#الأزهر_اليوم | الرئيس التركي رجب #أردوغان يهدي الرئيس الأمريكي باراك #أوباما لوحة بخط الثلث العربي باسم "باراك حسين أوباما" لتذكيره بأصوله الإسلامية
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
BALTIMORE—The mayor the police chief the school superintendent are black
BALTIMORE—The mayor is black. The council is almost two-thirds black. The school superintendent is black. The police chief is black, and a majority of his officers are black.
Race riots inevitably end in contention over what social woes led to the trigger point, with one overarching element: a white power structure ruling a black populace.Baltimore left behind that vestige of segregation long ago, yet the city nonetheless has been perched on the edge of chaos for much of this week, as African American protesters took to the streets to express grievances over police abuse and urban neglect.
Saturday, April 25, 2015
Loretta Lynch the first African-American female attorney general in U.S. history.
Here is a look at the life of U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
Personal:
Birth date: May 21, 1959
Birth date: May 21, 1959
Birth place: Greensboro, North Carolina
Birth name: Loretta Elizabeth Lynch
Father: Lorenzo Lynch, Baptist minister
Mother: Lorine (Harris) Lynch, school librarian
Marriage: Stephen Hargrove (2007-present)
Education: Harvard College, A.B., 1981; Harvard Law School, J.D., 1984
Other Facts:
Lynch is the first black female attorney general in U.S. history.
Lynch is the first black female attorney general in U.S. history.
Served as a board member for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Timeline:
1984-1990 - Litigation associate at New York law firm Cahill, Gordon & Reindel.
1984-1990 - Litigation associate at New York law firm Cahill, Gordon & Reindel.
March 1990 - Becomes a trial prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney's office in the Eastern District of New York. The Eastern District includes Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and Long Island.
1994-1998 - Serves as chief of the Long Island office.
March 1998 - Becomes chief assistant to U.S. Attorney Zachary W. Carter.
1999-2001 - Appointed by President Bill Clinton, serves as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
January 2002 - Joins Hogan & Hartson LLP as a partner.
2005 - Serves as special counsel to the prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
January 20, 2010 - Nominated by President Barack Obama to be the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, the job she previously held from 1999 to 2001.
April 22, 2010 - Lynch is unanimously confirmed by the Senate. She takes office on May 3, 2010.
May 2010 - Is appointed to the Attorney General's Advisory Committee of U.S. Attorneys (AGAC).
September 7, 2011 - Becomes vice chair of AGAC.
April 2014 - Lynch's office indicts Congressman Michael Grimm (R-New York) for fraud.
November 8, 2014 - Obama nominates Lynch to be the next U.S. Attorney General.
December 3, 2014 - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announces that the Justice Department will lead a civil rights investigation into the death of Eric Garner in New York. Lynch will lead the investigation.
January 28-29, 2015 - Lynch's confirmation hearing for the U.S. Attorney General position is held.
February 26, 2015 - The Senate Judiciary Committee approves Lynch as the next attorney general.
April 23, 2015 - Is confirmed by the Senate, 56-43, to be the new U.S. Attorney General. She is the first African-American female attorney general in U.S. history.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/23/politics/loretta-lynch-attorney-general-vote/
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
Rand Paul enters 2016 fray money changes GOP
As 2016 approaches, that evidence may be coming in the form of Sen. Rand Paul announcing his bid for the presidency Tuesday. Or Sen. Ted Cruz doing it last month. Or Sen. Marco Rubio (apparently) doing it next week. Or even in Jeb Bush taking his own sweet time.
The GOP field is starting to crowd up – and to grow flush with cash – despite the eagerness of many Republican Party insiders to avoid the kind of bumptious free-for-all that left Mitt Romney battered and looking like he won the GOP nomination by default.
Rand Paul: 'I'm putting myself forward as a candidate for president'
Since riding the tea party wave into the Senate in 2010, Paul has carefully built a brand of mainstream libertarianism -- dogged advocacy of civil liberties combined with an anti-interventionist foreign policy and general support for family values -- that he bets will create a coalition of younger voters and traditional Republicans to usher him into the White House.
The test of that theory began Tuesday when the Kentucky senator made official what has been clear for years: He's running for president.
"Today I announce with God's help, with the help of liberty lovers everywhere, that I'm putting myself forward as a candidate for president of the United States of America," Paul said at a rally in Louisville.
Paul immediately hit the campaign trail for a four-day through New Hampshire, South Carolina, Iowa and Nevada -- the states that traditionally vote first in the primaries and caucuses.
A power outage hit the White House and much of the Washington area
A power outage hit the White House and much of the Washington area on Tuesday, snarling trains, emptying museums and cutting electricity to government buildings and the U.S. Capitol.
The Justice Department and State Department were also affected, along with the University of Maryland. Power company Pepco Holdings Inc said the outage stemmed from a dip in voltage because of transmission line trouble.
Power was briefly knocked out to the White House, delaying the daily press briefing.
The "power outage (is) affecting many parts of the city, and it affected the White House complex. We were on a backup generator and now we are back on normal power," a White House spokesman said.
The State Department's daily briefing also was suspended after power was lost. An official at the Department of Homeland Security said in an email, "At this time, there is no indication that this outage is the result of any malicious activity."
The U.S. Capitol complex operated using a backup generator before power was restored. Power also went out as media tycoon Oprah Winfrey was speaking at a U.S. Postal Service ceremony marking the issuance of a stamp honoring poet Maya Angelou.
Some subway stations in the United States' second-busiest transit system were running on backup power, according to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.
The Smithsonian Institution said four museums, including the National Air and Space Museum, had been evacuated.
Pepco said its crews were repairing transmission equipment in Charles County, Maryland, south of Washington. The company's website showed about 1,400 customers without power, with most clustered in the District of Columbia.
The Washington Post quoted a District of Columbia homeland security official as saying an explosion at a plant operated by the Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative had caused a power surge that cut electricity to much of the capital area.
The power company did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Its website said about 1,700 customers, most of them southeast of Washington, were without power.
Wallace Loh, president of the University of Maryland, tweeted that power had been cut to the campus and Pepco was working to restore it.
Widespread power outages hit White House, Washington area
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Washington (CNN)Widespread power outages hit across Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, affecting government and privately-owned buildings and the city's public transit rail system intermittently early in the afternoon.
The power outage, which is affecting about 2,000 customers in the Washington area was caused by a small explosion and fire at a power substation in southern Maryland, according to local and U.S. officials.
Charles County Fire & EMS dispatched firetrucks to the Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative's Ryceville power substation shortly after 12:45 p.m. on Tuesday, when 9-1-1 calls came in reporting the incident, said Bill Smith, the Fire & EMS department's public information officer. The station is partly operated by PEPCO, the electricity utility in Washington, D.C.
Fire officials extinguished the "small fire" that sparked off at a transformer at the power station in about 35 minutes, Smith told CNN. There were no injuries, he added.
"The power has been shut down [at the station]. Any fires that we had are out," he said.
By 2 p.m., most power was back on, SMECO said. It explained the outage on Twitter.
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