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Week In Review

Irma pushes Florida’s poor closer to the edge of ruin

September 15, 2017

ABOVE PHOTO:  The remains of a house destroyed by Hurricane Irma are seen in Goodland, Fla., Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017. (AP Photo/David Goldman)   By Jay Reeves Associated Press IMMOKALEE, Fla.  — Larry and Elida Dimas didn’t have much to begin with, and Hurricane Irma left them with even less. The storm peeled open the…

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New Hampshire cops silent after White teens attack 8-year-old biracial boy

September 15, 2017

ABOVE PHOTO:  An 8-year-old Claremont, N.H., resident suffered rope burns after an Aug. 28, 2017, incident involving teenagers. The incident is under investigation.  (Courtesy photograph)   Relatives and community activists are demanding that police release more details about the assault. By NewsOne Staff newsone.com Local activists in Claremont, New Hampshire are demanding that police officials…

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Solemn, personal ceremonies as US commemorates 9/11

September 14, 2017

ABOVE PHOTO:  In this Friday, Sept. 8, 2017 photo, the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, bottom, is surrounded by high-rise towers in New York. The new towers are: WTC 1, second from left, WTC 7, third from left, WTC 3, second from right, and WTC 4, right. Monday will mark the sixteenth anniversary of…

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South Korea simulates attack on North’s nuke site after test

September 8, 2017

ABOVE PHOTO:  In this undated image distributed on Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017, by the North Korean government, shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at an undisclosed location. North Korea’s state media on Sunday, Sept 3, 2017, said leader Kim Jong Un inspected the loading of a hydrogen bomb into a new intercontinental ballistic missile,…

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Trump orders end to program protecting immigrant ‘dreamers’

September 8, 2017

ABOVE PHOTO:  DACA protestors take to the streets in Old City Philadelphia.Juntos, a Philly-based immigrant rights organization, hosted the demonstration.   (Photo: Solomon Williams) By Jill Colvin Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has begun dismantling Barack Obama’s program protecting hundreds of thousands of young immigrants who were brought into the country illegally as…

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Response from former President Barack Obama on the disbanding of DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals)

September 8, 2017

ABOVE PHOTO:  President Barack Obama  (Photo: Frederic Legrand-COMEO/shutterstock) Immigration can be a controversial topic. We all want safe, secure borders and a dynamic economy, and people of goodwill can have legitimate disagreements about how to fix our immigration system so that everybody plays by the rules. But that’s not what the action that the White…

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Nations rush to help islands devastated by Hurricane Irma

September 8, 2017

ABOVE PHOTO:  People board up windows in preparation for Hurricane Irma, in Canovanas, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017. Irma roared into the Caribbean with record force early Wednesday, its 185-mph winds shaking homes and flooding buildings on a chain of small islands along a path toward Puerto Rico, Cuba and Hispaniola and a possible…

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Rescuers pluck hundreds from rising floodwaters in Houston

September 2, 2017

ABOVE PHOTO:  A family is helped to a bus as they are evacuated as the outer bands of Hurricane Harvey begin to make landfall, Friday, Aug. 25, 2017, in Corpus Christi, Texas. Harvey intensified into a hurricane Thursday and steered for the Texas coast with the potential for up to 3 feet of rain, 125…

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Harvey – How You Can Help

September 2, 2017

ABOVE PHOTO:  A drives moves through flood waters left behind by Hurricane Harvey, Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017, in Aransas Pass, Texas. Harvey rolled over the Texas Gulf Coast on Saturday, smashing homes and businesses and lashing the shore with wind and rain so intense that drivers were forced off the road because they could not…

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