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President Trump Releases National School Choice Week Proclamation

The foundation of a good life begins with a great education. Today, too many of our children are stuck in schools that do not provide this opportunity.

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'New Edition Story' Taps Into Major Love

BET head Debra Lee knows what New Edition means to her audience. The R&B group became a crossover pop success in the 80s. They become heartthrobs as teens and now they're the subject of a three--night miniseries called "The New Edition Story" debuting Tuesday on BET.

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Entrepreneur Launches Unique Party Supply Company That Caters to Black and Hispanic Children

KIESSE LLC, founded by entrepreneur Linda Kiedi, is a company dedicated to the provision of unique party supplies to African American and Hispanic kids. The company, born out of an urgency to meet needs often overlooked by bigger companies, has recently announced its new range of products and services. Birthed in September 2015, they do much more than provide party supplies; They believe in creating an atmosphere of love, self-confidence and boosting general ethnicity acceptance irrespective of backgrounds. KIESSE LLC, founded by entrepreneur Linda Kiedi, is a company dedicated to the provision of unique party supplies to African American and Hispanic kids. The company, born out of an urgency to meet needs often overlooked by bigger companies, has recently announced its new range of products and services. Birthed in September 2015, they do much more than provide party supplies; They believe in creating an atmosphere of love, self-confidence and boosting general ethnicity acceptance irrespective of backgrounds.

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New Web Site Encourages and Helps African Americans to Create and Make Money From Their Own Afrocentric Mobile Apps

Savvier Health, LLC has been granted a license to offer the same easy–to-use subscription-based app creation platform that has been used by tens of thousands of people around the world to successfully publish hundreds of thousands of apps. Their system uses a simple what-you-see-is-what-you-get format to allow subscribers to easily exchange standard text and pictures with their own in hundreds of ready-to-publish app templates. With this system, even the average high school student can churn out multiple apps each month and make money for college in his spare time.

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Hacker to Trump: Fix Your Security Settings on Twitter

The same hacker who breached five hundred ISIS accounts on Twitter has a message for President Trump: change your security settings ASAP.

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Flint Water Lead Amounts Improve, Below Federal Limits

The levels of lead in Flint, Michigan's water tested below the federal limit in a recent six-month study, the state department that oversees water quality announced Tuesday.

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Conway Blames Media for Threats She Says Have Been Made Against Her

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway says that recent threats have forced her to receive an extra layer of security, and she apparently blames the news media.

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How Neil Gorsuch Could End Up as Donald Trump's Supreme Court Nominee

In only a few weeks, Judge Neil Gorsuch has gone from the federal appellate bench in Colorado, to one of the leading contenders to be President Donald Trump's nominee for the US Supreme Court.

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GM Paid $1.3 Million to Buy Back Its Cool 1960s Research Car

General Motors paid over $1.3 million over the weekend to buy back a bullet-shaped single seat experimental car the automaker had built and used in the early 1960s, GM confirmed on Tuesday.

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Super Bowl Gives Small Businesses a Chance to Score

Ayesha James and her husband were living in a Houston hotel in 2016 after their home and all the paperwork for their catering business were destroyed in a fire.

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New Yorkers Start Debate On Free Tuition

New York's ambitious tuition-free plan was debated for more than six hours Tuesday at the state legislature's first public hearing on the matter.

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Trump's HHS Pick: Right to Medicaid May Not Be Guaranteed Under Block Grants

President Trump's health secretary pick acknowledged Tuesday that Medicaid may cease to be an entitlement for the nation's low-income residents if Republicans turn it into a block grant, sending a fixed amount of funding to each state.

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Trump Believes Millions Voted Illegally, WH Says -- But Provides No Proof

President Donald Trump believes millions of votes were cast illegally in last year's election, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said on Tuesday, but he wouldn't provide any concrete evidence for the claim, which has long been debunked.

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Trump Has EPA On Notice

President Donald Trump's administration has ordered ordered a freeze on some Environmental Protection Agency grants and contracts to states, as the department braces for more dramatic changes going forward.

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Academic Behind Voter Fraud Research Said Trump Misinterpreted His Data

One of the academics who produced data suspected of being behind the White House's assertion that millions of illegal votes were cast in 2016 says the Trump administration and other academics are misinterpreting his research.

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McCain: I've seen no evidence of illegal voting

Republican Sen. John McCain on Tuesday cast doubt on the Trump administration's repeated claim that millions voted illegally in the 2016 presidential election, costing Trump the popular vote.

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Trump Says He'll Send in Feds If Chicago Doesn't Fix 'horrible carnage going on'

President Donald Trump, for the first time since taking office, has tweeted about violence in Chicago, saying: "I will send in the Feds" if they don't fix the "horrible 'carnage'" going on.

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President Donald Trump's Thin Skin

President Donald Trump's refusal to let sleeping dogs lie now threatens to harm his presidency.

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Trump to Direct Federal Resources Toward Building a Border Wall on Wednesday

President Donald Trump will take executive action Wednesday directing federal resources toward building a border wall, a White House official confirmed to CNN.

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The Many Challenges Facing Trump's Wall

President Donald Trump is following through with one of the first pledges he made a year and a half ago when he announced his long-shot bid for the White House -- directing federal resources toward building a wall along the southern border.