| Will Holder run for president in 2020? Posted: 15 Feb 2018 02:56 PM PST ![Will Holder run for president in 2020?]( "Will Holder run for president in 2020?") Sure, I had seen him on TV during his six years as President Obama's attorney general. How would he feel about facing a room packed with reporters – 35, including me, the host – bursting with questions about the Mueller investigation, "memo wars, " criminal justice reform, race, and gerrymandering? It was gerrymandering – the drawing of oddly shaped legislative districts to favor one group or party – that brought Holder to the Monitor Breakfast as we kicked off its 53rd year.
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| At crossroads of policing and murder, a long push for accountability Posted: 15 Feb 2018 02:09 PM PST ![At crossroads of policing and murder, a long push for accountability]( "At crossroads of policing and murder, a long push for accountability") After her son Ramarley Graham was shot and killed by a New York police officer, Constance Malcolm says she dedicated herself to community activism almost by accident. Two hundred miles away in Baltimore, a city experiencing an unprecedented wave of murders since the death of Freddie Gray, a small group of mothers who had lost their sons or daughters to the crime of murder were grappling with agonizing questions about their communities. There are similar groups of people in New York.
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| Florida school shooting: Does 'national emergency' warrant national response? Posted: 15 Feb 2018 01:09 PM PST ![Florida school shooting: Does 'national emergency' warrant national response?]( "Florida school shooting: Does 'national emergency' warrant national response?") As the fire alarm blared for the second time on Wednesday, it seemed like yet another drill for how to deal with a school emergency until a term Alex Azar knew fed over the speakers: code black. "We hear boom-boom, boom-boom-boom-boom," says the sophomore at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School after escaping America's latest school shooting on Wednesday, the worst since 2012's Sandy Hook massacre. The 19-year-old, who had left clues of violent plans on social media, committed the deadliest mass shooting ever at a US high school, and the third incident in the past five months to enter the Top 10 deadliest mass shootings in modern US history.
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| An antidote to despair over yet another mass shooting Posted: 15 Feb 2018 12:56 PM PST ![An antidote to despair over yet another mass shooting]( "An antidote to despair over yet another mass shooting") As most presidents have done after a mass killing in the United States, Donald Trump spoke to the American people the day after the Feb. 14 school massacre in Parkland, Fla. He was consoling to the victims' families but also offered two practical steps. It is directed at the seemingly slow work in ending police shootings of black men, stopping sexual harassment, reducing income inequality, cutting carbon pollution, lowering the national debt, and other big problems.
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