Today’s comic by Jen Sorensen is A base-less strategy for Dems:
A report from Missouri’s attorney general shows that black drivers across the state are 91 percent more likely than white motorists to be pulled over by police and newly collected data shows that African-Americans are even more likely to be stopped in many communities where they live.
Goddard survived the April 16, 2007 massacre at Virginia Tech, which killed 32 peopleand was the worst school shooting in U.S. history. Twelve years later, he tries not to dwell on the day, but he has dozens of constant reminders: bullet fragments lodged in his body, leaching toxins into his blood.
Like hundreds and possibly thousands of shooting survivors across the country, Goddard, a 33-year-old father of two, is suffering a lesser-known and often unrecognized side effect of gun violence: lead poisoning. When he was shot in his French class that spring day, one bullet pierced his right shoulder cleanly, but three others shattered when they hit his hips and left knee. Because the fragments did not pose life-threatening risks, trauma surgeons left them in his body—a common and widely accepted practice in emergency rooms throughout the United States. Now, with his blood lead levels seven times higher than what is considered safe, Goddard faces long-term health risks, including neurological problems, kidney dysfunction and reproductive issues.
Reince Priebus, President Trump’s former chief of staff, has officially joined the Navy.
At a commissioning ceremony Monday morning, Vice President Pence swore in Priebus as an ensign, an entry-level officer.
The New York Times announced on Monday that it would no longer publish daily political cartoons in its international edition and ended its relationship with two contract cartoonists.
Two months earlier, The Times had stopped running syndicated political cartoons, after one with anti-Semitic imagery was printed in the Opinion section of the international edition.
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today’s Kagro in the Morning show:
We’re back, after an extended graduation weekend, and now it's back to school. Prof. Ian Reifowitz discusses his latest book, The Tribalization of Politics: How Rush Limbaugh's race-baiting rhetoric on the Obama presidency paved the way for Trump.