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Cory Booker: GOP platform on women’s rights ‘an affront to where our nation should be going’
Newark Mayor Cory Booker (D) told a Planned Parenthood Federation of America rally in Charlotte, North Carolina on Tuesday that the GOP’s women’s rights platform is just another reason to reelect President Barack Obama. In a reference to Republicans’ convention refrain that they loved women, Booker told the crowd, “I…
Texas pilot killed in crash during Iowa air show
A video of a Labor Day weekend air show documents the death of a pilot who crashed as thousands of spectators watched. The Amarillo Globe-News reported the pilot was 59-year-old Glenn Smith, who retired from a Dallas-area technology firm to restore and fly Soviet-area fighter jets for air shows around…
Surveillance video shows Maryland police officer firing gun while striking teen
A police officer in Prince George’s County, Maryland is facing criminal charges for assaulting a 19-year-old man in February, and now the public knows why. Video from the incident, filmed by a gas station’s security camera on February 3 but not released to the public until Monday, shows Cpl. Donald…
Ryan: I wasn’t blaming Obama for Janesville plant closing
In an interview on The Today Show Tuesday morning, Republican vice-presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) said criticism about his anecdote about a plant that closed before Barack Obama became president has been misplaced, and that he wasn’t trying to blame Obama for the facility shutting down. “That is not…
Naked man interrupts local news coverage
A local news station was interviewing an Arkansas family about a house destroyed by a fallen tree over the weekend, but were interrupted by a naked man who emerged from the woods. KARK revealed that it was 22-year-old Nathaniel Koba who interrupted the broadcast, and police say he’ll be charged…
Top immigration aide steps down amid sexual harassment allegations
The chief of staff for the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) department has resigned amid accusations of intimidating and sexually harassing male employees. According to the Associated Press, Suzanne Barr, a longtime aide to Homeland Security head Janet Napolitano, is leaving her post “with great regret,” saying in a letter…
Local UAW president: Obama saved our jobs
Ricky McDowell, President of United Auto Workers local 5285, said that organized labor supported President Barack Obama because he saved their jobs. “With the help of President Obama saving the Big Three, and if we had let Chrysler and Chevrolet and GM go down, there wouldn’t be a Big Three,…
Protesters march in Charlotte ahead of Democratic Convention
Around 800 protesters marched through downtown Charlotte, North Carolina on Sunday ahead of the Democratic National Convention. Like the “Occupy Wall Street” protests that have occurred around the country, the demonstration in Charlotte attracted a wide variety of causes. Protesters decried the deregulated financial system, corporate corruption, overseas wars and…
WATCH LIVE: Obama speaks in New Orleans after touring Isaac damage
President Barack Obama makes remarks at St. John’s Parish in New Orleans after touring the Isaac-damaged Gulf Coast. Watch video, courtesy of NBC News, below:…
Labor organizer: American unions lack internal radical, political education
Labor organizer and author Jane McAlevey said Monday that unions’ experience in Wisconsin last year showed the need for political education. “I think the top lesson in our view is that there is not enough internal radical, political education taking place inside of America’s unions,” she told Laura Flanders. “If…
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