will lose jobs unless Congress takes action soon, mentally impaired Georgia inmate Warren Hill was spared from...
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News From Around the Web: March 12
(Photo: Family photo/Chicago Tribune/ MCT /LANDOV) In today’s top news, Jonylah Watkins, a 6-month-old, was shot dead in Chicago, protests erupted in Brooklyn over the police killing of 16-year-old...
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News From Around the Web: March 21
(Photo: AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed) In today’s top news, President Obama visited the West Bank stressing the need for direct talks between Israelis and Palestinians, Rev. Al Sharpton will lead an...
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News From Around the Web: April 4
(Photo: John Goodwin/Getty Images) In today’s top news, the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. will be honored with a non-violence campaign; Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy...
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News From Around the World: April 15 Edition
(Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images) In today’s top news, divisions between the political parties are undermining the prospects for a bipartisan plan to extend background checks for gun buyers; the...
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News From Around the Web: April 18 Edition
(Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images) In today’s news, the Senate failed to get the 60 votes needed for a measure to expand background checks for gun buyers; an explosion in a Texas fertilizer plant left...
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News From Around the Web: June 18 Edition
(Photo: REUTERS/Andrew Winning) In today’s news, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that states may not require proof of citizenship for people registering to vote; President Obama defended the use of...
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News From Around the Web: Aug. 19
(Photo: REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst) In Monday’s top news, President Obama faces a challenging post-vacation agenda, Egypt’s unrest continues as Islamist detainees die trying to escape; Trayvon Martin’s...
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News From Around the Web: Sept. 12 Edition
(Photo: Iliya Pitalev/Host Photo Agency via Getty Images) In Thursday’s top news, Russian President Vladimir Putin is in the driver’s seat as President Obama delays vote on military action; there were...
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In today’s news, world leaders gathered to mourn Nelson Mandela; President Obama offers a moving tribute at the memorial in South Africa; and President Obama and Cuba’s Raúl Castro shake hands for the...
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News From Around the Web: June 12 Edition
(Photo: Chris Jackson/Getty Images) In today’s news, President Obama says inaction on gun control is his biggest frustration; former President George H.W. Bush is planning to skydive for his 90th...
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News From Around the Web: June 17 Edition
(Photo: Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images) In today’s news, President Obama will sign an executive order banning discrimination against gay Americans; in the World Cup competition, the United States...
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The Rev. Jesse Jackson, hoping to curtail Chicago’s rising murder rate among Black youths, is demanding stiffer gun-control laws. “We cannot just continue to mourn the deaths of our youth – our future;...
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News From Around the Web: April 3 Edition
In today’s top news, five people are dead after a shooting at an Oakland university, new evidence is revealed in the Trayvon Martin case and a California appeals court holds up the state’s affirmative...
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News From Around the Web: April 6 Edition
In today’s top news, Whitney Houston’s mother, Cissy, is “devastated” by her daughter’s autopsy report, pioneering Black journalist Gil Noble has died and it looks like the U.S. Senate may be without...
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News from Around the Web: April 13 Edition
In today’s top news, President Obama says Kanye West is still a “Jackass,” Newark mayor Cory Booker saves a neighbor from a burning house and the National Rifle Association meets for its annual...
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