Howard student named university's fourth Rhodes Scholar
The Founder’s Library at Howard University. (Photo by Evelyn Hockstein/For The Washington Post) Howard University senior Cameron Clarke has been selected as the fourth Rhodes Scholar in the school’s history and the first in more than a decade. Clarke, a Richmond native, was one of 32 students to receive the prestigious Rhodes scholarship, established in 1902, out of the more than 850 students who applied from 300 U.S. colleges. Clarke, a double major in community health education and biolog..>> view originalDonald Trump Cancels New York Times Meeting and Pursues Battles With the Press
Meeting with The Times is abruptly canceled.With reporters and editors set to go, the president-elect announced via Twitter around 6 a.m. that he would not be taking questions from editors and reporters with The New York Times, which were to be mostly on the record, unlike his meeting with television news executives on Monday. I cancelled today's meeting with the failing @nytimes when the terms and conditions of the meeting were changed at the last moment. Not nice — ..>> view originalAlt-right leader: 'Hail Trump! Hail our people! Hail victory!'
The president of the alt-right National Policy Institute Richard Spencer's remarks were posted Sunday on YouTube by "Red Ice Radio," which describes itself as "covering politics and social issues from a pro-European perspective." The Atlantic magazine, which is recording footage of Spencer for a documentary they're working on, also published a video of the same event showing audience members apparently giving the Nazi salute."Hail Trump! Hail our people! Hail victory!" he declared. His remarks w..>> view originalJudges Find Wisconsin Redistricting Unfairly Favored Republicans
Photo Election Day voting in Altoona, Wis. A panel of judges found the state’s 2011 remapping to be unconstitutional. Credit Marisa Wojcik/The Eau Claire Leader-Telegram, via Associated Press A panel of three federal judges said on Monday that the Wisconsin Legislature’s 2011 redrawing of State Assembly districts to favor Republicans was an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander, the first such ruling in three decades of pitched legal battles over the issue.Federal court..>> view originalSuspect in Murder of Kansas Mom and Abduction of Her Newborn Allegedly Faked Pregnancy for Months
Authorities have named a suspect in the alleged murder of a Kansas woman and the abduction of her six-day-old daughter, PEOPLE confirms. Yesenia Sesmas, 34, was arrested in Dallas on Saturday following a two-day, multi-state search for newborn Sophia Gonzales, who was allegedly kidnapped after her mother, Laura Abarca-Nogueda, was fatally shot in her Wichita, Kansas, home Thursday. Police believe Sesmas and Abarca-Nogueda knew each other for a few years, Wichita police Lt. Todd Ojile said at ..>> view originalDemocratic presidential electors revolt against Trump
At least a half-dozen Democratic electors have signed onto an attempt to block Donald Trump from winning an Electoral College majority, an effort designed not only to deny Trump the presidency but also to undermine the legitimacy of the institution. The presidential electors, mostly former Bernie Sanders supporters who hail from Washington state and Colorado, are now lobbying their Republican counterparts in other states to reject their oaths — and in some cases, state law — to vote against Tr..>> view originalThe Latest: Philly police say exploding package was 'device'
By Associated Press November 22 at 8:19 AM PHILADELPHIA — The Latest on the explosion of a package in a Philadelphia apartment (all times local): 7:45 a.m. Police Commissioner Richard Ross says a package that exploded in a Philadelphia apartment included an “actual device” that was meant to injure. Federal agents early Tuesday were helping the city’s bomb squad investigate the package that injured the 62-year-old Center City man about 4 a.m. He had received the package Monday evening and ope..>> view originalChattanooga school bus driver arrested in crash that killed at least 5 children
"Five is a cursed number in our city right now .... We are again dealing with an unimaginable loss," Mayor Andy Berke said Tuesday morning. "The most unnatural thing in the world is for a parent to mourn the loss of a child."Of the five children confirmed dead after the Monday afternoon bus crash, three were fourth-graders at Woodmore Elementary School, one was a first-grader and one was a kindergartner, according to Kirk Kelly, interim superintendent for Hamilton County Schools. Six students re..>> view originalWhat will the White House be like with first lady Melania Trump living in New York?
Melanie Trump, right, with her son Barron, who will stay in Manhattan rather than move to the White House, at least until he finishes the school year. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) It’s one of the most enduring rituals of the presidential transition: On Inauguration Day, one first family returns to its home town, while the next moves into the White House. But come January, this tradition will be dramatically upended, as Donald Trump’s wife, Melania, plans to continue living in Manhattan ..>> view originalPolice officers 'keenly aware' they are targets for violence
The shootings of police officers in Texas and Missouri on Sunday were the latest in what law enforcement officials say is an alarming spike in ambush-style attacks.One-third of police officers shot to death on the job this year were purposely targeted by their assailant, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. The San Antonio detective was writing a traffic ticket in his squad car Sunday morning outside police headquarters when he was shot to death. A St. Louis police..>> view original
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