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An illicit bromance pitting Malik Obama and Donald Trump

In June this year, The New York Post carried a front page story about a man with a last name similar to America’s first African American president-Barack Obama. One would be forgiven to make a hasty...

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Revealed: Letters Barack Obama Sr. wrote in Kenya seeking financial aid to...

President Barack Obama has yet to read the letters his late father wrote while in Kenya seeking financial aid to study in the United States more than 50 years ago that were recently discovered by a...

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Hillary Clinton and Democrats have reason to smile from early voting patterns

Monday marks the beginning of early voting in the US presidential election in some of the key battleground states, according to the official voting calendar. Colorado, Florida, Texas, and Wisconsin are...

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New Emails in Clinton Case Came From Anthony Weiner’s Electronic Devices

The New York Times reports new emails found by the FBI related to its closed investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private email server came from devices owned by Anthony Weiner and his wife Huma Abedin,...

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Early Results in Key States to Hint at Election Outcome

Tomorrow, Tuesday November 8th,  America goes to polls. Whereas the 2016 campaign has reached dispiriting levels, voter registration has soared to new height as 200 million people are registered to...

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America decides 2016

Updated 11.57 P.m (EST) Superstitious! Both Clinton and Trump admit they are superstitious and have a routine that they like to follow through for good luck. Trump called in to Fox & Friends this...

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The First Somali-American Legislator!

Ilhan Omar made history Tuesday night as the nation’s first Somali-American legislator, with a commanding win in a state House race. Omar, who faced only nominal Republican opposition in a heavily DFL...

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World leaders react to Trump’s election as U.S. president

Vladmir Putin: Russian President According to Kremlin, Russian President Vladimir Putin formally congratulated Donald Trump on his election victory. Putin said he hoped “for cooperation in ending a...

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Hillary Clinton goes hiking days after shock defeat

It’s been a rough couple of days for some Hillary Clinton supporters, but a young mother’s story of her walk on Thursday will likely help disappointed voters get back on track. Margot Gerster, of White...

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Obama announces 21 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the National Basketball Association’s all-time leading scorer who helped lead the Los Angeles Lakers to five championships and the Milwaukee Bucks to another....

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What Fidel Castro meant to Africans

“The United States will come talk to us when it has a black president and the world has a Latin American pope,”Fidel Castro supposedly told the world in 1973, a joke or prophecy that predicted the rise...

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“I am a Hillary-supporting Ghanaian born woman who became friends with a...

Meri Nana-Ama Danquah, the famed Ghanaian born-American writer, editor, journalist and public speaker, has penned an incisive commentary in the Los Angeles times that challenges Trump supporters as...

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Meet the woman who wrote Michelle Obama’s DNC speech — Sarah Hurwitz

When Sarah Hurwitz sits down at her laptop, she puts on her noise-blocking headphones and imagines Michelle Obama’s exacting voice in her head. The voice might say: No, that transition is clumsy. Or:...

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Hillary Clinton DNC acceptance speech

Excerpts from Hillary Clinton speech as she accepts the Democratic Party nomination for president. “America is once again at a moment of reckoning. Powerful forces are threatening to pull us apart....

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The 6 Best Speeches from the DNC

By MxM The Democratic Party Convention came to a climax on Thursday night Hillary Rodham Clinton’s acceptance as the party’s nominee for president. Before that, Monday through Thursday saw many...

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Mugabe to US Reps: Be nice to me, my pal Trump might win White House

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump appears to have the endorsement of one of Africa’s most notorious despots, Zimbabwe’s longtime president Robert Mugabe. US lawmakers Chris Coons and Adam...

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Ahmad Khan Rahami, chief suspect in the NYC, N.J. bombings, taken into custody

Ahmad Khan Rahami, the primary suspect in three separate bombing incidents in New York City and New Jersey, was taken into custody in Linden, N.J., after a shootout with police. Linden Mayor Derek...

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Obama: “I am the first American President to try Lipala dance in Nairobi.”...

    The post Obama: “I am the first American President to try Lipala dance in Nairobi.” (Video) appeared first on I Heart Africa.

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Minnesota mall attacker identified as American born in Kenya

The man who stabbed nine people at a Minnesota mall before being fatally shot has been identified as an American born in Kenya. CNN identified the suspect as Dahir A. Adan, 22, according to federal law...

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An illicit bromance pitting Malik Obama and Donald Trump

In June this year, The New York Post carried a front page story about a man with a last name similar to America’s first African American president-Barack Obama. One would be forgiven to make a hasty...

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