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10Feb/16

Sanders courts U.S. black vote after coasting to New Hampshire win

February 10, 2016US ElectionsAl Sharpton, America, American writers, Australia, Barack Obama, Bernie, Bernie Sanders, Bernie Sanders 2016 presidential campaign, City: Harlem, Civil disobedience, Company: ThomsonReuters, Democratic socialists, District of Columbia Democratic primary, Harlem, Hillary Clinton, Keepin' It Real with Al Sharpton, New York, New York City, Pat Miller, Payden Baxter, Politicians, Politics, Province/State: South Carolina, Sanders, Sian Duprey, Sylvia, Taheeb, United States, United States senatorssmbale

U.S. Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders meets with civil rights activist Al Sharpton in Harlem.
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10Feb/16

Bernie Sanders

Trump, Sanders win in New Hampshire

February 10, 2016PoliticsAmerica, Bernie Sanders, Bernie Sanders 2016 presidential campaign, Company: ThomsonReuters, DAVID ZEVALLOS, Donald Trump, Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump presidential campaign, DONALD TRUMP SAYING, Hillary Clinton, KATHLEEN MARTIN, Katie Sargent, Never Trump movement, New Hampshire presidential primary, Politicians, Politics, Politics of the United States, Progressivism in the United States, Province/State: New Hampshire, Statewide opinion polling for the United States presidential election, Ted Cruz, United States, United States senators, Washingtonsmbale

Trump tops Republican field while Democrat Sanders trounces Clinton in first primary of U.S. presidential election. Katie Sargent reports.
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09Aug/15

Moving Experience – Escalators

August 9, 2015TechnologyAmerica, Elevator, Escalator, Incline elevator, Jesse L. Reno, Jesse Reno, Kane, Nathan Ames, New York, Red Line, Reno, Stairs, Stairways, Transport, U.S. Census Bureau, Washington, Wheaton Station, Wheaton, Marylandsmbale

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Following is the daily “Profile America” feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:

MOVING EXPERIENCE
Profile America — Sunday, August 9th. With so much modern infrastructure featuring soaring atriums and deep subterranean transit systems, it’s not easy to imagine getting by without escalators. However, this efficient people mover was conceived in a far simpler, down to earth time. The first patent for a moving stairway was obtained on this date in 1859 by Nathan Ames. However, it was never built. The first practical escalator was built by Jesse Reno in 1896 at Coney Island, New York. Reno called his device an “inclined elevator.” The longest escalator in the western hemisphere is 230 feet long, at the Wheaton, Maryland station of the Washington Metro System. Manufacturing escalators and elevators is a $1.8 billion a year business for some 170 companies in the U.S. Profile America is in its 19th year as a public service of the U.S. Census Bureau.

Sources: Kane’s Famous First Facts, 2106
Sources: Kane’s Famous First Facts, 2106
Jesse Reno escalator: http://www.lehigh.edu/engineering/about/alumni/bio_reno_j.html
Wheaton, MD escalator: http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/23038/what-are-the-10-longest-metro-escalators/
Escalator manufacturers/NAICS 333921: http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?

01Apr/15

U.S. still cold on China-led infrastructure bank

April 1, 2015EconomyAmerica, Asia, Asian Development Bank, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, Australia, bank, Banking, Banks, Beijing, Business/Finance, China, Denmark, Finance, financial services, Jack Lew, Japan, Multilateral development banks, One Belt One Road, Political philosophy, United Nations, United States, Washingtonsmbale

(BVO) – Growing competition for political influence in Asia, as the U.S. pivot to the region hits a hiccup.

A long list of countries ranging from Denmark to Australia signing up to join the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank – leaving the U.S. and key ally Japan out in the cold.
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08Mar/15

On Selma anniversary, Obama says racial progress made but more needed

March 8, 2015PoliticsActivism, Activists, Alabama, America, Barack Obama, civil rights leader, Civil rights movement, Edmund Pettus Bridge, Ferguson, Geography of Alabama, George W. Bush, Jim Clark, John Lewis, Laura, Liberalism in the United States, Malia, Marianne Robinson, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Jr., Michelle, Michelle Obama, Politics, president, Sasha, Selma, Selma Alabama, Selma to Montgomery marches, Social Issues, United States, Voting Rights Actsmbale

U.S. President Barack Obama observes the 50th anniversary of the civil rights confrontation in March 1965 in which police in Selma, Alabama beat protesters marching across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to demand voting rights for African Americans.
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22Feb/15

U.S. homeland security chief worried about al Shabaab mall threat

February 22, 2015WarAl-Qaeda, Al-Shabaab, America, Anti-Sufism, BLOOMINGTON, Canada, Irregular military, Islam, Islam and antisemitism, Islamic terrorism, Islamist groups, Jeh Johnson, Kenya, London, Mall of America, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Nairobi, NIGERIAN BOTTLING COMPANY PLC, Organizations designated as terrorist by Canada, Paramilitary organizations, Religious controversies, Shopping mall, Somali Civil War, Somali people, Somalia, Terrorism, United States, War in Somalia, Washington D.C., West Edmonton Mall, Westgate, Nairobismbale

U.S. Homeland Security chief Jeh Johnson urges vigilance following a threat made by Somali-based Islamist militants against shopping malls, including the Mall of America in Minnesota.
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13Feb/15

Obama, Apple CEO Tim Cook, speak at cybersecurity summit

February 13, 2015SecurityAmerica, Apple Inc., Barack Obama, Computer security, Computing, Cybercrime, Cyberwarfare, Edward Snowden, Ethics, FACEBOOK INC., Gay men, GOOGLE INC., Government, Illinois, Information Age, Internet privacy, Kim Jong, Kim Jong Un, Luo people, Mass surveillance, North Korea, PALO ALTO, Politics, Privacy, Sony, SONY CORPORATION, Tim Cook, United States, Yahoo! Incsmbale

U.S. President Barack Obama asks tech industry executives for closer cooperation in cybersecurity, as Apple CEO Tim Cook says abuses over digital privacy can be a matter of “life and death”.

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