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U.S. Secretary of Commerce Announces Henry Childs, II as National Director of the Minority Business Development Agency
Policy Advisor to the White House becomes the 17th National Director of the Minority Business Development Agency
Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that Henry Childs, II will be the new National Director of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA). Mr. Childs will be the 17th National Director of the agency.
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Woodward's revelations raise disturbing questions about Trump
Bob Woodward's charges that top national security staff find themselves compelled to protect the world from President Donald Trump should, in any normal time, precipitate an almost unprecedented national emergency.
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Bob Woodward's new book -- "Fear: Trump in the White House" -- exploded onto the political scene on Tuesday morning.
Published on September 5, 2018
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Kavanaugh: 'No one is above the law'
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh declared Wednesday that "no one is above the law in our Constitution," including the executive branch, as the second day of his confirmation hearing began. But he declined to say whether a president should be forced to respond to a subpoena.
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Paul Ryan on Trump tweets: 'Justice should be blind'
House Speaker Paul Ryan, responding to a question about President Donald Trump's latest attacks on the Department of Justice, insisted Wednesday that "the process is working its way as it should" after two Republican members of Congress were indicted last month.
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Ayanna Pressley's win shows just being liberal isn't enough in today's Democratic Party
On Tuesday night, Boston city councilor Ayanna Pressley crushed 10-term Rep. Michael Capuano in the Democratic primary for a seat that has been held by the likes of John F. Kennedy and Tip O'Neill in the past.
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Kim Kardashian at White House for clemency review session
Kim Kardashian West arrived at the White House on Wednesday to discuss sentencing reform and clemency issues with White House officials, two White House officials told CNN.
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Mercedes-Benz reveals its first all-electric SUV
Mercedes-Benz revealed its first fully electric SUV in Stockholm Tuesday, another in a small rush of all-electric luxury vehicles expected to hit the market in the next couple of years.
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The Mercedes-Benz EQC is differentiated by a black band running under the grill and a bar of white light above it.
Published on September 4, 2018
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Why Nike is betting its slogan on Colin Kaepernick
Nike is siding with Colin Kaepernick because he sells. By making the quarterback a face of its 30th anniversary "Just Do It" campaign, the company believes it will earn support from its core customers: Young shoppers in big cities across the globe.
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Trump amps up attacks on Woodward after explosive book excerpts
President Donald Trump on Tuesday evening amped up his attacks on veteran journalist Bob Woodward, baselessly suggesting he is a Democratic operative because his new book portrays chaos and dysfunction inside the White House.
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Exclusive: Meet Facebook's top troll hunter
Nathaniel Gleicher may well have the toughest job in tech right now. Gleicher, a former prosecutor with the Justice Department, has been given the unenviable task of ridding Facebook of foreign trolls and state-run disinformation campaigns of the sort that wreaked havoc on the 2016 US presidential election -- and threaten to do the same in November.
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For the Love of the Game: Ballparks Across the U.S. To Celebrate the Dominican Republic’s Contribution to the Major League Baseball
The Dominican Republic Day at the Park series runs Aug. 29 - Sep. 26
To honor the passion and contribution of Dominican Republic to the sport of baseball, ballparks across the country will host Dominican Republic Day at the Park. Kicking-off Wednesday, August 29, at Yankee Stadium, the series will offer a salute to past and current Dominican players that have given so much to the game and helped make the sport what it is today.
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Inside McCain's surprise eulogy invitation to Obama
A parting lesson in American civility from Sen. John McCain lies in the roster of leaders he personally selected to pay tribute at his memorial service Saturday at the National Cathedral.
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Op-Ed from Senator Borris L. Miles on Fort Bend ISD
Today, 53 years after the enactment of the Voting Rights Act, Jim Crow still dares to raise its head in Texas. While we celebrate the gains made in minority representation and self-determination, we cannot ignore the fact that in places such as the Fort Bend Independent School District (FBISD), racially-exclusive tactics still bar access to power in decisions affecting thousands of children of color and hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars.
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Trump's bet on Kim Jong Un is looking increasingly shaky
President Donald Trump took a huge risk by holding a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and hailing it as a stunning history-changing success.
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Former Texas officer convicted in death of Jordan Edwards
A former police officer in the Dallas suburb of Balch Springs was found guilty of murder Tuesday in the shooting of Jordan Edwards, an unarmed black teen who was a passenger in a car that had left a party.
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Bernie-backed progressive Andrew Gillum will face a Trump-styled Republican in Florida's governor's race
Florida's high-stakes gubernatorial race will be fought between a progressive Democrat vying to become the state's first black chief executive and a Republican congressman closely allied with President Donald Trump.
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Mike Pence's plan to outlast Trump
Now familiar as a smiling, nodding presence at the President's side, Mike Pence was little known outside of his home state of Indiana when Donald Trump selected him as his running mate in 2016. A bit more than two years later, as he crisscrosses America to campaign for Republicans in the midterm elections, Pence is setting himself up to replace his boss if Trump leaves office early or does not seek re-election.
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R.I.P. George Walker, 96, Trailblazing American Composer and Pulitzer Prize Winner
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, pianist and educator George Walker has died at the age of 96. Walker’s death was announced to NPR by one of his family members, Karen Schaefer, who said he died Thursday at Mountainside Hospital in Montclair, N.J. after a fall.
