"I think just as much, if not more, responsibility is on the black community to reduce the reason why the police officers are assigned in such large numbers to the black community...It's because blacks commit murder eight times more per capita than any other group in our society."
"If I'd put all my police on Park Avenue instead of Harlem, thousands more blacks would have died during my time in office..."
The posts were mostly in the form of rap lyrics in which he fantasized about committing violent acts. One recounted a visit by an FBI agent in which he imagined murdering her: "Pull my knife, flick my wrist, and slit her throat/ Leave her bleedin’ from her jugular in the arms of her partner."
The outbreak has been centred on Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. They account for the vast majority of the cases reported to date, with about three dozen cases elsewhere.
...includes women forced into prostitution, domestic staff, and workers in fields, factories and fishing.
We litter. We are loud. We are fat...We are rude to wait staff in restaurants. We are prone to domestic violence...We think we are the center of the universe, and that money entitles us to everything. But the worst of our sins? We brag—nonstop.
the problem isn’t that Black Friday exists so much as the perception that it’s somehow necessary
Shares in oil companies are set to take a big fall Friday as U.S. stock markets reopen from their Thanksgiving closure.
...found that in the Southern Beaufort Sea region of the U.S. and Canadian Arctic, polar bears saw a 25 to 50 percent decline in the decade from 2001 to 2010.
...was also fired from his job because of his incontinence.
(data on)...weekly jobless claims...the University of Michigan's consumer sentiment index at 9:55 a.m. ET, and new home sales data from the U.S. Census Bureau at 10 a.m. ET.
...the U.S. government will issue its second reading of third quarter GDP at 8:30 a.m. ET.
Without concerted action to reduce emissions, the report warns that the planet is on pace for 2°C warming by mid-century and 4°C or more by the time today's teenagers are in their 80s.
A temperature rise of this magnitude would create "a frightening world of increased risks and global instability," the World Bank Group's President Jim Yong Kim said, calling the scientists' findings "alarming."
Investors seem to be in a giddy mood after China's central bank surprised the markets with a rate cut Friday and the European Central Bank hinted that it may take emergency action to support the region's economy.
...the study says carbon emissions will continue to soar until 2050 and by then it will be too late.
Coburn told USA Today, “The country’s going to go nuts. Because they are going to see it as a move outside of the authority of the president. And it’s going to be a very dangerous situation. You’re going to see—hopefully not—but you could see instances of anarchy.”
...no intelligence failure, no delay in sending a CIA rescue team, no missed opportunity for a military rescue, and no evidence the CIA was covertly shipping arms from Libya to Syria.And of course -
In China, the central bank cut its benchmark interest rates by 25 basis points to give the economy a boost, according to state-run news agency Xinhua.
...China's manufacturing sector turned in its weakest performance in six months in November.
...manufacturing and services in the eurozone hit a 16-month low in November.
The Fed will publish minutes from its October meeting at 2 p.m. ET.
The closely-watched ZEW indicator of economic sentiment (Germany) registered its first increase in 2014 in November, and was much stronger than economists expected.
Grainy videos of two attacks in Mombasa and Nairobi, taken on cellphones and circulated widely via Twitter and other social media, show mobs of men surrounding the women, wresting off their clothes and appearing to kick them in their genital area.
The loose collective of online activists tracked down and began posting information about St. Louis Klan members online.
The Japanese economy slipped into recession in the third quarter...
3. Mark Walker (North Carolina 6). The 45-year-old Alabama native is a Baptist preacher and worship leader who never held elected office before winning his congressional seat. Apart from his conservative religious views, Walker not only said the National Guard should be deployed on the Mexican border to stop illegal immigration, but that the military should shoot at migrants. “We got to go laser or blitz somebody with a couple of fighter jets for a little while to make our point,” he said in a September debate, prompting the moderator to ask if he was saying the U.S. should start a war with Mexico. “Well, we did it before, if we need to do it again, I don’t have a qualm about it,” he replied.
The eurozone economy grew by a meager 0.2% in the third quarter, but the numbers were better than expected. Germany dodged a recession with quarter-on-quarter growth of 0.1%, while France grew by 0.3%.
As earnings season winds down, Thomson Reuters data showed that of 453 companies in the S&P 500 to report, 74.8 percent beat expectations, above the 63 percent average beat rate since 1994 and 67 percent for the past four quarters. Earnings overall were expected to grow 10 percent over the year-ago period.
Five major global banks have agreed to pay $3.3 billion in fines to resolve allegations that they attempted to manipulate foreign exchange rates.
A new study from Duke University finds that people will evaluate scientific evidence based on whether they view its policy implications as politically desirable. If they don’t, then they tend to deny the problem even exists.
Quarterly reports continue to trickle in.
...if the positive sentiment continues we'll probably see new record highs today.
