November 2012
November 7th, 2012
Written by The Associated Press in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
WASHINGTON (AP) — A triumphant President Barack Obama pledged to ease the bitter partisan divide on display during his grueling battle for re-election and sure to carry over into his second White House term, while the most pressing of many urgent economic problems looms with a "fiscal cliff" at the end of the year.
Obama captured far more than the 270 electoral votes needed for victory over...
November 6th, 2012
Written by Charles Babingt... in Race & Politics, Latest News with 0 Comments
KISSIMMEE, Florida (AP) - President Barack Obama has a problem with Florida's important Puerto Rican voters, and it has little to do with the immigration and deportation issues that dominate so much of the national debate involving Hispanic voters.
Florida's two biggest Hispanic groups -- Puerto Ricans and Cuban Americans -- have legal statuses not enjoyed by immigrants from other Latin American...
November 5th, 2012
Written by Curt Anderson -... in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
WASHINGTON (AP) — Persistent reports of robocalls incorrectly telling voters they can cast ballots over the phone and fears of aggressive challenges by monitors at polling places threaten to mar Election Day in many key states, voting rights advocates said Monday.
The fake phone calls, some of which involve live callers, continued to crop up in Virginia, North Carolina and Florida, primarily...
November 5th, 2012
Written by The Associated Press in Common Ties That Bind, Latest News with 0 Comments
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge will hear arguments Dec. 11 in Oxford on proposals to desegregate two schools in the Cleveland School District.
In May, the school district filed a proposal with the federal court to desegregate the East Side High School and D.M. Smith Middle School.
The school system wanted to introduce magnet programs at both schools to help attract white students from...
November 5th, 2012
Written by The Associated Press in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue with 1 Comment
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Jewish students in the University of California system labeled terrorists for their support of Israel. Black high school students pelted by bananas on a Tennessee campus tour. A hostile student in Maryland challenging his professor to a fight after the teacher limited the use of cell phones and laptops during lectures.
In a society where anonymous Internet commenters freely...