Obama likely to delay immigration executive action until after mid-term elections
200,000 march on Washington, DC for immigration reform, March 21, 2010. Image: Wikimedia Commons/Rrenner.
After the House allowed the Senate immigration bill to die last June, President Obama said using his executive powers would be the means to right wrongs. He promised to confer with his team and share specifics by the end of the summer. But when speaking with news reporters Thursday, it appeared he is stalling until after mid-term elections . . .
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Girl, 9, fatally shoots instructor at Arizona firing range
Charles Vacca teaching 9-year-old to shoot Uzi. Image: YouTube video.
Charles Vacca, a firearms instructor. was shot in the head when a gun recoiled during a tutorial with a 9-year-old girl at the Last Stop Arizona gun range, in White Hills, Arizona. Vacca was struck around 10 a.m. Monday and died at Las Vegas Hospital at 9 p.m. the same night . . .
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Oklahoma city cop charged with sexual assault of black women while on duty
Daniel Ken Holtzclaw, 27, charged with sexually assaulting seven black women while on duty. Image: Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office
Daniel Ken Holtzclaw, a police officer and former Eastern Michigan University football player, was arrested Thursday on suspicion of sexual assault of at least seven women between February and June 2014. All of the victims are black women . . .
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Henry Rollins slams Robin Williams in ‘F**** Suicide’ column
Henry Rollins, musician and writer. Image: Wikimedia Commons.
In an L.A. Weekly blog column, Henry Rollins, former frontman for Black Flag and writer, rebuked Robin Williams for taking his own life.
Admonishing a deceased man for actions he took while alive is futile, especially if the belief is that the dead are no more or are no longer in hearing distance is correct. If Williams could read the column, he might laugh, if it weren’t for references to his beloved family. His wondrous sense of humor allowed him to joke about himself and show compassion toward others as he plowed through pain . . .
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ASU offers female students extra credit for not shaving armpits
ASU students demonstrate shaven and unshaven armpits. (Image: ASU News)
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Michelle Obama fights GOP on school lunch rules
First lady Michelle Obama.
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Zimbabwe’s president urges white farmers to cede land to blacks
Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe, 2009. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
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Obama seeks $2 billion to manage US-Mexico border crisis
President Barack Obama. (Image: theblaze.com)
President Barack Obama will send an alert to Congress Monday requesting $2 billion in funds to stop the influx of child migrants from Central America. The amount is an estimate and a detailed letter will be sent to Congress when it returns from the Fourth of July recess on July 7.
Funding would be used for setting up detention space equipped for children and for halting them from entering the US illegally. From Oct. 1 to June 15, approximately 52,000 unaccompanied minors have entered the US along with another 39,000 children with families.
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UNLV students outraged at Hillary Clinton’s speaking fee (Video)
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaking at UCLA, March 5, 2014. (Image: ucla.edu)
University of Nevada, Las Vegas students are outraged at Hillary Clinton’s $225,000 fee for an upcoming speech. Student body president Elias Benjelloun wants to see the money returned to students who have experienced 17 percent tuition hikes.
Daniel Waqar, a leader in the UNLV Student government said, “You [Hillary Clinton] could give scholarships to thousands of students, benefit research on campus, give more student grants for research and studying … ”
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Mississippi tea party leader Mark Mayfield dies of apparent suicide
Mark Mayfield, vice chairman of the Mississippi tea party, was found dead in his home of an apparent suicide. (Image: clarionledger.com)
Mark Mayfield, vice chairman of the Mississippi tea party, was found dead Friday in his Ridgeland home of an apparent self-inflicted wound to the head.
Mayfield, 57, an attorney, was one of four men accused of conspiring to photograph Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) bedridden wife in her nursing home. Conservative blogger Clayton Kelly posted pictures and a video online which were quickly taken down . . .
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