Phillip M. Bailey
Chief Political Correspondent at USA Today
Writer. Acerbic. Reporter. Radical. Editor. Truculent. Thinker. Incisive. Citizen. Cynic. Agnostic. Militant. Black Man. Free. Pulitzer + Peabody. Winner.
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1 week ago |
usatoday.com | Phillip M. Bailey |Deborah Berry |N'dea Yancey-Bragg |Savannah Kuchar |Veronica Bravo
• Juneteenth honors June 19, 1865, when Union forces reached Galveston, Texas after the end of the Civil War and enforced the Emancipation Proclamation. • June 19 became a national holiday in 2021 but Juneteenth traditions and celebrations date back more than a century. In Galveston, Texas, one man is turning the city’s historic district into an outdoor classroom.
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1 month ago |
usatoday.com | Phillip M. Bailey |Terry Collins
When George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer five blocks from her home, Nichole Subola visited the site of his death again and again, trying to wrap her mind around it. Police reform seemed within reach as she watched the global impact of the protests.
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1 month ago |
usatoday.com | Phillip M. Bailey
Sporting a "Make America Great Again" hat, President Donald Trump emphasized the need for the country to put its priorities above all else during his commencement addresses at West Point on Saturday. "Gone are the days where defending every nation but our own was the primary thought," he aid. "We are putting America first.
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1 month ago |
usatoday.com | Phillip M. Bailey
Ben & Jerry's co-founder Ben Cohen was among the roughly half-dozen people yanked out of a May 14 Senate hearing for protesting Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy. Within minutes of Kennedy's testimony, five people in the audience rose from their seats and began charging towards the front of the room near the member of President Donald Trump's Cabinet. "RFK kills people with AIDS," the group chanted.
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1 month ago |
usatoday.com | Phillip M. Bailey
The first American pope in history voted in several U.S. elections out of his home state of Illinois, according to records obtained by USA TODAY on Friday, including an absentee ballot cast in last year's hotly contested presidential election. Pope Leo XIV, a Chicago native, has participated in seven separate contests since 2012, including three Republican primaries while living in Will County, a suburb just southwest of the Windy City.
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