SALISBURY, Md. — A “culture of corruption and lawlessness” drove stabbings and drug smuggling at the Eastern Correctional Institution in Westover, according to federal court documents. Eastern Correctional Institution, the largest prison in the Maryland corrections system, is the center of two federal indictments announced Wednesday, by the Office of the U.S. Attorney in Baltimore. Unsealed court documents show drugs, […]
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Clinton crushing Trump by 30 points in Florida Latino poll
Hillary Clinton is walloping Donald Trump by a “historic” 30-point margin among likely Florida Hispanic voters, according to a new Univision poll that shows she’s tied with him among Cuban-American voters who were once a bulwark of Republican support. Clinton’s 58-28 percent lead is a net 6-point shift in her favor since Univision polled the […]
Trump say ‘Undocumented Immigrants Are Pouring Over The Border To Vote’
WASHINGTON ― Donald Trump is accusing the government of letting undocumented immigrants “pour into the country so they can go and vote” in November ― the latest conspiracy theory the Republican presidential nominee is perpetuating to delegitimize the election. “You hear a thing like that, and it’s a disgrace,” Trump told members of the National […]
Rick Scott Refuses To Extend Florida’s Voter Registration Due To Hurricane
Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) refuses to extend his state’s voter registration deadline because of Hurricane Matthew, a Category 4 storm approaching the U.S. southeast coast. The storm, predicted to be the strongest to make landfall in the U.S. in more than a decade, prompted Hillary Clinton’s campaign to call for extending voter registration beyond next […]
Rachel Dolezal tapped to speak at MLK event
CARY, N.C. — Former Washington state NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal, who was criticized last year for passing herself off as black, has been tapped to speak at a North Carolina Martin Luther King Day celebration in January. The Raleigh News & Observer reports the theme of the MLK Dreamfest Celebration in Cary, North Carolina, is […]
‘The Atlantic’ Endorses Hillary Clinton for President
In October of 1860, James Russell Lowell, the founding editor of The Atlantic, warned in these pages about the perishability of the great American democratic experiment if citizens (at the time, white, male citizens) were to cease taking seriously their franchise: One of the animating causes of this magazine at its founding, in 1857, was […]
California’s Long Journey to Legalizing Pot the Right Way
People keep saying it, because it continues to be true: Marijuana legalization is coming to a state near you. This year, nine states have ballot measures that either legalize medical or recreational pot or (in Montana’s case) expand a medical pot program. In the five states where full-blown legalization is on the table, the ballot […]
Top Pentagon aide used government credit card at strip clubs
WASHINGTON — A Pentagon investigation has concluded that Defense Secretary Ash Carter’s former senior military aide used his government credit card at strip clubs or gentlemen’s clubs in Rome and Seoul, drank in excess and had “improper interactions” with women, according to an investigative report released by the Defense Department Thursday morning. The report by the […]
Obama commutes record total 774 prison sentences
President Obama(Photo: Jorge Guerrero, AFP/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — President Obama commuted the sentences of another 102 federal prison inmates Thursday, continuing his move to dramatically reduce the number of inmates in prison for drug crimes. “The vast majority of today’s grants were for individuals serving unduly harsh sentences for drug-related crimes under outdated sentencing laws,” White House […]
44 Afghans missing from military training in U.S.
(REUTERS) Forty-four Afghan troops visiting the United States for military training have gone missing in less than two years, presumably in an effort to live and work illegally in America, Pentagon officials said. Although the number of disappearances is relatively small — some 2,200 Afghan troops have received military training in the United States since […]
‘Brutal’ video shows white officer violently arresting black man sitting on his mother’s porch
Dejuan Yourse was outside his mother’s house, sitting on the front porch in Greensboro, N.C., when two police officers arrived. They’d received a report about a possible burglary and a man with a shovel trying to open a house’s garage. When they saw Yourse on the porch, they asked what he was doing and why he […]
Ivy League professor: ‘I would much rather my own children interact with drugs than with the police’
Carl L. Hart was surprised when a student in one of his classes at Columbia University wrote an essay for The Washington Post about the effect of having him speak frankly about his past and the importance of having non-white faculty members. Hart took the opportunity to respond with his thoughts on race and higher education, […]