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Civil rights attorney Roy L. Austin, Jr., who focused on policing in the Obama administration, first at the Justice Department and then at the White House, is Facebook’s new vice president of civil rights charged with helping the social media giant curb the racial hatred and violence on its platforms that over the summer led to a month-long boycott by civil rights groups and major advertisers. Austin will establish a new civil rights organization inside Facebook, one of the key recommendation...

Utah police shot at a record-tying 30 people in 2020. But Utahns do not have a clear picture of why this level of violence persists and what can be done about it because the state has failed to collect any data about police shootings.

Report. >> happy sunday >> same to you. new information on chicagos gun violence. police data shows the number of cases has fallen for the 15th month in a row. the city reports seeing fewer murders, shootings, robberies and auto thefts. police say in may alone compared to the same month last year, there were 21% fewer murders and 5% fewer shootings. the chicago police department says pre-holiday raids and the hiring of more officers has helped. another programming note, the next revolution w...

Lets stick to this infrastructure. hes been talking about spending a lot of money on infrastructure, cutting taxes and spending more on defense. will those policies increase our debt instead of reduce them? >> well, the growth from lower taxes and less regulation can certainly generate revenue, it did during the reagan years, thats very important, when he talks about money being invested, hes talking about public/private partnerships, youre looking at new roads and bridges that can be built with...

Donald trump luck. and im going to give him a chance. and we, the historically disenfranchised demand that he give us one too. >> you were there -- >> i was. >> thanks for the invite by the way. thanks for inviting us. >> i was there. >> and thank you, angela for inviting us too. >> what was the reaction after the monologue. >> i guess i was quiet for a minute. there was a lot of euphoria in the room. everyone was really excited not just about this moment, but it was a truly black snl night. chr...

Stories. >> 13%, right? he got through to some black voters. >> im not sure. >> black men, i should say. >> black women completely rejected donald trump as a candidate. they completely backed hillary clinton. when you look admit romney or george w. bush previously, a certain number of black men have been willing to vote republican. im not sure that -- im not sure that what do you have to lose necessarily connected with them, but some of the arguments about personal responsibility, the same kind ...

Attack that suddenly came upon us, we created this. we created this, in so many ways. and notice that i said we. so one of the things, another a, we have to elem nature the againstness. we have to eliminate the againstness and acknowledge how we created this, we have to acknowledge that half the people who voted think the way this candidate spoke, orred president-elect spoke. they think that. and on some levels we knew it. we knew it, but we wouldnt discuss it. because in many ways, we have norm...

Of president-elect trumps proposals, economic proposals, said they would add $7.2 trillion in debt to over 10 years to the national debt, which if donald trump correctly said, is quickly approaching $20 trillion and should be something we do something about. instead, his proposals would add another $7.2 trillion in debt, that would make us a highly leveraged entity as a nation, 150% of gdp. which would rank us up by greece, only japan would have more debt as a percentage of gdp. we know donald t...

Another thing that he did very effectively in his press conference is say, listen, it doesnt matter what your plans are, people dont hear them. >> i got to go. >> come on, don. >> quick word. >> i think he was talking to black people. i actually did see him as turning the camera toward us. i think theres going to be a lot more of that in these final months. i hate to disagree with my fellow brothers and sisters. i think he is now coming home, if you speak -- if you want to put it in those terms....

Which is huge. we do need to have roads and bridges, whether it needs to be done by the federal government as opposed to state and local governments is a debate. if the federal government does it under present law, the davis-bacon act, which has a horrific past, is a law that raises the cost of anything the federal government builds by 25 to 33%. if we get rid of the davis-bacon act. we can do a lot more building of roads. if we can get the epa to not drag out the decision making for years and y...