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Trayvon's wardrobe a hot-button topic in racial profiling debate

The hooded sweatshirt — or hoodie — has emerged as an unlikely symbol of political division and racial tension as the controversy over the shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Florida by a neighborhood watch captain last month continues to simmer.

Critics piled on the National Rifle Association on ...

Biden to Va. high school grads: Banish cynicism

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 14:48
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden has told Virginia high school graduates to believe that the U.S. has a bright future....

Biden says Romney 'consistently wrong' on jobs

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 14:48
DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is "consistently wrong" on U.S. manufacturing, painting him as someone who doesn't believe the sector is crucial to future U.S. economic success and as a proponent of outsourcing....

In speech, Biden attacks Romney on foreign policy

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 14:48
NEW YORK (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden delivered a harsh attack Thursday on Mitt Romney's foreign policy views, arguing that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee is rooted in a Cold War mentality and is uninformed about the current challenges facing the U.S. abroad....

Biden says Romney 'consistently wrong' on jobs

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 14:48
DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is "consistently wrong" on U.S. manufacturing, painting him as someone who doesn't believe the sector is crucial to future U.S. economic success and as a proponent of outsourcing....

Biden says Romney 'consistently wrong' on jobs

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 14:48
DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is "consistently wrong" on U.S. manufacturing, painting him as someone who doesn't believe the sector is crucial to future U.S. economic success and as a proponent of outsourcing....

Biden says Romney 'consistently wrong' on jobs

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 14:48
DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is "consistently wrong" on U.S. manufacturing, painting him as someone who doesn't believe the sector is crucial to future U.S. economic success and as a proponent of outsourcing....

Biden says Romney 'consistently wrong' on jobs

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 14:48
DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is "consistently wrong" on U.S. manufacturing, painting him as someone who doesn't believe the sector is crucial to future U.S. economic success and as a proponent of outsourcing....

Biden says Romney 'consistently wrong' on jobs

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 14:48
DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is "consistently wrong" on U.S. manufacturing, painting him as someone who doesn't believe the sector is crucial to future U.S. economic success and as a proponent of outsourcing....

Europe's Firewall Follies

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2025-05-17 14:48
Squabbling over the size of the ESM looks like deck-chair management.


Michael Bloomberg: Federal Budgets and Class Warfare

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2025-05-17 14:48
I support letting the Bush tax cuts expire. But the Obama plan isn't a serious strategy.


Andrew Beebe: Inside a U.S.-China Solar Trade War

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2025-05-17 14:48
Commerce Department antidumping probes don't consider the bigger picture.


Rove: ObamaCare and the 2012 Election

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2025-05-17 14:48
Whatever the Supreme Court says, how the president handles health policy will deeply affect his chances in November.


'Exterminate the Foreigners'

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2025-05-17 14:48
A peasant army, incensed by the large Western presence in China, descended on Beijing and laid siege to the foreign quarter. Howard W. French reviews "The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China" by David J. Silbey.


Churches step up environmental activism

PITTSBURGH — God is going green.

With a Bible in one hand and a protest sign in the other, many religious activists are now moving in lockstep with the environmental movement in the fight against oil and gas drilling.

Stewardship of the Earth is hardly a new concept in ...

Conn. tribe sees fortune reversal amid casino woes

MASHANTUCKET | For two decades, the Mashantucket Pequots lived like Indian gambling royalty. Luxury cars abounded on their tiny, gated reservation of Colonial and ranch-style homes in the woods of southeastern Connecticut.

The tribe's Foxwoods casino, the largest in the Western Hemisphere, allowed members to live without concern for money, ...

Biden says Romney 'consistently wrong' on jobs

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 14:48
DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is "consistently wrong" on U.S. manufacturing, painting him as someone who doesn't believe the sector is crucial to future U.S. economic success and as a proponent of outsourcing....

JetBlue pilot charged with interfering with crew

RICHMOND HILL, Ga. (AP) — A JetBlue Airways captain who sprinted through the cabin of a Las Vegas-bound flight screaming about terrorists, Jesus and Sept. 11 was charged Wednesday with interfering with a flight crew, federal authorities said.

Captain Clayton Osbon told his co-pilot that "things don't matter" shortly after ...

Best of the Web Today: Will the High Court Vindicate Vinson?

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2025-05-17 14:48
Justice Kennedy sounds surprisingly like the judge who struck down ObamaCare in toto.


Who will win Senate 'big oil' tax fight?

CNN - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 14:48
Your pain at the pump is the U.S. Senate's top issue this week. Senate Democrats and Republicans are arguing over a bill that would end billions in tax breaks for large oil companies -- a proposal designed to tap into voter anger over rising gas prices heading into the general election.
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