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Today in Black America - July 2

POSTED: July 02, 2014, 8:30 am

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Today in Black History: NAACP attorney and Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first Black to serve on the Supreme Court, is born in 1908 in Baltimore.

The New York Times

Can the G.O.P. Be a Party of Ideas?

Editorial: Fair Compensation for G.M.’s Victims


Deadlock in Congress Appears to Worsen as Midterms Loom


Obama Urges Congress to Fund Infrastructure Projects

Nutrition Group Lobbies Against Healthier School Meals It Sought, Citing Cost

Compromise at the Supreme Court Veils Its Rifts

Census Considers How to Measure a More Diverse America

G.O.P. Power Broker in Albany Is Charged With Lying to F.B.I.

Public Schools in New York City Are Poorer and More Crowded, Budget Agency Finds

A New Leader for Newark


The Christian Science Monitor

Towns can ban fracking, New York's top court rules (+video)

GM sales increase in June despite expanding recall controversy (+video)



The Star Ledger

Baraka invokes hope, idealism in inaugural address

Christie spars with protesters, targets public worker health benefits

Democrats question Port Authority nominee's independence, qualifications

Cory Booker ahead in U.S. Senate race amid voter uncertainty, poll says

Emotional vigil held for cheerleader, 17, killed on Newark street

Christie blames Democrats on judge deal gone bad; Weinberg calls him petulant


The Detroit Free Press

Feds urge T-Mobile customers to examine bills for bogus charges


4 public information meetings scheduled for Detroit's light rail project


Detroit mayor endorses Evans in Wayne County executive race

Scott Benson a no-show for weekly Detroit City Council meeting


Philly.com

Harrisburg: Where little gets done, and no one looks good

Phone-sex cop now 'Cutie Off Duty'

Corbett stalls for budget win while poll shows his second term chances tanking

Slew of changes on South Jersey college campuses


The Washington Post

Unanimous does not mean unity at the Supreme Court

New state laws in effect now, part III


Christie rejects ‘millionaire tax’ as budget crisis deepens


Chart: Eleven states will have breached a $9 minimum wage by 2018

D.C. school system ramps up effort to sell itself to families

Peaceoholics, one co-founder ordered to pay $639,000


Md. Appeals Court limits state sex-offender registry



The Chicago Tribune

Rauner's tax documents show elite tactics, trimmed payments

Boy, 13, charged in shooting of 3 teens

Oberweis calls on Durbin to agree to 7 debates


Cleveland Plain Dealer

Republican scouts discussed 'creative ways' to make Cleveland's 2016 convention bid work


Death of Keystone High School senior puts spotlight on dangers of powdered caffeine

Founding member of Heartless Felons indicted on charges involving gang, intimidation of a police officer


Cuyahoga County elections could be made nonpartisan, under proposed charter amendment


U.S. Supreme Court orders that Ohio birth control case be reconsidered after Hobby Lobby decision


The Los Angeles Times

L.A. Unified agrees to pay low-wage workers $15 an hour


6 L.A. County deputies convicted of impeding FBI's jail probe


Ethics guru, exclusive private school spar over discipline of daughter



USA Today

Supreme Court rules modestly in major cases

Poll taps Obama as 'worst president' since World War II

ACLU: Hampton rental inspection law unconstitutional







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