On the eve of the presidential election, America finds itself at a crossroads. It seems that the country has a clear binary choice. However, the media pundits tell us that the election is too close to call. They say the country is bitterly divided, and a huge percentage of people are conflicted.

By Aaron Humes | ‘Policy’ vs. ‘Personality’ 

Trump falls into Harris’s traps as he lies about abortion and ‘eating pets.’ Donald Trump appeared to fall apart in his first head-to-head debate with Kamala Harris in Philadelphia on Tuesday evening, providing rambling answers on illegal immigration, abortion, and the economy and taking the bait whenever his opponent goaded him.

Harris at the debate: "I am not Joe Biden, and I am certainly not Donald Trump"

Andrew Romano · Reporter | yahoo!news | Wed, September 11, 2024 at 12:40 AM EDT

Anybody who does not understand the majority of white Americans' unflinching support for Donald Trump should listen and watch the video.

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Kamala Harris delivers a show-stopping rally in front of a roaring crowd in Pennsylvania with her new running mate Tim Walz — and shares a moving anecdote.

Occupy Democrats | @OccupyDemocrats

The national factions agreed during their meetings in China to achieve comprehensive Palestinian national unity, including all Palestinian forces and factions within the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) framework. They committed to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, following United Nations resolutions, and ensuring the right of return following Resolution 194.

Firas | @FirasPalestine via ‘X,’ formally Twitter

Biden made the announcement from his home in Rehoboth Beach, Del., where he's self-isolated since testing positive for COVID-19 Thursday night. Several Democrats, including those who formerly served in the Obama-Biden administration, urged him to consider dropping out.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Biden drops out: President leaves 2024 race amid party pressure

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) said Israel should stop settlement activity in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem and end its "illegal" occupation of those areas and the Gaza Strip as soon as possible.

By Raffi Berg, BBC News, London

Change begins now, Starmer says - as Labour wins a historic landslide. Sir Keir Starmer enters Downing Street as Labour's first prime minister in 14 years after a landslide victory at the general election.

This article makes it clear that the norm, precedent, and federal expertise are in place to make reparatory compensation a reality for black Americans—now. Cited Native American reserve lands as a compensatory program that would be comparable to the process of reparations for black Americans who were descendants of slaves.

Professors Linda J. Bilmes and Cornell William Brooks are both from Harvard University.

An active-duty U.S. Air Force member, later identified as Aaron Bushnell, who live-streamed himself protesting the Israel-Hamas war by setting himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington DC on Sunday, February 25, 2024, is dead, a U.S. official confirmed.

While streaming himself live on Twitch, he stated that he ‘will no longer be complicit in genocide’ before dousing himself in accelerant and setting himself ablaze around 1 p.m. on Sunday.

The changes are a fraction of the fee increases sought by the Trump administration before a federal judge scrapped them. Still, immigration attorneys say immigration costs almost always trend higher, so those who want to naturalize for less should consider applying before April 1, 2024.

Thousands of protesters have marched the streets of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Canberra in opposition to the National Day of Mourning for Queen Elizabeth and "racist colonial imperialism."

Published 22 September 2022 at 3:27pm, updated 22 September 2022 at 5:01pm. By Tanisha Stanton, Alexis Moran, Cameron Gooley, Ricky Kirby. Source: NITV

The designation applies to people who come from countries ravaged by war or disaster. It protects them from deportation and allows them to work legally. There are 400,000 people from 12 countries with TPS status.

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If you want to vote early because you’re worried about the health risks of standing in line on Election Day, but you’re also worried that the U.S. Postal Service won’t deliver a mail-in ballot in time to be counted, what should you do?

Source: Yahoo News • August 19, 2020

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While many countries have stemmed the tide and turned the corner on COVID-19, the United States, is a vortex of death and economic depression.

What is a public health issue has become heavily politicized, we cannot even agree on the life-preserving measures of wearing a simple cloth-mask.

Photo by Xena Goldman

Barack Obama: How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change.

The article first published from Medium | Equality.

A statement about the protests throughout the United States about police brutality and George Floyd's murder. The lack of police accountability. He offered valuable resources on how to use this moment.

A Four-Part Series – The Conclusion

Public charge is a test applied when an immigrant applies for a green card or entry into the United States. In California, for example, the counties and state offices do not call ICE. They only use the information to enroll you or your family member in a benefit.

By J Reynold Weeks

Part III

The Trump administration recently announced it will be harder for some people to receive certain visas or a green card through a family member if they use Medi-Cal, SNAP, and subsidized housing. The change to the ‘Public Charge’ is what we are discussing. Not everyone needs to worry about the new public charge rule.

J Reynold Weeks

“You can tell that (the designers) didn’t have an appearance in mind,” postal worker Avis Stonum said. The Postal Service’s new delivery vehicles aren’t going to win a beauty contest.

NEW YORK POST  |  Associated Press | September 12, 2024; at 1:44 AM

Known as ‘La Doctora,’ Claudia Sheinbaum, a physicist with a doctorate in energy engineering and a former Mayor of Mexico City, became the first female president in the history of Mexico after Sunday’s presidential election. Sheinbaum was declared the winner and obtained around 60.7 percent of the vote.

Bill Barr, Attorney General during the Trump administration in a CBS interview with Robert Costa on Sunday, June 18, 2023, unload on his former boss.

‘He will always put his own interests and gratifying his own ego ahead of everything else, including the country’s interests. There’s no question about it. This is a perfect example of that. He’s like a 9-year-old — a defiant 9-year-old kid who’s always pushing the glass toward the edge of the table, defying his parents to stop him from doing it. It’s a means of self-assertion and exerting his dominance over other people. And he’s a very petty individual who will always put his interests ahead of the country’s, and the personal gratification of his ego. But our country can’t be a therapy session for a troubled man like this.’

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The indictment against Donald J. Trump and his personal valet, Walt Nauta, unsealed this afternoon, lays out the federal case against the former president in vivid, shocking detail.

No other president has ever faced federal charges, let alone the prospect of a lengthy prison sentence if convicted.

Friday, June 9, 2023, at 5:02 PM EDT - yahoo /news

I never thought I would be comparing Washington DC to the Green Zone in Baghdad; however, the MAGA crowd brought us to the brink of a very un-American insurrection. Trump stormtroopers aimed was to overturn the will of the American people and, in true Jim Crow fashion, tried to disenfranchise African Americans and other minorities.

This our history. 401-year odyssey encompasses tragedy, triumph, and the indomitable spirit of a battle-scarred people.

Photos/Illustrations by Betsy Kiel

Central to this idea of seismic change is the issue of Police reform, which has to happen.

Being black in America should not be a death sentence.

Black In America

Ghana’s Minister of State in charge of Tertiary Education, Professor Kwesi Yankah, has been elected to the membership of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AMACAD).

With his election, Prof. Yankah, joins the company of notable members, from the founders, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Bowdoin to Ralph Waldo Emerson, Maria Mitchell, and Alexander Graham Bell.

By Benson Afful

In 2019, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a unanimous resolution condemning FGM/C as a human rights violation. The resolution condemning FGM/C was co-sponsored by 28 members of Congress and calls for “coordinated efforts to eliminate the harmful practice.”

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What are the causes and consequences of Female Genital Mutilation or Cutting, or FGM/C.?

Growing up in West Africa, it did not seem to be of importance to me when young girls mostly in their teens with distinguished colorings on their faces and other parts of their bodies were paraded bare-breasted if there were any to be bared, in the streets of my village.

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We hope our elected officials get it together and lead by example. We see incredible acts of kindness, courage, and resourcefulness on a far local and global scale. The crisis will batter and bruised us, but it will not break us. Girded by our common humanity, we emerge stronger and prepared for the next storm.

By The Editorial Board

They ignored intelligence reports in January and derided the coming storm as a hoax. In their haste to dismantle all things Obama the White House, office that dealt with global pandemics, axed.

By Angela Brooks

As we pursue racial and economic equality, the ‘ADOS’ needs to realize ‘United We Stand, Divided We Fall.’

Black people as a whole are a complex myriad of cultures and a beautiful array of colors. Many, of course, the descendants of former slaves. For many, the bitter legacy and the enduring struggle for civil rights and equality have been over time an unceasing quest.

American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS) a term to specifically distinguish African Americans of slave descent. The term coined by Yvette Carnell and Lawyer Antonio Moore describes people whose ancestors were slaves in the USA before the Civil War.

By Theo Edwards and Ola George

Innocent, complete exoneration! If the hoax does not fit, you must acquit. Pelosi, Romney, and Schiff, eat it! As Jack Shakespeare said, ‘Pizza is a dish best served cold.” It was never in doubt I own the Senate.

By Ola George

It’s all going wrong! One day I need to make time to read the Constitution. Human scum continues to rat me out. I don’t know who these people are.

By Ola George