A summer program to teach kids Islamic values battles ???terrorist??? label. Meanwhile, the city has tripled funding for ???alternative??? camps this year.
Speaking to the NAACP, President Obama delivered a fiery sermon to black America, warning parents and children that they must accept their own responsibilities.
The abandonment of a so-called card check provision was an example of the power of moderate Democrats to constrain their party’s more liberal legislative efforts.
AP - A pair of powerful explosions at two luxury hotels killed nine and wounded at least 50 people in an upscale Jakarta neighborhood Friday morning, sending debris and glass flying onto the streets.
AP - Sonia Sotomayor sped toward confirmation as the nation's first Hispanic justice Thursday, encouraged by Republican promises of a quick vote and cheered on by a Democratic senator's challenge to take on the Supreme Court's conservative wing when she arrives.
AP - President Barack Obama on Thursday traced his historic rise to power to the vigor and valor of black civil rights leaders, telling the NAACP that their sacrifice "began the journey that has led me here." The nation's first black president bluntly warned, though, that racial barriers persist.
Explosions tore through two luxury hotels Friday morning in south Jakarta, Indonesia. At least eight people were killed and dozens were wounded, according to a presidential spokesman. Police sealed off the area around both blasts, one of which occurred in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel and the other at the J.W. Marriott Hotel, about 50 meters away.
Authorities have located valuable evidence, including a stolen safe and the gun they think was used to shoot and kill a Florida couple who had adopted 13 children, a state attorney said Thursday. Eight people are in custody in what authorities have called an almost perfect crime.
One hundred years after the birth of the NAACP, the civil rights group tonight welcomed the first African-American president. "One hundred years from now, on the 200th anniversary of the NAACP, let it be said that this generation did its part, that we too ran the race," President Obama told the group's annual convention.
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