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Some oblivious Lyft riders didn't realize Shaq was their driver

Edit Yahoo Daily News 02 Jun 2016
It figures that anyone with some knowledge of American popular culture who came across him in public would know him right away ... A new promotional clip for the company shows O'Neal in various disguises as a driver, talking with passengers who somehow do not recognize him beneath his comically large afro or get-up ... - - - - - - -....

Day 7 – MSU Choir’s Final Day in Cuba! (Morgan State University)

Edit Public Technologies 02 Jun 2016
Today was the Morgan State University Choir's final day in Cuba! Typically, our international tours have been at least ten days; however, we chose to have a shorter stay in Cuba, given the relative newness of the rekindling of American-Cuban relations ... It was as though everyone in the country was told to be as kind to visitors (Americans) as possible, although I am sure this was not the case....

STATEMENT: CAP’s Carmel Martin on Need to Expand Social Security (Center for American Progress)

Edit Public Technologies 02 Jun 2016
Center for American Progress) ... - Center for American Progress Executive Vice President for Policy Carmel Martin issued the following statement in response to President Barack Obama's remarks on Wednesday regarding a proposal to expand Social Security benefits. ... Strengthening and expanding Social Security is an essential step to ensure that Americans will be able to retire with dignity and security....

BDS a Bigger Issue After Israel’s Rightward Shift

Edit Antiwar 02 Jun 2016
40 years after the US formally criminalized the participation of US citizens in economic boycotts of the state of Israel, Americans remain strongly divided on the question of the BDS movement, which seeks to protest Israeli behavior in the occupied territories through boycotts, divestment, and sanctions ... sentiment at American college campuses....

Domestic extremists are a bigger threat than foreign terrorism in America

Edit Business Insider 02 Jun 2016
The names these groups take – “Patriot Movement,” “Freemen,” “Sovereign Citizens“ – serve to legitimize them in American eyes, drawing on the narrative that true Americans are not only able – but expected – to throw off oppression themselves ... Trump has on many occasions claimed that America is “lost” to the American people ... Politics is increasingly divisive, and anger is the defining characteristic of American society....

‘Transgender people violate human rights’

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 02 Jun 2016
"American Sniper" New York Premiere - Inside ArrivalsNEW YORK, NY – DECEMBER 15. Actress Stacey Dash attends the “American Sniper” New York Premiere at Frederick P ... In recent months American politicians have introduced legislation in Mississippi and North Carolina mandating transgender people relieve themselves in communal restrooms designated for the gender they were at birth ... ....

There's evidence that therapists may be biased against poor, black patients

Edit Business Insider 02 Jun 2016
According to a study from the American Sociological Association, which placed calls to 640 therapists in New York City, therapists are less likely to return calls from perspective patients whom they assume to be poor and black ... According to the NAACP, 18% of African-Americans under 65 years old go without health insurance, and even the expansion, while the rate for the United States as a whole is 10.4%....

Obamanomics 101 Gets An ‘F’ (Republican Party)

Edit Public Technologies 02 Jun 2016
IN REALITY, BY ANY NUMBER OF MEASURES THE AMERICAN ECONOMY IS WORSE OFF THAN WHEN OBAMA TOOK OFFICE. American Incomes Are Falling ... Middle-Income American Families 'Make Substantially Less Money' In Inflation Adjusted Terms Than Years Ago And 'There Is No Evidence That Is Reversing.' 'A middle-income American family, in other words, makes substantially less money in inflation-adjusted terms than it did 15 years ago....

DEPRESSING Thomas: Snoop Dogg is right

Edit Richmond Times Dispatch 02 Jun 2016
Snoop’s point is that seeing more stories about African-Americans who are successful would inspire more minorities to overcome the difficult circumstances in which many find themselves ... The stories of modern African-American entrepreneurs and visionaries may not be as dramatic as the historical ones, but they are still compelling ... Many involve young African-American men with guns....

The FDA is going after the food industry to cut your salt obsession

Edit Springfield News-Sun 02 Jun 2016
"Many Americans want to reduce sodium in their diets, but that’s hard to do when much of it is in everyday products we buy in stores and restaurants ... The average American adult takes in about 3,400 milligrams of sodium per day — about ... They are voluntary and call for a very gradual implementation, so Americans probably ......

Stephens receives Chemical Society scholarship (Henderson State University)

Edit Public Technologies 02 Jun 2016
Chelsea Stephens, a sophomore chemistry major at Henderson State University, has been awarded a $1,000 American Chemical Society (ACS) Scholars Program scholarship ... Stephens, who is Native American (Choctaw), was named the chemistry department's Outstanding Freshmen this spring....

US drone strikes regrettable and must stop

Edit Indian Express 02 Jun 2016
US drone strikes in Pakistan “must stop”, Pakistan’s powerful army chief General Raheel Sharif said on Wednesday, days after American special forces killed Taliban chief Mullah Mansour in a drone attack in the country’s restive Balochistan province ... “We have removed the leader of an organisation that has continued to plot against and unleash attacks on American and Coalition forces....

Drones must stop: Gen. Sharif

Edit The Hindu 02 Jun 2016
drone strikes in Pakistan “must stop”, Pakistan’s Army chief General Raheel Sharif said on Wednesday, days after American special forces killed Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour in a drone attack in the country’s restive Balochistan province ... had said American forces would continue to go after threats on Pakistani soil....
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