Former FBI director, James Comey speaks publicly for the first time since his abrupt firing, telling Senate that he took President Trump’s words as “a direction” to drop the investigation of ex-national security advisor Michael Flynn’s ties to Russia in a Senate hearing today on Capitol Hill led by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
NEW YORK – Three Hampton University students represented the campus at The Nation Magazine Student Journalism Conference, where students discussed how to cover politics and social movements with professional, award-winning journalists.
Kathryn Grant, Leondra Head and Alazja Kirk represented Hampton’s Scripps-Howard School of Journalism and Communications on March 24, the only Historically Black College or University at the conference. These students said they enjoy learning innovative ways to enhance their reporting skills.
The election of Donald Trump and running mate Mike Pence set off panic in gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities across the country, as people worried which of their divisive campaign promises would come true.
House Speaker Paul Ryan during a news conference Tuesday about the American Health Care Act on Capitol Hill
On FOX News Sunday, Paul Ryan said House GOP members are working to improve the American Health Care Act ahead of an expected vote on the measure on Thursday, March 23, the seventh anniversary of former President Obama signing the Affordable Care Act into law. The GOP Healthcare bill does not do enough to protect seniors and low-income Americans from rising health-care costs.
German officials included the offices of both Volkswagen’s CEO and the head of the Audi division when they raided company premises Wednesday, March 15 as part of an investigation into emissions fraud, according to a copy of the search warrant.
Michael Flynn, National Security Advisor to U.S. President Donald J. Trump, attends a press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 10 February 2017 .Photo by Olivier Douliery/Abaca(Sipa via AP Images)
A lawyer for former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn told the Trump transition team before President Trump took office that Flynn might have to register as a foreign agent because of his work for a Turkish client, but Trump was not aware of the possible move, the White House said Friday.
The Hampton University intramural tennis team played in a two-day tournament in its inaugural season at the College of William & Mary led by team captain, Kaelyn Lowe. Throughout the two-day tournament, the pirates played against the College of William & Mary, Johns Hopkins University, Virginia Tech University and Old Dominion University in intense matches.
Upon starting the intramural team, Kaelyn received $500 grant from the United States Tennis Association(USTA) to assist in equipment costs.
“A lot of people want to play tennis for fun but not on the actual tennis team. The intramural team gives everyone an opportunity to play tennis recreationally,” Kaelyn Lowe said, a sophomore journalism major from Atlanta. Kaelyn went on to express how the team can move forward in the right direction. “Communicating and knowing the mistakes we make will help us better next time. Making sure that we don’t make the same unforced errors will also help us next time.”
The Flint drinking water crisis has its root causes in historical and systemic racism, a Michigan government-appointed civil rights commission says systemic racism helped to cause the Flint water crisis, according to a 129-page report released Friday.
Federal District Court Judge James Robart in Seattle denied a request from the Trump administration to postpone any further proceedings in his court over President Trump’s travel ban, while the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals considers whether to rehear the case before a larger panel of judges on February 13.
It’s been three decades since we saw Denise Huxtable go to Hillman College, a fictional HBCU in Virginia, where she would meet Dwayne Wayne and the stylist Whitley Gilbert in The Cosby Show spin-off A Different World. BET’s new show, The Quad will premiere tonight where viewers will get an inside look of historically Black university, Georgia A&M University (GAMU) in Atlanta. The Quad is the latest entry in a pop culture tradition that includes A Different World, Drumline, School Daze and Stomp the Yard.
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