2016年2月27日星期六

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Hillary Clinton wins South Carolina as Bernie Sanders flops with black voters

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#OscarsSoWhite creator says will not watch Oscars

Posted: 27 Feb 2016 01:01 PM PST

Oscars stand on the red carpet during preparations for the 88th Academy Awards in HollywoodBy Gina Cherelus NEW YORK (Reuters) - The creator of the #OscarsSoWhite hashtag on Twitter on Saturday said she will watch and tweet about a 1999 coming-of-age movie featuring three black actors rather than Sunday night's showing of the Academy Awards, joining a growing list of activists and entertainers snubbing the event for its lack of diversity. April Reign, managing editor of BroadwayBlack.com, said she will watch "The Wood," starring Omar Epps, Richard T. Jones and Taye Diggs on Netflix on Sunday night as the Oscars show airs on ABC. "What I'm doing is attempting to amplify the discussion," Reign said at Saturday's conference, hosted by the National Association of Black Journalists.


Emails a window into state's Flint crisis-management efforts

Posted: 27 Feb 2016 03:41 PM PST

The Flint Water Plant tower is seen, Friday, Feb. 26, 2016 in Flint, Mich. Flint is under a public health emergency after its drinking water became tainted when the city switched from the Detroit system and began drawing from the Flint River in April 2014 to save money. The city was under state management at the time. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Thousands of emails newly released by Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder provide a behind-scenes look at how his administration tried to manage the Flint water crisis.


How Clinton won battle for black vote in South Carolina

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Trump wants to weaken libel laws amid feuds with reporters

Posted: 27 Feb 2016 08:43 AM PST

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures during a speech to a rally in Oklahoma City, Friday, Feb. 26, 2016. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)WASHINGTON (AP) — Feeling maligned by the media, Donald Trump is threatening to weaken First Amendment protections for reporters if he were president and make it easier for him to sue them.


Mexicans back ex-President Fox in vulgar spat with Trump

Posted: 26 Feb 2016 02:53 PM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 18, 2011, file photo, former President of Mexico Vicente Fox walks on stage to speak at the CATO Institute in Washington. Mexicans backed former President Fox in his verbal spat with Donald Trump on Friday, Feb. 26, 2016, after Fox called the Republican front-runner MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexicans backed former President Vicente Fox in his verbal spat with Donald Trump on Friday, after Fox called the Republican front-runner "crazy" and a "false prophet" and Trump replied that he ought to be "ashamed of himself" for using a profanity.


Deadline expires for homeless at San Francisco tent city

Posted: 26 Feb 2016 05:36 PM PST

A number of syringes are seen in the remains of a tent city being cleared by city workers along Division Street Friday, Feb. 26, 2016, in San Francisco. Homeless people have until the end of Friday to vacate a rambling tent city along a busy San Francisco street declared a health hazard by city officials earlier this week. The mayor's office says about 40 tents remain, down from a high of 140 tents this winter. The tents have lined both sides of a street under a freeway overpass for months, drawing complaints from residents and businesses. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A city deadline for homeless people to vacate a San Francisco tent city came and went Friday evening with no action.


U.S. officials, touring missile defense site, voice concern about North Korea

Posted: 26 Feb 2016 07:33 PM PST

An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches during an operational test from Vandenberg Air Force Base CaliforniaBy David Alexander VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (Reuters) - Senior U.S. defense officials voiced concern about North Korea's nuclear ambitions on Friday as they toured American missile defense sites a day after watching the military test-fire its second intercontinental ballistic missile in a week. Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work and Admiral Cecil Haney, combat commander of U.S. nuclear forces, said they were confident American missile defenses could counter the nuclear threat from Pyongyang despite a mixed record of success in testing. "I think when you look at what it's designed for, and that's a North Korean type problem, I think (I have) a very high confidence that we would have the capability," Haney said after visiting a nondescript metal building where workers assemble the ground-based interceptor at the heart of the defense system.


New Northrop bomber to be designated B-21 -U.S. Air Force

Posted: 26 Feb 2016 12:16 PM PST

An artist rendering shows the first image of a new Northrop Grumman Corp long-range bomberU.S. Air Force Secretary Deborah James on Friday unveiled the first image of a new Northrop Grumman Corp long-range bomber and said it would be designated the B-21, as losing bidder Boeing Co said it would forego further challenges. James revealed the first artist's rendering of the secret bomber, an angular flying wing, at the Air Force Association's annual Air Warfare Symposium. Northrop won a contract worth an estimated $80 billion in October to develop and build 100 new bombers, but work on the plane was delayed for months while federal auditors reviewed a protest by Boeing and its key supplier, Lockheed Martin Corp.


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