By Dan Alexander and Chase Peterson-Withorn Article Reprint One day after president-elect Donald Trump named Wall Street legend Carl Icahn his special advisor on regulatory reform, Icahn gained an estimated $510 million on the stock
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Urge President Obama to establish a study on the impact of slavery in America
Article Submission Earlier this year, Illinois State Representative La Shawn K. Ford introduced House Resolution (HR) 1011. HR 1011, through bipartisan efforts, was adopted by the Illinois House Restorative Justice Committee and unanimously recommended by
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Read moreTrump taps New York financier Vincent Viola as Army secretary
By: David Jackson Article Reprint Kicking off a holiday week of meetings at his South Florida estate, President-elect Donald Trump began filling in his Pentagon staff Monday by nominating infantry veteran and New York financier Vincent
Read moreObama pauses news conference when journalist falls ill
By Daniel Halper Article Reprint President Obama interrupted his televised press conference Friday to give directions to the White House doctor for a female journalist who fell ill. The woman was able to get up
Read moreMuted White House celebration marks Obama Cuba anniversary
BY PATRICIA MAZZEI AND NORA GÁMEZ TORRES Article Reprint It could have been a celebration of one of President Barack Obama’s most significant foreign-policy legacies. Instead, on Thursday, almost two years to the day when
Read moreWas Kanye West Meeting with Donald Trump A Final Move to One-Up President Obama?
By: Jarrod Horton Staff Writer Do not for one second believe celebrities and people who are in a position of power are above being petty. I thought a perfect example of this was the recent
Read moreBaton Rouge’s 1st Black Female Mayor Hopes to Unify a City Torn Apart by Racial Strife
By: Kiersten Willis Article Reprint Residents of Louisiana’s state capital of Baton Rouge elected their first Black female mayor over the weekend. Sharon Weston Broome, a former state senator, will succeed Baton Rouge’s first Black mayor Kip Holden, whose
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