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An era. ringling brothers barnum and bailey circus is closing down after the 146 years. the company cites low ticket sales, high operating costs and a constant battle with animal-rights groups were a decision to shut down the circus but the show will go on before the final battle. will joins us now with los angeles and the latest. >> wowing audiences for a long time. highflying stones and exotic animals.the big top first one up back and 1871. the show made it through the great depression on world wars and entertain generations of families. the beginning of the end came last may when under extr...

This morning after battling an aggressive form of cancer. that is according to a statement from his church in georgia along with the head of one of the nation's largest mega-churches, new birth missionary baptist church. he was known worldwide as a pioneering leader. the chef at islam was 63 years old. >> switching gears now. ringling brothers barnum and really making a surprising announcement this weekend. the greatest show on earth is ending its run after 146 years. executive citing low ticket sales and a constant battle with the animal rights groups for their decision to shut down. there's ...

The number that's as important. there are two reasons why i want to talk to you about this. the milestone gives me an opportunity to be on tv with you. and the second one, it's an opportunity to just tell you about market performance over the course of the year. the dow jones is 30 of the biggest most influential companies in america, but really, the thing that your 401(k) looks more like generally speaking is the s&p 500, a broader index and i want to give you a sense of how it's performing so far this year. if we can change over to that. we don't have that but, oh, all right. this is how we ...

15th amendments that were supposed to free the slaves, give everybody the right to vote, make men at least all equal in the south. despite those rights existing on paper, though, they absolutely didn't exist in real life and in a lot of places in the country, particularly in the former confederate states, it was a reign of terror. i don't mean that as a metaphor. literally thousands of americans were killed in political and racist violence after the end of the civil war in the lead-up to that 1868 election. and in the end, it wasn't close. grant won it. in 1870 to 1871, he signed these enforce...

But the klan act still survives and even today specifically it make it is illegal to conspire to intimidate voters. i mean, trying to keep somebody from voting, trying to scare somebody from not voting is illegal anyway but what the klan act is ban any private conspiracy to intimidate voters. cooking up a plan to intimidate voters. that itself is a crime. once you cook up that plan, you work with others to concoct a scheme like that and start to put it, try to put it into action, that conspiracy is a crime. still today, thanks to the klan and what they did in the years after the civil war, tha...