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Navy Exonerates 256 Black Sailors Unjustly Punished In 1944 After A Deadly California Port Explosion

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 07/22/2024 - 3:00am

This image provided by Naval History and Heritage Command, shows African American Sailors of a naval ordnance battalion unloading aerial bombs from a railcar, circa 1943/44, in Port Chicago, Calif. The U.S. Navy has exonerated 256 Black sailors who were found to be unjustly punished in 1944 following a horrific port explosion that killed hundreds of service members and exposed racist double standards among the then-segregated ranks.
(Naval History and Heritage Command / National Park Service via AP)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Navy has exonerated 256 Black sailors who were found to be unjustly punished in 1944 following a horrific port explosion that killed hundreds of service members and exposed racist double standards among the then-segregated ranks.

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Voting Rights At Risk After Supreme Court Makes It Harder To Challenge Racial Gerrymandering

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 07/22/2024 - 2:00am

Two recent Supreme Court rulings on congressional redistricting will have starkly different consequences for Black voters in the 2024 election.

One ruling boosted Black voting power in Louisiana, while another decision upheld a South Carolina congressional map that the lower court had declared “illegal racial gerrymandering.”

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NATO Leaders In D.C. Condemn Russia As Zelenskyy Thanks Congress For Ukraine Aid

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 07/15/2024 - 8:00am

WASHINGTON — Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited U.S. lawmakers Wednesday on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Washington, where world leaders are pledging additional support to the Eastern European nation as it battles Russia’s continued assault.

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In Pennsylvania Comeback Tour, Biden Says Dark Brandon Is Back

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 07/15/2024 - 6:00am

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania -- Pretty much every elected Democrat in Pennsylvania was out in force on Sunday standing shoulder-to-shoulder with President Joe Biden at different venues as he made his way from Philadelphia to the state capital, starting what his supporters here called his comeback moment.

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Unregulated Online Political Ads Pose A Threat To Democracy

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 07/15/2024 - 4:00am

Think back to the last time you scrolled through your social media feed and encountered a political ad that perfectly aligned with your views – or perhaps one that outraged you. Could you tell if it was from a legitimate campaign, a shadowy political action committee or even a foreign entity? Could you discern who paid for the ad? Chances are you couldn’t.

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The U.S. Has One Of The Most Punitive Criminal Justice Systems — Unless You’re The President

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 07/15/2024 - 3:00am

Originally published by The 19th

Between the 1970s and early 2000s the United States saw a 700 percent increase in incarceration, which disproportionately targeted Black and low-income people.

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Crew Of NASA's Earthbound Simulated Mars Habitat Emerge After A Year

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 07/15/2024 - 2:00am

In this image made from video provided by NASA, Anca Selariu speaks in front of other members at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
(NASA via AP)

The crew of a NASA mission to Mars emerged from their craft after a yearlong voyage that never left Earth.

The four volunteer crew members spent more than 12 months inside NASA's first simulated Mars environment at Johnson Space Center in Houston, coming out of the artificial alien enviroment Saturday around 5 p.m.

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How Political Party Platforms – Like The Republicans’ Trump-Inspired One For 2024 – Can Help Voters Understand American Politics

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 07/15/2024 - 1:00am

Political parties’ platforms – their statements of where they stand on issues – get little respect. In 2020, then-President Donald Trump mused he might shrink his party’s platform from 66 pages in 2016 to just one page – but ultimately the party just kept the same platform document from four years earlier. Even as far back as 1996, Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole claimed he had never read his party’s platform.

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Supreme Court Opinion Conferring Broad Immunity Could Embolden Trump As He Seeks To Return To Power

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 07/08/2024 - 7:00am

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Chesapeake, Va., Friday, June 28, 2024.
(Steve Helber / AP Photo)

WASHINGTON (AP) — In her dissent from a Supreme Court opinion that afforded former President Donald Trump broad immunity, Justice Sonia Sotomayor pondered the potential doomsday consequences: A president could pocket a bribe for a pardon, stage a military coup to retain power, order the killing of a rival by the Navy's SEAL Team Six — and be protected from prosecution for all of it.

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Democrats May Need the Courage of a Hugh Scott Moment

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 07/08/2024 - 6:00am

Hours after President Joe Biden's feeble debate performance Thursday night that left voters across the country stunned, two of Pennsylvania's most powerful Democrats, Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-Pa.) and Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), pushed back against calls for Biden to step down from his reelection campaign.

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Navy Exonerates 256 Black Sailors Unjustly Punished In 1944 After A Deadly California Port Explosion

Voting Rights At Risk After Supreme Court Makes It Harder To Challenge Racial Gerrymandering

NATO Leaders In D.C. Condemn Russia As Zelenskyy Thanks Congress For Ukraine Aid

In Pennsylvania Comeback Tour, Biden Says Dark Brandon Is Back

Unregulated Online Political Ads Pose A Threat To Democracy

The U.S. Has One Of The Most Punitive Criminal Justice Systems — Unless You’re The President

Crew Of NASA's Earthbound Simulated Mars Habitat Emerge After A Year

How Political Party Platforms – Like The Republicans’ Trump-Inspired One For 2024 – Can Help Voters Understand American Politics

Supreme Court Opinion Conferring Broad Immunity Could Embolden Trump As He Seeks To Return To Power

Democrats May Need the Courage of a Hugh Scott Moment

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