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Oberlin College Cancels Classes To Address Racial Incidents

Source: Laura Ly / CNN Oberlin College in Ohio suspended classes Monday after a student reported seeing a person resembling a Ku Klux Klan member near the college’s Afrikan Heritage House. The sighting of the person wearing a white hood and robe was reported early Monday morning and follows a string of recent hate incidents on [...]

Report: North Korea Threatens To End Armistice

Source: Laura Smith-Spark and Jill Dougherty / CNN North Korea threatened Tuesday to nullify the armistice agreement that ended the Korean War in 1953, citing U.S.-led international moves to impose new sanctions against it over its recent nuclear test, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported. The North’s military said it will also cut off direct phone [...]

Teacher Leaves Gun Threat To Class On Blackboard

Source: CBS News LAKE STATION, IND.A high school business teacher has been removed from the school after admitting he posted a threatening message to some of his students on a chalk board last week, reports CBS Chicago station WBBM-TV. The message, written on Friday to a group sophomores and juniors taking a personal finance class at [...]

CNN MONEY: First Furlough Notices Go Out

Source:  Jennifer Liberto / CNN Money The first furlough notices for government employees have gone out. The Army sent letters on Feb. 28 and March 1 to unions warning that employees at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Gunpowder, Md., as well as the Corps of Engineers in Walla Walla, Wash., will be forced to stay at [...]

Florida A&M Band Members Charged

Source: ESPN ORLANDO, Fla. — Prosecutors are charging 12 former Florida A&M University band members with manslaughter in the 2011 hazing death of a drum major. Ten of the band members had been charged last May with felony hazing for the death of 26-year-old Robert Champion, but prosecutors said Monday they are raising the charges [...]

911 Dispatcher To Nurse Who Wouldn’t Do CPR: ‘She’s Going To Die’

Source: Los Angeles Times A fire dispatcher unsuccessfully pleaded with a nurse to start CPR on an elderly woman who was barely breathing. “It’s a human being,” Bakersfield fire dispatcher Tracey Halvorson said. “Is there anybody that’s willing to help this lady and not let her die?” The woman paused. “Um, not at this time.” [...]

Janet Napolitano: Sequestration Already Causing Airport Delays

Source: Alicia A. Caldwell / The Huffington Post WASHINGTON — U.S. airports, including Los Angeles International and O’Hare International in Chicago, are already experiencing delays in customs waiting lines as a result of automatic federal spending cuts, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Monday. Both of those big-city airports routinely suffer security line delays. The Federal [...]

Alleged ‘Smoking Gun’ E-Mail Revealed In Michael Jackson Death Suit

Source: Alan Duke / CNN Los Angeles – A “smoking gun” e-mail allegedly connecting a concert promoter to Michael Jackson’s death was revealed this week as a judge unsealed documents in the wrongful death lawsuit filed by Jackson’s mother and children. The trial next month in Los Angeles could shed new light on the pop icon’s last days [...]

THE BIGGEST DAMN LIE: Fake Tweets Used To Pressure Congress On Gun Violence (VIDEO)

This week’s winner of The Biggest Damn Lie is Texas Republican Congressman Steve Stockman for accusing the White House of using fake tweets to pressure members of Congress on gun violence. MR. MARTIN:  Absolutely, folks.  All right. Also, now, of course, folks familiar with our show – we had this great feature during the campaign [...]

WASHINGTON WATCH: How Will The Sequester Impact Minorities? (VIDEO)

Billions of dollars in cuts to vital programs went into effect on Friday because of the sequester. We were told that would never happen, but it did. There’s no group of people who will feel the impact more than people of color. For example, cuts to long-term unemployment disproportionately affect African-American. Cuts to low-income housing, [...]