Week In Review

ABOVE PHOTO:  Holocaust activist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel, in his office in New York in 2012. Weisel died last week at 87.  (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews) By Verena Dobnik associated press NEW YORK — The frail, dapper man who sometimes greeted reporters in his Madison Avenue office spoke in an almost hushed voice, but…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Demonstrators opposing Britain’s exit from the European Union demonstrate in Parliament Square following yesterday’s EU referendum result, London, Saturday, June 25, 2016. Britain voted to leave the European Union after a bitterly divisive referendum campaign. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland) Or, what does England’s break from the European Union mean for my 401k plan? By…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  A man kneels across the street from where police gather outside the Emanuel AME Church following a shooting Wednesday, June 17, 2015, in Charleston, S.C. (Wade Spees/The Post And Courier via AP) Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from the Southern Poverty Law Center Last June 17, a young White supremacist gunned…

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ABOVE CARTOON:  David Fitzsimmons, The Arizona Star By Barrington M. Salmon TriceEdneyWire.com Since the Supreme Court invalidated Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act in Shelby County v. Holder, states that were once required to get permission from the Department of Justice to change their voting laws have been free to implement limits to voting…

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ABOVE CARTOON:  RJ Matson, Roll Call By Mary Clare Jalonick ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Among the Senate’s most vulnerable Republicans, Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey stood firmly with the powerful National Rifle Association on the latest ill-fated attempts at gun control. So did Ohio Sen. Rob Portman and Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson. Not so Illinois Sen….

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ABOVE PHOTO:  U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah addresses the press after the verdict on Tuesday.  (Photo courtesy: Denise Clay) A jury finds U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah guilty of a variety of charges including racketeering, money laundering and bribery. By Denise Clay U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah resigned from his Second District Congressional seat on Thursday, just two…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Officer Caesar Goodson arrives at the courthouse Monday, June 13, 2016, for the third day of his trial in the Freddie Gray case, in Baltimore. Goodson faces second-degree murder, manslaughter and other charges stemming from the death of Freddie Gray. (Barbara Haddock Taylor/The Baltimore Sun via AP) By Juliet Linderman Associated Press  BALTIMORE…

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ABOVE PHOTO: President Barack Obama speaks to members of the media in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, June 13, 2016. Obama said there’s no clear evidence that the shooter at an Orlando nightclub was directed to conduct his attack or part of a larger plot.  (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) By…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Omar Mateen  (MySpace via AP)   By Jason Dearen and Terrance Harris Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. — The FBI is investigating reports that Orlando gunman Omar Mateen had been a regular at the gay nightclub he attacked and had used gay dating apps, a U.S. official briefed on the case said Tuesday. A number…

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associated press — Stanley Almodovar III, 23 — Amanda Alvear, 25 — Rodolfo Ayala-Ayala, 33 — Antonio Davon Brown, 29 — Darryl Roman Burt II, 29 — Luis Omar Ocasio-Capo, 20 — Cory James Connell, 21 — Luis Daniel Conde, 39 — Tevin Eugene Crosby, 25 — Peter O. Gonzalez-Cruz, 22 — Anthony Luis Laureano…

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