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Study Reveals Small Fraud Rate in Elections
“Despite the push for strict voter ID laws in a charged partisan and racial debate, the most exhaustive study ever of American election fraud reveals the rate is infinitesimal,” according to News21, a national investigative reporting project at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. “Since 2000, a time…
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Watch This: First Lady and Gabby D on 'Leno'
Michelle Obama made another appearance on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno last night, and it’s no surprise that in addition to the stories about her trip to the Olympics, the kiss-cam moment seen around the world and the celebration surrounding the celebration of the Supreme Court’s decision upholding the Affordable Care Act, the host…
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Who Is President Obama's Olympic Twin?
(The Root) — The Olympics and presidential elections have more in common than we sometimes acknowledge. Both take place every four years. Both are fiercely competitive. Both cost a great deal of money and take years of sacrifice and preparation to make it to the finish line. International eyes watch both competitions out of curiosity…
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Did Semenya Lose to Avoid Gender Questions?
In 2009, when South African runner Caster Semenya won the world title, the victory, combined with what many viewed to be masculine physical traits, led to an inquiry by her country’s governing body into whether she was actually a woman. That’s why, Slate reports, when she came in second in the 800-meter at the London…
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Team USA Wins Olympic Gold in Basketball
Besting Spain’s basketball team in a close game on Sunday, Team USA garnered the gold medal at the 2012 Olympic Games, according to USA Today. This win means Team USA has won 14 of the 16 games they have played. For whatever the U.S. missed in size at the London Olympics, it compensated for with overwhelming…
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Gabby Douglas Wants to Meet Venus, Serena
Since Gabby Douglas became the first African-American woman to win a gold in all-around gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics, it has been hard to fathom that she is just 16 years old. The teenager spoke to Essence about her success, the encouraging messages she’s received from President Obama and Oprah and whom she looks…
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Rarely a Gold Medal for African Nations
(The Root) — “The Star-Spangled Banner” has already played more than three dozen times at the Olympics as American athletes have taken gold medals. Britain’s “God Save the Queen” has had its own hit run at the London Games, with more than two dozen podium renditions. But for more than half of the African nations,…
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Zakaria Suspended From Time, CNN Over Plagiarism
“I Made a Terrible Mistake,” Commentator Says “Time editor-at-large and CNN host Fareed Zakaria was suspended from both places for a month on Friday after admitting to lifting parts of a story from the New Yorker,” Jack Mirkinson and Rebecca Shapiro reported for the Huffington Post. “The Washington Post, which publishes a separate column by…
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Don't Hate Lolo Because She's Beautiful
(The Root) — So there was U.S. hurdler Lolo Jones nearly in tears on the Today show one day after she finished fourth in the 100-meter hurdles at the London Olympics. But Jones wasn’t just upset about failing to medal in an event that she’d trained for most of her life. What made Jones angry…
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Indie Runner Carries South Sudan's Hopes
(The Root) — Marathoner Guor Marial has said that he used to hate running. That’s because, he says, growing up in Southern Sudan, he used to run for his life. During the country’s decadeslong civil war between the Northern government and Southern rebels, Marial, 28, saw many family members die at the hands of federal…