| Hillary Clinton wins South Carolina as Bernie Sanders flops with black voters Posted: |
| #OscarsSoWhite creator says will not watch Oscars Posted: 27 Feb 2016 01:01 PM PST  By Gina Cherelus NEW YORK (Reuters) - The creator of the #OscarsSoWhite hashtag on Twitter on Saturday said she will watch and tweet about a 1999 coming-of-age movie featuring three black actors rather than Sunday night's showing of the Academy Awards, joining a growing list of activists and entertainers snubbing the event for its lack of diversity. April Reign, managing editor of BroadwayBlack.com, said she will watch "The Wood," starring Omar Epps, Richard T. Jones and Taye Diggs on Netflix on Sunday night as the Oscars show airs on ABC. "What I'm doing is attempting to amplify the discussion," Reign said at Saturday's conference, hosted by the National Association of Black Journalists.
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| Emails a window into state's Flint crisis-management efforts Posted: 27 Feb 2016 03:41 PM PST  LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Thousands of emails newly released by Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder provide a behind-scenes look at how his administration tried to manage the Flint water crisis.
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| How Clinton won battle for black vote in South Carolina Posted: |
| Trump wants to weaken libel laws amid feuds with reporters Posted: 27 Feb 2016 08:43 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Feeling maligned by the media, Donald Trump is threatening to weaken First Amendment protections for reporters if he were president and make it easier for him to sue them.
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| Mexicans back ex-President Fox in vulgar spat with Trump Posted: 26 Feb 2016 02:53 PM PST  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexicans backed former President Vicente Fox in his verbal spat with Donald Trump on Friday, after Fox called the Republican front-runner "crazy" and a "false prophet" and Trump replied that he ought to be "ashamed of himself" for using a profanity.
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| Deadline expires for homeless at San Francisco tent city Posted: 26 Feb 2016 05:36 PM PST  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A city deadline for homeless people to vacate a San Francisco tent city came and went Friday evening with no action.
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| U.S. officials, touring missile defense site, voice concern about North Korea Posted: 26 Feb 2016 07:33 PM PST  By David Alexander VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (Reuters) - Senior U.S. defense officials voiced concern about North Korea's nuclear ambitions on Friday as they toured American missile defense sites a day after watching the military test-fire its second intercontinental ballistic missile in a week. Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work and Admiral Cecil Haney, combat commander of U.S. nuclear forces, said they were confident American missile defenses could counter the nuclear threat from Pyongyang despite a mixed record of success in testing. "I think when you look at what it's designed for, and that's a North Korean type problem, I think (I have) a very high confidence that we would have the capability," Haney said after visiting a nondescript metal building where workers assemble the ground-based interceptor at the heart of the defense system.
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| New Northrop bomber to be designated B-21 -U.S. Air Force Posted: 26 Feb 2016 12:16 PM PST  U.S. Air Force Secretary Deborah James on Friday unveiled the first image of a new Northrop Grumman Corp long-range bomber and said it would be designated the B-21, as losing bidder Boeing Co said it would forego further challenges. James revealed the first artist's rendering of the secret bomber, an angular flying wing, at the Air Force Association's annual Air Warfare Symposium. Northrop won a contract worth an estimated $80 billion in October to develop and build 100 new bombers, but work on the plane was delayed for months while federal auditors reviewed a protest by Boeing and its key supplier, Lockheed Martin Corp.
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