Week In Review

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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ABOVE PHOTO:  William E. Fitzpatrick, acting U.S. Attorney for the State of New Jersey, surrounded by representatives from the FBI, IRS, and Homeland Security, speaks at the podium regarding Seth Williams’ federal indictment on 23 counts.  (Photo courtesy: Denise Clay) On Tuesday, District Attorney R. Seth Williams became the latest Philadelphia politico to find himself…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Jared Hunter, center, and his campaign staff react to his election as student body president at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Tuesday, March 7, 2017. Originally from Wetumpka, Ala., Hunter is the first black student to win the position with the backing of a secretive group called The Machine, which…

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ABOVE CARTOON:  John Darkow, Columbia Daily Tribune, Missouri By Hope Yen ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Republicans pushing a plan to dismantle former President Barack Obama’s health care law braced for a Congressional Budget Office analysis widely expected to conclude that fewer Americans will have health coverage under the proposal, despite President Donald Trump’s promise of…

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ABOVE CARTOON: Rayma Suprani, CagleCartoons.com   By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Eighty HBCU Presidents did a “fly-in” to the White House in a meeting organized by Trump whisperer Omarosa, South Carolina Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.), and others. There was a White House meeting, a meeting at the Library of Congress, and more buzz than twenty beehives….

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ABOVE PHOTO:  John Silvanus Wilson By Eric Stirgus AJC.com A Morehouse College spokeswoman has denied that the college’s president was fired Monday due to some remarks he made following the visit of a group of presidents from Historically Black Colleges and Universities to the White House, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution. The website “HBCU…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Mohan Singh Khatra, center, whose uncle, Subeg Singh Khatra, was killed in the Wisconsin Sikh temple attack, speaks to reporters in front of the Sikh Cultural Society in the Queens borough of New York, Monday, Aug. 6, 2012. New York City’s mayor and police commissioner have expressed their condolences at the Sikh Cultural…

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ABOVE CARTOON:  Dave Granlund, Politicalcartoons.com By Alicia A. Caldwell and Jill Colvin Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday signed a new version of his controversial travel ban, aiming to withstand court challenges while still barring new visas for citizens from six Muslim-majority countries and shutting down the U.S. refugee program. The revised…

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I want to make sure that you see this important message on the Affordable Care Act from Mayor Kenney: As the Trump Administration continues to enact policies or support bills at odds with many Philadelphians’ beliefs, we understand the frustration or anger many of you are feeling. One of the most important things you can…

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