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A Georgia elementary school removes assignment instructing students to write a letter as 'an American settler' to Andrew Jackson in favor of removing Indigenous people from their land
Students were told to write to President Andrew Jackson as a settler explaining why "removing the C…
Katie Balevic
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Biden administration taking steps to speed up putting Harriet Tubman on $20 bill
"It's important that our notes, our money ... reflect the history and diversity of our country," sa…
John Haltiwanger
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Four men were charged for trying to tear down a statue of President Andrew Jackson near the White House
Jackson owned at least 95 slaves at his Tennessee plantation and brought some of them with him to t…
Katie Warren
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Secret Service responds to reports that reporters were ordered to leave White House while protests took place nearby, says '4 members of the media were misdirected by the Secret Service' to leave.
Journalists were asked to vacate the White House while protests were taking place in nearby Lafayet…
Charles Davis
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Treasury Secretary Mnuchin doubles down on decision to delay putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill for 10 more years
Mnuchin said Tubman wouldn't be on the $20 bill before 2030 and that the decision would be left up …
Joseph Zeballos-Roig
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Judges in 5 states have temporarily blocked state laws that would restrict or ban abortions
With the Supreme Court having overturned Roe v. Wade, state courts are emerging as key battleground…
Grace Panetta
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'Grooming' and 'pro-pedophile' surge as conservative buzzwords amid battle over 'Don't Say Gay' bill
Conservatives have misleadingly called Florida's law an anti-grooming bill. Teaching children about…
Kieran Press-Reynolds
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Controversial anti-sex trafficking group to testify at Jackson confirmation, as QAnon spreads conspiracies about SCOTUS nominee
Bringing OUR into the confirmation hearing will potentially further inflame QAnon conspiracies, exp…
Kieran Press-Reynolds
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Ketanji Brown Jackson rejects GOP accusations that her record on child pornography cases 'endangers our children'
"As a mother and a judge who has had to deal with these cases, I was thinking that nothing could be…
Oma Seddiq
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Durbin swats back at Josh Hawley over attacks on Ketanji Brown Jackson's record on sex offenders, even using the National Review to make his point
Durbin quoted a conservative publication that called Hawley's attack "meritless to the point of dem…
Brent D. Griffiths,Oma Seddiq
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White House press secretary Jen Psaki blasts 'disingenuous attacks' against Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson over her handling of sex-related offenses
Psaki said "a group of far-right Republican senators ... have launched a last-ditch, eve-of-hearing…
John L. Dorman
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Alabama's first Black federal judge asks Biden not to tap Ketanji Brown Jackson for Supreme Court
Retired judge U.W. Clemon pointed to Jackson's handling of a lawsuit filed on behalf of 5,500 Black…
John L. Dorman
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Chris Cuomo is planning to sue CNN if it doesn't pay him $18 million remaining on his contract, reports say
Chris Cuomo was fired from CNN midway through his contract. The New York Post reported he is lawyer…
Mia Jankowicz
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Don't count on the Fed to hike by 75 basis points as it sticks to its slowdown at Jackson Hole, Goldman Sachs says
Goldman expects a 50 basis point rate hike in September and for Jerome Powell to take a dovish tone…
George Glover
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Trump called for protesters who deface statues to face prison time, after demonstrators targeted a statue of President Andrew Jackson right outside the White House
"I have authorized the Federal Government to arrest anyone who vandalizes or destroys any monument,…
Tom Porter
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Former NBA player and analyst Stephen Jackson defends DeSean Jackson's anti-Semitic posts, promotes Jewish stereotypes
Stephen Jackson said DeSean Jackson was "speaking the truth" and was later reluctant to denounce Ja…
Scott Davis
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'Motherf-----': Former Mueller prosecutor describes the moment his team nailed Paul Manafort for financial fraud
Another prosecutor "let out a freewheeling hoot" when she saw the evidence, Weissmann writes. "If t…
Sonam Sheth
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Trump is a big fan of Andrew Jackson - but the 7th president has an ugly history
Days after moving into the White House, Trump hung a portrait of Jackson in the Oval Office and, on…
Veronika Bondarenko
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'You want me to put that face on the twenty-dollar bill?': Omarosa claims Trump slammed the idea of replacing Andrew Jackson's face with Harriet Tubman's
Trump has previously objected to replacing former President Andrew Jackson's image on the $20 bill.…
Ellen Cranley
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Eagles wide receiver DeSean Jackson posts anti-Semitic message on Instagram saying Jewish people will 'blackmail' and 'extort' America
The Eagles released a statement calling DeSean Jackson's posts "offensive, harmful, and absolutely …