Week In Review

ABOVE PHOTO:  People clean up debris after an explosion hit Saint Mark’s Cathedral in the coastal city of Alexandria, the historic seat of Christendom in Egypt, Sunday, April 9, 2017, killing several people, just after Pope Tawadros II finished services. Bombs tore through two Egyptian churches in different cities as worshippers were marking Palm Sunday,…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Trump aide Omarosa Manigault listens to question from reporter Hazel Trice Edney.  (Photo: Shevry Lassiter) Chairman calls meeting a ‘lost opportunity for the president’ and ‘waste of time’ for NNPA By Hazel Trice Edney TriceEdneyWire.com Omarosa Manigault, President Donald Trump’s director of communications for public liaison, walked out of a breakfast meeting she…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Lawrence Krasner For 30 years, Lawrence Krasner has been on the opposite side of the city’s District Attorneys, trying to help clients facing criminal charges and police brutality. Now he hopes to change how the office operates as the Philadelphia’s next District Attorney. By Denise Clay For most of the last 30 years,…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  In this picture taken on Tuesday April 4, 2017, Abdul-Hamid Alyousef, 29, holds his twin babies who were killed during a suspected chemical weapons attack, in Khan Sheikhoun in the northern province of Idlib, Syria. Alyousef also lost his wife, two brothers, nephews and many other family members in the attack that claimed…

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By Jesse J. Holland Associated Press WASHINGTON–Black members of Congress are calling for the Justice Department to help police investigate a large number of missing children in Washington, D.C. The District of Columbia logged 501 cases of missing juveniles, many of them black or Latino, in the first three months of this year, according to…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  A coroner’s unit pulls away as police operate at a crime scene outside the Cameo club after a fatal shooting, Sunday, March 26, 2017, in Cincinnati.  (AP Photo/John Minchillo) By John Minchillo and Dan Sewell Associated Press CINCINNATI — Gunfire erupted early last Sunday inside a crowded Cincinnati nightclub after a dispute broke…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  More than 600 prospective students flocked to Cheyney University’s Spring Open House on March 24th to see what the nation’s first HBCU has to offer. Nearly a third of them left with acceptance letters. CHEYNEY, PA – More than 600 prospective students traveled to Cheyney University of Pennsylvania’s beautiful suburban campus on March…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Roger Wilkins, who served as the 2nd National Director of Community Relations Service.  (Photo by Lonnie Tague for The Department of Justice.) By Ben Nuckols Associated Press WASHINGTON — Roger Wilkins, a historian, journalist and activist who held a key civil rights post in the Johnson administration, has died. He was 85. Wilkins’…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, opposes the Republican health care bill during work by the House Budget Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March, 16, 2017.   (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) By Russ Bynum, Rebecca Santanaand Kathleen Foody Associated Press CLAXTON, Ga.  — Talmadge Yarbrough had just sat down at his desk and…

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By Jill Lawless Associated Press LONDON — The Islamic State group claimed responsibility Thursday for an attack by a man who plowed an SUV into pedestrians on a crowded London bridge and then stabbed a police officer to death on the grounds of Britain’s Parliament. The attacker was born in Britain and known to authorities…

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