Week In Review

ABOVE PHOTO:  Perry Tarrant  (Photo: Seattle Police Department)   By Lisa Marie Pane Associated Press ATLANTA — The Trump administration’s tough talk on crime and the treatment of suspects has left Black police officers worried that efforts to repair the fraught relationship between police and minority communities could be derailed. A major Black law enforcement…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  A cyclist rides past Bertie County Peanuts in Windsor, N.C., located in Bertie County. The county is home to seven of the state’s top 10 towns with the biggest percentage decline in the number of people between 2015 and 2016, according to data from the UNC Carolina Population Center. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)  …

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Chip Fattah   (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)   Associated Press A federal judge has rejected claims by a former Philadelphia congressman’s son that he’s owed $3 million for alleged law enforcement leaks to reporters he claims cost him his job and have kept him from finding other work. Philly.com reports U.S. District Judge Timothy…

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ABOVE CARTOON:  Tom Janssen, The Netherlands   By Vladimir Isachenkov Associated Press MOSCOW — Russia urged the United States Monday to show “political will” to mend ties even as it ordered sweeping cuts of U.S. embassy personnel unseen since Cold War times. President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said it will take time for the…

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By Alan Fram Associated Press WASHINGTON — Where the Senate Republican effort to demolish the Obama health care law ends up is anyone’s guess, but early indications are the GOP will have a hard time replacing that statute with any sweeping changes. Senators planned to vote Wednesday on a Republican amendment repealing much of President…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  San Antonio police officers investigate the scene where eight people were found dead in a tractor-trailer loaded with at least 30 others outside a Walmart store in stifling summer heat in what police are calling a horrific human trafficking case, Sunday, July 23, 2017, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)   By Eric…

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Several dozens of Falun Gong practitioners from Greater Philadelphia held a rally at Liberty Bell Park on Sunday, July 23 to commemorate the thousands of Falun Gong practitioners’ lives that were lost as a result of the 18 years of ongoing brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners by the Chinese Communist Party in China. Several…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Pastor Yul Dorn poses for a portrait inside his home, where he’s facing eviction due to foreclosure in San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunters Point district. As San Francisco rides a massive building boom, fueled largely by growth in tech-based jobs, many African-Americans worry they will not be able to afford to stay in a neighborhood…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Steve Sack, The Minneapolis Star Tribune   By Alan Fram Associated Press WASHINGTON — Congress is still trying to send President Donald Trump his first unqualified legislative triumph, nearly six months after Republicans grabbed full control of Washington. Now, lawmakers are returning from their July 4 recess with an added objective – averting…

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ABOVE CARTOON:  Marian Kamensky, Austria   By Adam Schreck and Maggie Hyde Associated Press DOHA, Qatar — U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson sealed a deal Tuesday to intensify Qatar’s counterterrorism efforts, tackling a central issue in the spat pitting the besieged Gulf nation against four other American allies lined up against it. Tillerson outlined…

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