Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 07/22/2024 - 3:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Navy has exonerated 256 Black sailors who were found to be unjustly punished in 1944 following a horrific port explosion that killed hundreds of service members and exposed racist double standards among the then-segregated ranks.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 07/22/2024 - 2:00am
Two recent Supreme Court rulings on congressional redistricting will have starkly different consequences for Black voters in the 2024 election.
One ruling boosted Black voting power in Louisiana, while another decision upheld a South Carolina congressional map that the lower court had declared “illegal racial gerrymandering.”
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 07/15/2024 - 8:00am
WASHINGTON — Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited U.S. lawmakers Wednesday on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Washington, where world leaders are pledging additional support to the Eastern European nation as it battles Russia’s continued assault.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 07/15/2024 - 6:00am
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania -- Pretty much every elected Democrat in Pennsylvania was out in force on Sunday standing shoulder-to-shoulder with President Joe Biden at different venues as he made his way from Philadelphia to the state capital, starting what his supporters here called his comeback moment.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 07/15/2024 - 4:00am
Think back to the last time you scrolled through your social media feed and encountered a political ad that perfectly aligned with your views – or perhaps one that outraged you. Could you tell if it was from a legitimate campaign, a shadowy political action committee or even a foreign entity? Could you discern who paid for the ad? Chances are you couldn’t.
Between the 1970s and early 2000s the United States saw a 700 percent increase in incarceration, which disproportionately targeted Black and low-income people.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 07/15/2024 - 2:00am
The crew of a NASA mission to Mars emerged from their craft after a yearlong voyage that never left Earth.
The four volunteer crew members spent more than 12 months inside NASA's first simulated Mars environment at Johnson Space Center in Houston, coming out of the artificial alien enviroment Saturday around 5 p.m.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 07/15/2024 - 1:00am
Political parties’ platforms – their statements of where they stand on issues – get little respect. In 2020, then-President Donald Trump mused he might shrink his party’s platform from 66 pages in 2016 to just one page – but ultimately the party just kept the same platform document from four years earlier. Even as far back as 1996, Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole claimed he had never read his party’s platform.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 07/08/2024 - 7:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — In her dissent from a Supreme Court opinion that afforded former President Donald Trump broad immunity, Justice Sonia Sotomayor pondered the potential doomsday consequences: A president could pocket a bribe for a pardon, stage a military coup to retain power, order the killing of a rival by the Navy's SEAL Team Six — and be protected from prosecution for all of it.