Articles focusing on politics

Video of Cops Dragging Man Behind Car Triggers Outrage

By Bazi Kanani Article Reprint The videotaped death of cab driver who was tied to a police car and dragged down the street is being investigated as a murder,  South African police said today. In

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Protests Mark Anniversary of Travon Martin’s Shooting Death

By Barbara Liston and Jonathan Allen Article Reprint SANFORD, Fla./NEW YORK (Reuters) – Demonstrators symbolically wearing hoodies gathered in New York, Florida and California on Tuesday to mark the anniversary of the shooting death of

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Drug Arrests Drop in Chicago but still Snare Thousands in Black Neighborhoods

by Mick Dumke Article Reprint It’s not exactly the same old war on drugs. As law enforcement officials focus their efforts on violent, big-time drug operations, Chicago police made fewer street-level drug arrests in 2012

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Bad News and Good News about Racial Prejudice

Steve Bogira Article Reprint I sometimes hear from readers that discrimination against blacks, though lamentable, is largely a thing of the past. The readers who say this inevitably are white.

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Raul Castro Says His New 5-Year Term as Cuba’s President will be His Last

By DAMIEN CAVE Article Reprint MEXICO CITY — President Raúl Castro of Cuba announced Sunday that the five-year term he has just begun will be his last, giving the Castro era an official expiration date

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U.S Sues Disgraced Cyclist Armstrong for Sponsor Money

by: David Ingram Article Reprint WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States accused cyclist Lance Armstrong on Friday of defrauding the U.S. Postal Service by taking its sponsorship money at the same time he was doping

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Missouri is Brilliant: Make Gun Control a Felony, Shoot Gun Control Bills, Teach First-Graders the Same

by Abby Zimet Article Reprint Amidst the ongoing, awful litany of senseless gun deaths – the latest in Maryland, California, Nevada – Missouri Republicans have come up with their own innovative responses. As “a matter

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Supreme Court Rejects C-Murder’s Appeal of Murder Conviction

by Roman Cooper Article Reprint C-Murder will remain in prison to serve out his life sentence. The Supreme Court  has denied C-Murder’s appeal of a murder conviction, a last-ditch effort to spring the rapper from

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