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U.S. / NEWS Mon Apr 14, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- The leader of the world's Roman Catholics has been to the White House only once in history. That changes this week, and President Bush is pulling out all the stops: driving out to a suburban military base to meet Pope Benedict XVI's plane, bringing a gian.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Aug 21, 2007 @ 9:37am neoform

www.slepton.com -- Almost a year ago, in the small northern Louisiana town of Jena, a group of white students hung three nooses from a tree in front of Jena High School. This set into motion a season of racial tension and incidents that culminated in six Black youths facing.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 18, 2007 @ 10:25am neoform

Reuters -- Two Secret Service officers were injured on Tuesday after a gun held by another Secret Service officer accidentally fired inside the White House gate, according to a spokesman, Darrin Blackford. Their injuries are non-life threatening, the spokesman sa.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Mar 17, 2007 @ 1:04pm neoform

CNN -- Thousands of Christians prayed for peace at an anti-war service Friday night at the Washington National Cathedral, kicking off a weekend of protests around the country to mark the fourth anniversary of the war in Iraq. Afterward, participants marched w.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jan 24, 2007 @ 10:11am mrmdc

Yahoo News -- A potentially explosive dispute in the City Too Busy to Hate is taking shape over a proposal to break Fulton County in two and split off Atlanta's predominantly white, affluent suburbs to the north from some of the metropolitan area's poorest, black nei.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Apr 10, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- A Richmond man was arrested by Las Vegas police Wednesday in the shooting death of a woman on an East Bay freeway, authorities said. Aaron Myers, 24, was taken into custody without incident, said Pinole police Cmdr. Peter Janke. Two other suspects, Mye.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Oct 18, 2007 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- Fremont police are on the lookout for a man in an older model, white Ford Taurus who tried to kidnap a 12-year-old boy this morning, authorities said. A boy was waiting at a bus stop at Fremont and Peralta boulevards around 8 a.m. when the man pulled u.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Aug 30, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

USA Today -- Of all the images of the civil rights movement, one of the most chilling is a photo of a black teenager in a shirtwaist dress and sunglasses walking through a screaming white mob. Since it was taken Sept. 4, 1957, Elizabeth Eckford has been the face of th.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Aug 18, 2007 @ 1:10pm neoform

USA Today -- The suspect lived in a white stucco building on the western edge of town. Small and dark, his apartment contained no pictures, no food, few personal effects. Just slim plastic boxes, dozens of them, piled high in cupboards and on shelves and in the ref.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Aug 2, 2007 @ 2:26pm neoform

CNN -- Craig Smith's fluffy, white dog Molly went everywhere with the helicopter pilot and reporter: To music practice. To the dentist's office. And, of course, in the KNXV-TV chopper, where she sat calmly on his lap in a pair of custom-made headphones. On Thurs.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Apr 6, 2007 @ 12:51pm neoform

FOX News -- Anti-war and human rights activists plan an unusual take on the Easter egg hunt by holding an Easter cluster-bomb hunt on Monday. Fake cluster bombs made by children will be scattered around Lafayette Park, north of the White House. Hundreds of peop.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Mar 30, 2007 @ 2:30pm neoform

CNN -- More than half a century after 14-year-old Emmett Till was brutally murdered in Mississippi for whistling at a white woman, his family sat down with federal investigators. They discussed the final autopsy on the boy's exhumed body and to heard about th.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Jan 28, 2007 @ 10:08am neoform

Globe and Mail -- They make an odd pair, the battle-hardened 63-year-old black Vietnam War veteran from rural Mississippi and the shy, serious-minded 38-year-old white CBC filmmaker who hails from small-town Ontario... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Dec 22, 2006 @ 12:07pm neoform

New York Times -- HERE is the redacted version of a draft Op-Ed article we wrote for The Times, as blacked out by the Central Intelligence Agency’s Publication Review Board after the White House intervened in the normal prepublication review process and demanded substant.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Nov 18, 2006 @ 4:05pm neoform

CNN -- A teenager described as a white supremacist was sentenced Friday to life in prison for savagely beating and sodomizing a Hispanic boy at a drug-fueled party... Read More