Showing posts with label World News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World News. Show all posts

Friday, 10 March 2017

Would you eat this Dh92,000 taco?

The most expensive taco in the world in Los Cabos, Baja California, Mexico.
Mexico City: Shrimp, caviar, truffle and gold flakes aren’t standard ingredients in Mexico’s popular tacos. But chef Juan Licerio Alcala uses them to create the world’s most expensive taco at

CIA blasts WikiLeaks as danger to America

The seal of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the lobby of CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia
Washington: The Central Intelligence Agency on Wednesday accused WikiLeaks of endangering Americans, helping US rivals and hampering Washington’s fight against terror threats by releasing what the anti-secrecy site claimed was a trove of CIA hacking tools.
A CIA spokeswoman would not confirm the authenticity of the materials published a day earlier by WikiLeaks, which said they were leaked from the spy agency’s hacking operations.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's wife Priscilla pregnant with a girl

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan
San Francisco: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday said that he and wife Priscilla Chan were expecting another baby girl. Their first child, Max, was born in late

Friday, 27 January 2017

Trump strategist calls mainstream media ‘the opposition party’

White House press secretary Sean Spicer speaks to reporters on
 Air Force One en route to Andrews Air Force Bas
WASHINGTON: Donald Trump sat down for an interview on Thursday with Fox News, a network he has consistently praised, while his chief strategist used an interview with the New York Times to lash out at the mainstream Ame
rican media — which he branded was “the opposition party” to the current administration.
“I want you to quote this,” chief strategist Steve Bannon told the Times. “The media here is the opposition party. They don’t understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States.”
President Trump has long enjoyed a friendly relationship with Fox, earning favourable coverage throughout the campaign and in the early days of his presidency.
Cornered during a presidential debate over his support for the Iraq war, for example, he implored the public to “call Sean Hannity” — his interviewer on Thursday — who he said would defend his opposition to it.
On Thursday morning, he described the whistle-blower Chelsea Manning in a tweet as an “ungrateful traitor”, 14 minutes after Fox had broadcast the same words.
Speaking to Hannity, Trump said Daesh fighters were “sneaky, dirty rats”.
“They’re sneaky, dirty rats and they blow people up in a shopping centre and they blow people up in a church,” Trump said.
“These are bad people. When you’re fighting Germany and they had their uniforms, and Japan and they had their uniforms and they had their flags on the plane, and the whole thing. We are fighting sneaky rats right now that are sick and demented. And we’re going to win.”
The interview with Hannity ran the gamut of Trump’s preoccupations on the campaign trail and in office — including his belief in the efficacy of torture including waterboarding against those suspected of terrorist offences and his support for “totally extreme” vetting of people seeking to enter the US from certain countries.
Media attacked
Trump also gave Hannity a tour of the Oval Office, during which he offered one of many boasts: “Look at my desk, papers. You don’t see presidents with papers on that desk.”
Concluding the interview, Trump returned to his obsession with TV ratings, saying: “The ratings tonight are going to be through the roof.”
Bannon, formerly chairman of the far right Breitbart News website, eviscerated legacy media organisations in his interview with the Times.
The media should be “embarrassed and humiliated” by its coverage of the election, he said, claiming that a number of political reporters were “outright activists of the Clinton campaign” though without naming any names.
“That’s why you have no power,” Bannon said. “You were humiliated.”
Many in the media wrongly predicted Hillary Clinton would win the election. Forecasters at the Times gave her an 85 per cent chance of winning on Election Day.
Trump enjoys antagonising the media, a routine that became habit on the campaign trail. Several reporters have also noticed that Trump has a tendency to react to Fox News segments, even on occasion parroting their language.
On Tuesday, seemingly out of nowhere, Trump used Twitter to say he would send “the feds” into Chicago if the city failed to combat an increase in violence. It soon became clear the tweet had followed an 8pm segment on Fox’s O’Reilly Factor — about an increase in violence in Chicago.
In his first public remarks after his inauguration last week, Trump used a speech at CIA headquarters to kindle a feud with the press over the size of the crowd. In a statement riddled with falsehoods the president’s spokesman, Sean Spicer, then delivered a scathing indictment of coverage of the inauguration.
“That was the largest audience to witness an inauguration, period,” Spicer said, a remark which the fact-checking website PoltiFact deemed to be “pants on fire” false.
The next day, Kellyanne Conway, a top aide to Trump, defended Spicer’s remarks, saying the White House’s false claims were “alternative facts”. Her words drew comparisons to “newspeak”, the language of a dictatorial regime featured in George Orwell’s dystopian classic 1984, causing sales of the book to spike.

Wednesday, 25 January 2017

Trump signs order to begin building Mexican border wall

US President Donald Trump holds up an executive order to start the Mexico
border wall project at the Department of Homeland Security facility in
 Washington, DC, on January 25, 2017.
Washington: US President Donald Trump took a first step toward fulfilling his pledge to “build a wall” on the Mexican border Wednesday, signing two immigration-related decrees.
Trump visited the Department of Homeland Security to approve an order to begin work to “build a large physical barrier on the southern border,” according to the White House.
Trump also signed measures to “create more detention space for illegal immigrants along the southern border” according to White House spokesman Sean Spicer.
“We’re going to once again prioritize the prosecution and deportation of illegal immigrants who have also otherwise violated our laws,” he added.
Stemming immigration was a central plank of Trump’s election campaign. His signature policy prescription was to build a wall across the (3,200-kilometre border between the United States and Mexico.

Some of the border is already fenced, but Trump says a wall is needed to stop illegal immigrants entering from Latin America.
In 2014, there were an estimated 5.8 million unauthorized Mexican migrants in the United States, according to Pew, with fewer arriving each year before that.
Experts have voiced doubts about whether a wall would actually stem illegal immigration, or if it is worth the billions it is expected to cost.
But the policy has become a clarion call for the US right and far-right - the core of Trump’s support.
Still, any action from the White House would be piecemeal, diverting only existing funds toward the project.
The Republican-controlled Congress would need to supply new money if the wall is to be anywhere near completed, and Trump’s party has spent the last decade preaching fiscal prudence.
Furthermore, much of the land needed to build the wall is privately owned, implying lengthy legal proceedings, political blowback, and substantial expropriation payments.
A Morning Consult/Politico poll released Wednesday said 47 percent of voters support building a wall, with 45 percent against.
Make Mexico pay?
Trump again promised “100 percent” to make Mexico pay for the wall Wednesday, something the Mexican government has repeatedly said it will not do.
“Ultimately it will come out of what’s happening with Mexico, we’re going to be starting those negotiations relatively soon. And we will be, in a form, reimbursed by Mexico,” he told ABC.
“All it is, is we will be reimbursed at a later date from whatever transaction we’ll make from Mexico.”
“I’m just telling you, there will be a payment, it will be in a form, perhaps a complicated form.”
“What I’m doing is good for the United States, it’s also going to be good for Mexico. We want to have a very stable, very solid Mexico”
Trump aides have weighed hiking border tariffs or border transit costs as one way to “make Mexico pay.” Another threat is to finance the wall by tapping into remittances that Mexican migrants send home, which last year amounted to $25 billion.
Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray and the country’s economy minister are currently in Washington to prepare a visit by President Enrique Pena Nieto scheduled for January 31.
“There are very clear red lines that must be drawn from the start,” Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo told the Televisa network in Mexico just ahead of the trip.
Asked whether his country would walk away from talks if the wall and remittances are an issue, Guajardo said: “Absolutely.”
Trump also wants to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with Mexico and Canada, warning last week that he would abandon the pact unless the United States gets “a fair deal.”
Mexico has said it is willing to “modernize” the accord, which came into force in 1994 and represents $531 billion in annual trade between Mexico and the United States.
Some 80 percent of Mexico’s exports go to the US market.
Ban on Muslims?
Trump has also floated the idea of a ban on Muslims coming to the United States.
Trump this week is set to slash the number of refugees allowed to resettle in the United States, according to the New York Times, particularly from Syria and other Muslim-majority countries.
Around 4.8 million Syrians have fled to neighboring countries alone, according to the United Nations.
An estimated 18,000 Syrians have come to the United States.
Former officials said Trump could slow the flow down by moving resources away from processing visa requests, or cutting migrant quotas and programs.
Executive orders are expected to restrict immigration and access to the United States for refugees and visa holders from Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen, according to the Washington Post.
Citizens from those countries already face large obstacles in obtaining US visas.
But the move has prompted a fierce backlash even before it was announced.
“A ban on refugees would not make America safer,” said Stephen Yale-Loehr of Cornell Law. “Refugees from Syria already go through a 21-step screening process that takes 18-24 months.”
“The head of the US Citizenship and Immigration Services told Congress in September 2016 that not a single act of actual terrorist violence has been committed by a refugee since 9/11.”

Trump asks Comey to stay on at FBI: reports

FBI Director James Comey testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington.
 Comey is staying in his job. A Justice Department memo lists
him among officials remaining in their positions.
Washington: US President Donald Trump has asked FBI director James Comey to stay in his post, despite criticism for his actions during the presidential election which many Democrats say damaged Hillary Clinton’s candidacy, media reports said Tuesday.
Comey informed senior agents at the Federal Bureau of Investigation about Trump’s decision during a conference call last week, The New York Times reported, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter.
The FBI director is a Republican who was appointed by former president Barack Obama in 2013.
An FBI spokeswoman declined to comment when asked about The New York Times report. The Washington Post also reported on Comey’s decision to stay on, citing unnamed sources.
Comey has faced tough criticism from both Republicans and Democrats for his role during last year’s election campaign in the investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was at the State Department.

Relations between the current White House and the FBI are especially sensitive because the Bureau is currently investigating potential ties of several Trump associates to Russian officials.
Trump told Comey during their first meeting at Trump Tower in New York earlier this month that he hoped he would remain in office, the Times reported, citing anonymous sources.
“And Mr Trump’s aides have made it clear to Mr Comey that the president does not plan to ask him to leave,” the paper added at the time.
Although the director is appointed for a period of 10 years, the president has the power to dismiss him.
Comey first angered Republicans in July by recommending that Clinton not be prosecuted, though he called her actions “extremely careless.”
Eleven days before the November 8 election, he prompted more shock and dismay, this time among Democrats, by informing Congress that the FBI was reopening the inquiry into Clinton after some of her emails were discovered on the computer of an aide’s estranged husband.
Two days before the vote, the FBI said the emails contained no new relevant information.
Clinton and many other Democrats blame Comey’s 11th-hour revelation for her defeat.
The Justice Department’s inspector general has launched an investigation into the FBI’s role in the Clinton case, including Comey’s decision to publicize it at a news conference in July and his October announcement on re-opening the case.

Trump to authorise wall and curtail immigration

People protest against US President Donald Trump next to a fake wall with a Mexican national flag and a dummy representing him in Mexico City.
WASHINGTON:
President Donald Trump on Wednesday will order the construction of a Mexican border wall — the first in a series of actions this week to crack down on immigrants and bolster national security, including slashing the number of refugees who can resettle in the United States and blocking Syrians and others from “terror-prone” nations from entering, at least temporarily.

The orders are among an array of national security directives Trump is considering issuing in the coming days, according to people who have seen the orders. They include reviewing whether to resume the once-secret “black site” detention program; keep open the prison at Guantanamo Bay; and designate the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization.

According to a draft, the order on detention policies would start a review of “whether to reinstate the program of interrogation of high-value alien terrorists to be operated outside the United States, and whether such a program should include the use of detention facilities operated by the CIA.” But one section of the draft would require that “no person in the custody of the United States shall at any time be subjected to torture, or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, as described by US or international law.”

The proposed orders could lead to sweeping and controversial changes in the way the United States conducts itself at home and around the globe in the name of security, potentially leading to the reinstatement of policies that have been repudiated by much of the world.

“Big day planned on NATIONAL SECURITY tomorrow,” Trump wrote on Twitter on Tuesday night. “Among many other things, we will build the wall!”

Trump will sign the executive order for the wall during an appearance at the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday, as Mexico’s foreign minister, Luis Videgaray, arrives in Washington to prepare for the visit of President Enrique Pena Nieto of Mexico. Pena Nieto will be among the first foreign leaders to meet the new president at the end of the month.

The border wall was a signature promise of Trump’s campaign, during which he argued it is vital to gaining control over the illegal flow of immigrants into the United States.

Trump is also expected to target legal immigrants as early as this week, White House officials said, by halting a decades-old program that grants refuge to the world’s most vulnerable people as he begins the process of drastically curtailing it and enhancing screening procedures.

In the draft of a separate executive order being circulated inside the administration, Trump would examine the question of whether the CIA should reopen its so-called black sites, secret interrogation and detention centers that it operated overseas. Former President Barack Obama ordered the closings of all in the first week of his presidency in 2009.

The black sites were a highly classified program, so their mention in an executive order would be highly unusual.

The refugee policy under consideration would halt admissions from Syria and suspend admissions from other majority-Muslim nations until the administration can study how to properly vet the applicants. This would pave the way for the administration to slash the number of displaced people who can be resettled on US soil and would effectively bar the entry of people from Muslim countries — including Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia and Syria — at least for some time.

The plan is in line with a ban on Muslim immigrants that Trump proposed during his campaign, arguing that such a step was warranted given concerns about terrorism. He later said he wanted to impose “extreme vetting” of refugees from Syria and other countries where terrorism was rampant, although the Obama administration had already instituted strict screening procedures for Syrian refugees that were designed to weed out anyone who posed a danger.

The expected actions drew strong criticism from immigrant advocates and human rights groups, which called them discriminatory moves that rejected the American tradition of welcoming immigrants of all backgrounds.

“To think that Trump’s first 100 days are going to be marked by this very shameful shutting of our doors to everybody who is seeking refuge in this country is very concerning,” said Marielena HincapiE, the executive director of the National Immigration Law Center. “Everything points to this being simply a backdoor Muslim ban.”

The order to build the wall is likely to complicate the visit of Videgaray, who has a history with Trump. It was Videgaray, then Mexico’s finance minister, who orchestrated Trump’s visit to Mexico before the election, a move seen by many Mexicans as tantamount to treason. He was forced to resign because of the fallout, but his reputation was restored after Trump’s victory, and he was given the job of foreign minister, in part to capitalise on his relationship with the new American leader.

It is unclear whether Mexican officials were informed of Trump’s decision to sign the executive order during Videgaray’s visit.

Trump’s refugee directive is expected to target a program the Obama administration expanded last year in response to a global refugee crisis, fuelled in large part by a large flow of Syrians fleeing their country’s civil war. Obama increased the overall number of refugees to be resettled in the United States to 85,000 and ordered that 10,000 of the slots be reserved for Syrians. He set the number of refugees to be resettled this year at 110,000, more than double the 50,000 Trump is now considering.

By the end of last month, more than 25,000 refugees had been resettled, according to State Department figures, meaning the plan Trump is considering would admit only 25,000 more by the end of September.

Wednesday, 18 January 2017

Michelle Obama: uber-mom, style icon, political force

First Lady Michelle Obama (centre) after President Barack
Obama delivered his farewell address on January 10.
Washington: In 2008, Michelle Obama was tentative on the ca
mpaign trail, wary of saying anything to jeopardise her husband’s historic bid to be America’s first black president.
Eight years later, the self-assured first lady — back on the campaign trail — electrified Democratic Party faithful with a passionate takedown of Donald Trump and what she called his “frightening” attitude towards women.
“It has shaken me to my core in a way that I couldn’t have predicted,” Obama told a rally for Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire.
“This is not normal. This is not politics as usual. This is disgrac

Trump most disliked modern president

President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a news
conference in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York.
Washington: Donald Trump is poised to take office with the lowest approval ratings of an
y new president in recent history, but despite a chaotic transition Americans trust the billionaire on one crucial point: jobs.
Since the real estate developer’s White House win in November, companies have lined up to announce new factories or jobs in the United States, including air conditioning manufacturer Carrier, Japan’s SoftBank, Ford, Fiat Chrysler and Amazon with a headline-grabbing

Saturday, 14 January 2017

Woman charged with kidnapping teenage daughter at birth

Walterboro, South Carolina: Neighbours knew them for years as a church-going mother and her
polite teenage daughter before police swarmed Gloria Williams’ home in this small, quiet South Carolina city.
Williams, 51, was arrested on kidnapping charges. Then came the real shocker: Police identified the victim as the 18-year-old woman Williams had raised as her daughter. Investigators said DNA analysis proved she had been stolen as an infant from a hospital in Jacksonville, Florida.
“She wasn’t an abused child or a child who got in trouble,” a stunned Joseph Jenkins said of the young woman who lived across the street. “But she grew up with a lie for 18 years.”
She grew up as Alexis Manigo, but has now learned she was born as Kamiyah Mobley. Jacksonville Sheriff Mike Williams described her on Friday as being in good health

Friday, 13 January 2017

WhatsApp vulnerable to snooping, report says

WhatsApp is vulnerable to snooping
London: The Facebook-owned mobile messaging service WhatsApp is vulnerable to interception, the Guardian newspaper reported on Friday, sparking concern over an app advertised as putting an emphasis on privacy.
The report said that WhatsApp messages could be read without its billion-plus users knowing due to a security backdoor in the way the company has implemented its end-to-end encryption protocol.
The system relies on unique security keys “that are traded and verified between users to guarantee communications are secure

Man’s best friend, bacteria’s worst enemy

VANCOUVER, CANADA:
Hospital ID badge dangling from his neck, Angus considered the empty bed in front of him. After a few strong sniffs, he moved on.
Nearing the next bed, his floppy ears perked up before he stopped dead in his tracks, tapping his paw and eyeing his handler expectantly.
The two-year-old English springer spaniel is believed to be the only canine hospital employee in the world trained to sniff out the notorious superbug Clostridium difficile, or C difficile.
The seeds of Angus’ unlikely career were planted three years ago, after Teresa Zurberg, a Vancouver resident, suffered a C difficile infection. Her bout with the bacteria which attacks people whose immune systems have been weakened by

Lessons in respect at China’s Confucius kindergartens

Girls learn to perform a tea ceremony at a Confucius
 kindergarten in Wuhan, China.
Wuhan, China: Children in scholars hats bow before a statue of Confucius, the Chinese sage once reviled by Communist authorities but now enjoying a revival as parents look to instill his values in their offspring.
With central government backing, hundreds of private schools dedicated to Confucian teachings have sprung up across the country in response to growing demand for more traditional education.
At a new institution in the central city of Wuhan, about 30 students aged two to six chant: “Our respect to you, Master Confucius. Thank you for the kindness of your teaching and your compassion”.

How 8-ft-high chicken manure triggered fire


Little Rick, Arkansas: How high is too high for a pile of chicken manure?
Eight feet, apparently.
Chicken waste is an excellent fertilizer, but with the growing season still weeks away it's piling up in barns across the South. To reduce the risk of fire from spontaneous combustion, poultry experts are warning farmers that piles 6½- to 7-feet high are high enough.
One pile caught fire in western Arkansas this week, triggering a wildfire that destroyed a mobile home.

Thursday, 12 January 2017

Sunny the White House dog bites teenager

Sunny, one of the Obamas' two dogs
Washington: Blood was spilled Monday at the White House, but the culprit’s politics were not to
blame: the Obamas’ dog Sunny bit a teenaged guest of the family, leaving a gash above her cheekbone, TMZ reported on Thursday.
The 18-year-old girl, whose name has not been released, was trying to pet the animal, a female Portuguese water dog, when it bit her, according to the TMZ website, which specializes in celebrity news.
The president’s physician, Dr. Ronny Jackson, deemed it necessary to close the wound with a few stitches.

Homeless man makes selfless sacrifice to help shivering young couple left stranded after night out

Charlotte and Taylor say the experience has changed their lives
Joey (not pictured) immediately offered his
coat and duvet to the pair
A couple who missed their last train home and were stranded in freezing January weather say their lives have changed after they met a kind-hearted homeless man .

Charlotte Ellis and boyfriend Taylor Waldon, both aged 22, were on their way home from a night out in Covent Garden, London, when they realised the train station gates were closed and, in their "drunken state", they had missed their chance to get back.
A couple who missed their last train home and were stranded in freezing January weather say their lives have changed after they met a kind-hearted homeless man .

Charlotte Ellis and boyfriend Taylor Waldon, both aged 22, were on their way home from a night

Obama surprises Biden with America's highest honour

U.S. President Barack Obama presents the Medal of Freedom
 to U.S. Vice President Joe Biden during an event at the White
 House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017

Washington: Barack Obama awarded Vice-President Joe Biden America’s highest civilian honor

on Thursday, in an emotional surprise ceremony at the White House.
Biden was reduced to tears as the president in his last days in office surprised him by announcing he would be awarding the 74-year-old the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
In remarks billed as a joint farewell to family, friends and staff before they leave the White House next week, Obama described Biden as “the finest vice-president we have ever seen” and a “lion of American history.”
“So, Joe, for your faith in your fellow Americans, for your love of country, and for your lifetime of service that will endure through the generations, I’d like to ask the military aid to join us on stage. For the final time as president, I am pleased to award our nation’s highest civilian honour, the presidential medal of freedom.”
Biden’s jaw dropped, he rolled his head back and turned his face away from the audience to wipe away the tears.
After composing himself and receiving the medal, Biden stepped up to the dais and looked around the room in search of his chief of staff — and fired him, in jest, for not giving him early warning.
“I had no inkling,” Biden said.
“Mr President, I’m indebted to you. I’m indebted to your friendship. I’m indebted to your family,” he said.

US government watchdog to probe FBI Clinton email actions

Hillary Clinton
WASHINGTON: A U.S. government watchdog said on Thursday it would examine whether the Federal Bureau of Investigation followed proper procedures in its probe of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server.
The inspector general’s announcement comes amid outcry from Democrats who say Clinton’s loss to President-elect Donald Trump was in part due to Comey's bringing Clinton's emails back into the public spotlight less than two weeks before the 2016 election.
The Justice Department's Office of Inspector General said its probe would focus in part on decisions leading up to public communications by FBI Director James

London Mayor Khan: Britain heading for ‘muddled Brexit’


London Mayor Sadiq Khan
LONDON: London Mayor Sadiq Khan will say on Thursday that urgent action is needed to prevent Britain slipping towards a “muddled Brexit”, arguing that the capital needs more control over its economic policy to cope with leaving the European Union.
Khan, a member of the opposition Labour Party, was elected to the influential position of mayor last May on a promise to stand up for the city’s businesses. He has called for the government to avoid the uncertainty of a messy divorce from the EU, saying it would damage confidence in the city.
“It’s deeply concerning that we still appear to have ‘muddled thinking’ at the heart of government so soon before the negotiations are set to start,” Khan will say in a speech later on Thursday according to a statement from his office.
His words echo those of Britain’s former ambassador to the EU, Ivan Rogers, who resigned last week saying that Prime Minister Theresa May government was “muddled” in its approach.
May refuted the suggestion, saying she would set out her strategy over the coming weeks.

“The only thing that would be as damaging as a hard Brexit is a muddled Brexit, and — unfortunately — it looks like that is where we are heading without urgent action,” Khan is due to say.
He will reiterate his view that London needs preferential access to the single market, access to skilled workers in Europe and a transitional agreement with the EU to smoothen the Brexit process.
Khan will also restate his case for London to have more control over its economy policy. He will promise to compile his own industrial strategy for London to feed into the government’s plan to reshape the British economy.
May has promised to draw up an industrial strategy that will revive areas of the country which have suffered from a decades-long decline in manufacturing, to try to rebalance the services-reliant economy and re-engage with disillusioned working-class voters.
“We need more control of the right levers to improve competitiveness, stimulate growth and invest in our long-term future,” Khan will say. “If we want an industrial strategy that works for London and therefore for Britain, we must have more control.”

Nine things Obama will be remembered for

President Barack Obama waves as he steps off Air Force One.
WASHINGTON: As Barack Obama prepares to leave office on January 20, here are nine things his presidency may be remembered for:
 Making history
If historians were to write only one thing about Barack Hussein Obama, they would likely note that - 143 years after slavery was abolished - a young Illinois senator became the first black president of the United States.
Obama, just 47 at his 2009 inauguration, harnessed magisterial oratory to rally a diverse electoral coalition behind a message of "hope and change."
In office, Obama sometimes struggled to turn that poetry into the prose of governance. Racial tensions - underscored by police shootings of unarmed black men and
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