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Loyal Democrats wonder: Just who does Obama think he is?
Category: National Written by Associated Press
BUILDING LEGACY--In this April 11 photo, President Barack Obama is seen in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
by Liz Sidoti
WASHINGTON (AP) — He wants to slash funding for the Democratic sacred cows of Social Security and Medicare. He doesn't agree with a judge and women's rights groups that girls of any age should have easy access to emergency contraception. He has hinted that he may disappoint environmentalists by letting the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline be built.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 16 April 2013 09:10
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Take the bait? NYPD anti-theft tactics criticized
Category: National Written by Associated Press
SUES CITY--Deirdre Myers poses for a picture near her home in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
NEW YORK (AP) — Sometimes the bait is a small amount of cash in a stray wallet. Or a credit card. Even a pack of cigarettes can do the trick.
Last Updated on Sunday, 14 April 2013 18:05
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Can you really be an 'Accidental Racist'?
Category: National Written by Associated Press
ON THE SPOT-- This combination of file photos shows Brad Paisley, left, in Hollywood, Calif. on Nov. 1, 2011 and LL Cool J in Los Angeles on Feb. 10, 2013. (Photos by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
by JESSE WASHINGTON
(AP)--Southern White men don't usually drive racial dialogue. For as long as race has riven America, they have been depicted more often as the problem than the solution.
Last Updated on Sunday, 14 April 2013 18:13
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Florida police sergeant fired for having Trayvon Martin shooting targets
Category: National Written by CNN
by Michael Martinez
(CNN) -- A Florida police sergeant was fired for possessing several so-called Trayvon Martin shooting targets, authorities said Saturday.
Last Updated on Sunday, 14 April 2013 18:08
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SC man who apologized for racist past dies
Category: National Written by Associated Press
MADE AMENDS-- In this March 4, 2009, file photo, Elwin Hope Wilson holds a framed photo he kept showing a mob he participated in during one of local civil rights "sit-ins" that took place in the early 1960s, in Rock Hill, S.C. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)
Raleigh, N.C. (AP) --Elwin Wilson, the former Ku Klux Klan supporter who publicly apologized for years of violent racism, including the beating of John Lewis, a Black Freedom Rider who went on to become a Georgia congressman, has died. He was 76.
Last Updated on Thursday, 11 April 2013 15:43
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