Anonymous ID: ac9f89 Feb. 26, 2020, 1:10 p.m. No.8257519   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7529 >>7654 >>7884 >>8082 >>8196

February 26, 2020 - 02:37 PM EST

House passes historic legislation to make lynching a federal hate crime

The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed historic legislation that would classify lynching as a federal hate crime.

 

The Emmett Till Antilynching Act, which passed on a 410-4 vote, was introduced by Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.). It is named after Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American boy who was lynched in 1955 in Mississippi.

 

Independent Rep. Justin Amash (Mich.) and GOP Reps. Louie Gohmert (Texas), Thomas Massie (Ky.) and Ted Yoho (Fla.) voted against the bill.

 

The measure's passage comes roughly 120 years after a committee in the lower chamber defeated legislation that would have criminalized lynchings. It also passed decades after the House approved its first bill, by Rep. Leonidas C. Dyer (R), that would have made lynchings a federal crime. That legislation was ultimately filibustered in the Senate……….

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/484742-house-passes-historic-legislation-to-make-lynching-a-federal-hate-crime?amp#click=https://t.co/7rtYWqQKDF

Anonymous ID: ac9f89 Feb. 26, 2020, 1:12 p.m. No.8257540   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Trump campaign files libel suit against New York Times over Russia story

by Reuters

Wednesday, 26 February 2020 19:54 GMT

https://news.trust.org/item/20200226182405-m99fn/

Anonymous ID: ac9f89 Feb. 26, 2020, 1:26 p.m. No.8257663   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7686 >>7692

BREAKING NEWS: Police respond to reports of active shooting at MillerCoors headquarters in Milwaukee

 

By Emily Crane For Dailymail.com

20:57, 26 Feb 2020 , updated 21:20, 26 Feb 2020

Anonymous ID: ac9f89 Feb. 26, 2020, 1:31 p.m. No.8257700   🗄️.is 🔗kun

State Dept: US targets Iranian-backed militia active in Iraq

 

By REUTERS FEBRUARY 26, 2020 22:39

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The United States is intensifying pressure on the Iranian-backed Kataib Hezbollah militia and its leader, the State Department said on Wednesday, citing the group linked to killing of an American contractor in Iraq in December.

https://m.jpost.com/Breaking-News/State-Dept-US-targets-Iranian-backed-militia-active-in-Iraq-618964

Anonymous ID: ac9f89 Feb. 26, 2020, 1:32 p.m. No.8257715   🗄️.is 🔗kun

New York monitoring 83 people for possible coronavirus

 

By REUTERS FEBRUARY 26, 2020 21:30

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Health officials in Nassau County, New York, said on Wednesday they were monitoring 83 people who visited China and may have come in contact with the coronavirus, but Governor Andrew Cuomo said the state has had no confirmed cases so far.

https://m.jpost.com/Breaking-News/New-York-monitoring-83-people-for-possible-coronavirus-618956