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President Obama Addresses Criminal Justice
Bernie Sanders Meets With Sandra Bland’s Mom Days Before Debate
System In Weekly Address
Working for Meaningful Criminal Justice Reform In this week's address, the Presi- dent highlighted the problems in our criminal justice system. Our country faces a vicious cycle of poverty, criminality, and incarceration that traps too many Americans and weakens too many communities.
There are 2.2 million people behind bars in America today, compared to 500,000 just 30 years ago. This topic isn’t new – the President has talked about the unfairness of much of the criminal justice system since his time in the Senate. And while we’ve taken steps to address this issue, members of both parties agree that we can do more.
Over the next few weeks, the President will travel the coun- try and meet with Americans
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And V.P. JOE BIDEN
who are working to fix the crim- inal justice system, from law en- forcement officials working to lower the crime and incarcera- tion rates, to former prisoners who are earning their second chance. And he promised to continue to work with Congress to pass meaningful criminal justice reform that makes the system cost-effective, fairer, and smarter, while enhancing the ability of law enforcement to keep our communities safe.
Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders with the mother of Sandra Bland. Bland allegedly killed her- self in a jail cell in Prairie View, Texas a few months ago.
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Geneva Reed-Veal, whose daughter became a face of the Black Lives Matter campaign following her death in police custody in July.
The pastor said she ap- proached Sanders and asked if he would like to meet Reed- Veal and told him their group had asked if he would take a picture with them.
Pres. Obama Signs Order To Issue Waivers To Iran
Props to Democratic presi- dential hopeful Bernie Sanders.
No, not necessarily for run- ning for POTUS, but for electing not to capitalize on a meaning- ful meeting with the mother of Sandra Bland.
The meeting, according to Yahoo, reportedly took place at East Street Café, a Thai restau-
rant at Union Station in Wash- ington, D.C., five days before the first Democratic presiden- tial debate.
The Reverend Hannah Adair Bonner, a pastor at St. John’s Church in downtown Houston, wrote in her blog about noticing the Vermont senator at another table while she was eating dinner with
WASHINGTON — Presi- dent Obama signed an order Sunday directing his adminis- tration to begin issuing waivers to Iran nuclear sanctions — but the waivers will only go into ef- fect once Iran meets its obliga- tions under the agreement limiting its nuclear program.
The presidential memoran- dum marks what's being called "adoption day" for the interna- tional agreement intended to roll back Iran's nuclear pro- gram. The milestone, four ad- ministration officials said, is a mere formality, driven more by the calendar than by any action by Iran.
"Today marks an important milestone toward preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and ensuring its nu- clear program is exclusively peaceful going forward," Pres- ident Obama said in a White House statement released Sun-
Ben Carson Suspends Campaign To Go On Book Tour
President Obama and Sec. of State John Kerry.
day afternoon.
The President directed
Secretary of State John Kerry to issue the waivers and to "take all appropriate additional measures to ensure the prompt and effective implementation of the U. S. commitments" in the agreement.
Sunday marks 90 days since the United Nations Security Council approved the agree- ment.
Surging 2016 Republican candidate Ben Carson has “suspended” his campaign to embark on a book tour.
The retired neurosurgeon made the unusual announce- ment Thursday, explaining he has put all public campaign events on hold so he can pro- mote his new book “A More Perfect Union” and raise money.
Staffers from Carson’s cam- paign will not accompany the candidate during the book tour, a spokesman told ABC New.
“It’s a question of co-mingl- ing from the corporate stand- point to the Federal Election Commission standpoint so it’s just better to avoid any bad ap- pearance,” spokesman Doug Watts told the network.
Federal campaign finance law prohibits candidates from
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using their campaigns, or re- sources associated with their campaigns, to profit personally.
The tour, its planning, and the support provided during it will be paid for by Carson’s publisher, Watts said.
Carson currently has book tour stops scheduled next week
in Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa, during which he will — regard- less of the technical status of his campaign — be able to talk to potential voters.
Carson’s next official public campaign appearance will be on Oct. 28, the day of the next Re- publican primary debate.
Campaign suspensions among successful campaigns are unusual.
Candidates quitting the pres- idential race often use the word “suspend” to describe leaving the race, as Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker did last month.
The last true campaign sus- pension, however, occurred in 2008 when then-GOP nominee Sen. John McCain said he was putting his campaign on hold to help deal with the grow- ing financial crisis.
Obama Administration Pulls Plug On Artic Oil And Gas Drilling
Group Wants CBS To Ditch Donald Trump For Saturday Night Live
The Obama administration on Friday pulled the plug on plans to sell new oil and gas drilling rights in the Arctic wa- ters, a pivot away from energy development in the environ- mentally sensitive region after Shell's costly failure to find crude there.
Interior's move to cancel the sales marked an acknowledg- ment of the dismal economic reality facing aspiring Arctic drillers, who had shown little interest in the potential lease sales amid a global downturn in oil prices. But it also gave greens the chance to take a fresh victory lap for their suc- cessful campaign to press Dem- ocratic presidential front- runner Hillary Clinton to publicly oppose all oil and gas development in the Arctic.
The Interior Department an-
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nounced it had scrapped Arctic oil and gas leasing sales planned for 2016 and 2017, and also said it would deny requests by Shell and Norway's Statoil to extend their current Arctic lease terms past the 10-year mark. Environmentalists cheered a move to scrap sales in a region they say is too envi- ronmentally sensitive to risk drilling, while senior House Re- publican Rob Bishop slammed the administration's "dangerous priorities."
A coalition of Latino groups and liberal online activist plat- form MoveOn.org are calling for NBC to disinvite GOP Presiden- tial candidate Donald Trump from hosting Saturday Night Live on November 7, which hap- pens to be exactly one year from Election Day 2016. MoveOn.org’s petition has climbed from 15,000 signatures Friday evening to 108,000 and counting as of very early Sun- day.
After the candidate dispar- aged immigrants crossing the border into the U. S. from Mex- ico as murderers and rapists, many Latino groups welcomed NBC cutting its ties to Trump on the Miss Universe Pageant and Celebrity Apprentice. But after the network’s announce-
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ment this week that Trump would host SNL, the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda wrote NBC Universal CEO Stephen Burke and SNL cre- ator and executive producer Lorne Michaels that “we are
appalled ... and ask that you re- scind the SNL invitation.”
Trump, when questioned about his standing among Lati- nos this week, told Fox News he’s “doing very well with His- panics” in polls. He remains the solid frontrunner among GOP hopefuls and his presence has boosted ratings for Fox News and CNN coverage of the Re- publican debates to record lev- els. Trump also has juiced ratings with appearances on late night talk shows The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon on NBC and CBS’ Late Show With Stephen Colbert. Trump also is scheduled to appear this coming week on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live. He has also been a regular participant on Sunday morning network news shows.
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