Week In Review

ABOVE PHOTO:  Emergency workers help people to disembark a train near the Parsons Green Underground Station after an explosion in London Friday, Sept. 15, 2017. A reported explosion at a train station sent commuters stampeding in panic, injuring several people at the height of London’s morning rush hour, and police said they were investigating it…

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associated press IOWA CITY, Iowa  — An Oregon parent wanted details about school employees getting paid to stay home. A retired educator sought data about student performance in Louisiana. And college journalists in Kentucky requested documents about the investigations of employees accused of sexual misconduct. Instead, they got something else: sued by the agencies they…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  The remains of a house destroyed by Hurricane Irma are seen in Goodland, Fla., Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017. (AP Photo/David Goldman)   By Jay Reeves Associated Press IMMOKALEE, Fla.  — Larry and Elida Dimas didn’t have much to begin with, and Hurricane Irma left them with even less. The storm peeled open the…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  An 8-year-old Claremont, N.H., resident suffered rope burns after an Aug. 28, 2017, incident involving teenagers. The incident is under investigation.  (Courtesy photograph)   Relatives and community activists are demanding that police release more details about the assault. By NewsOne Staff newsone.com Local activists in Claremont, New Hampshire are demanding that police officials…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  In this Friday, Sept. 8, 2017 photo, the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, bottom, is surrounded by high-rise towers in New York. The new towers are: WTC 1, second from left, WTC 7, third from left, WTC 3, second from right, and WTC 4, right. Monday will mark the sixteenth anniversary of…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  In this undated image distributed on Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017, by the North Korean government, shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at an undisclosed location. North Korea’s state media on Sunday, Sept 3, 2017, said leader Kim Jong Un inspected the loading of a hydrogen bomb into a new intercontinental ballistic missile,…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  DACA protestors take to the streets in Old City Philadelphia.Juntos, a Philly-based immigrant rights organization, hosted the demonstration.   (Photo: Solomon Williams) By Jill Colvin Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has begun dismantling Barack Obama’s program protecting hundreds of thousands of young immigrants who were brought into the country illegally as…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  President Barack Obama  (Photo: Frederic Legrand-COMEO/shutterstock) Immigration can be a controversial topic. We all want safe, secure borders and a dynamic economy, and people of goodwill can have legitimate disagreements about how to fix our immigration system so that everybody plays by the rules. But that’s not what the action that the White…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  People board up windows in preparation for Hurricane Irma, in Canovanas, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017. Irma roared into the Caribbean with record force early Wednesday, its 185-mph winds shaking homes and flooding buildings on a chain of small islands along a path toward Puerto Rico, Cuba and Hispaniola and a possible…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  A family is helped to a bus as they are evacuated as the outer bands of Hurricane Harvey begin to make landfall, Friday, Aug. 25, 2017, in Corpus Christi, Texas. Harvey intensified into a hurricane Thursday and steered for the Texas coast with the potential for up to 3 feet of rain, 125…

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