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President Obama is said to be almost ready to present a huge overhaul of the immigration system that will stay deportations of illegal immigrants who came to the country as children and the parents of American citizens.Edit
This latest police shooting is nothing like Brown or Garner.
An armed 18-year-old black man was shot and killed by a white police officer in Berkeley, Missouri (just two miles from Ferguson). The city released a video that, the mayor says, shows the man aiming a gun at the police and says it cannot be compared to officer-involved deaths in Ferguson and Staten Island. Edit
From ABC News: " Former President George H.W. Bush, 90, was taken by ambulance to the Houston Methodist Hospital as a precaution after experiencing a shortness of breath earlier this evening."Edit
Banning blood donations from sexually active gay men is insane.
The FDA plans to allow gay and bisexual men to donate blood, but only if they have abstained from gay sex for one year. The ban was placed in 1983, during the start of the AIDS crisis.Edit
A think tank is establishing a lawsuit against Harvard, saying its affirmative action practices lead it to reject many qualified Asian students and to accept students with lower test scores. Edit
The police have criticized NYC mayor Bill de Blasio in the wake of the shooting of two officers, saying he has not supported them and has encouraged anti-police protests.Edit