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                    [Title] => Obama says racial history still casts shadow on the nation
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Half a century after the violent civil rights movement - known as the "Bloody Sunday" - - shocked the United States into awareness and provoked changes in equal rights for African-Americans, US President Barack Obama said on Saturday that the racial history still casts its shadow on the nation.

[DatePublished] => 2015-03-08 11:01:01 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1429932 [Title] => Officials: US report finds racial bias in Ferguson police [Summary] =>

A U.S. Justice Department investigation found sweeping patterns of racial bias within the Ferguson, Missouri, police department — with officers routinely discriminating against blacks by using excessive force, issuing petty citations and making baseless traffic stops, according to law enforcement officials familiar with the report.

[DatePublished] => 2015-03-04 09:04:19 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1307361 [AuthorName] => Eric Tucker [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/world/20150304/killings-by-police-ferguson.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1429240 [Title] => Obama invoking civil rights struggles past and present [Summary] =>

For President Barack Obama, it will be a week to invoke America's civil rights struggles from past to present.

[DatePublished] => 2015-03-02 08:43:23 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1536709 [AuthorName] => Nedra Pickler [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/world/20150302/obama-racial-politics.jpg ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1413957 [Title] => U.S. Supreme Court sets stage for historic gay rights ruling [Summary] =>

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to hear arguments on whether same-sex couples have a right to marry everywhere in America sets the stage for a potentially historic ruling on one of the country's most sweeping social issues.

[DatePublished] => 2015-01-17 15:34:52 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1500180 [AuthorName] => Mark Sherman [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/world/20140513/same-sexmarriage.jpg ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1405154 [Title] => 2 NYC police officers killed in ambush shooting [Summary] =>

The two New York City police officers who were ambushed and shot to death in their vehicle were "quite simply, assassinated," and the suspect had made Instagram posts that were very anti-police, the police commissioner said.

[DatePublished] => 2014-12-21 14:02:37 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1237143 [AuthorName] => Colleen Long and Jennifer Peltz [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1396071 [Title] => Obama: No excuse for violent, destructive protest [Summary] =>

President Barack Obama sharply rebuked protesters Tuesday night for racially charged violence in Missouri, saying there was no excuse for burning buildings, torching cars and destroying other property after a grand jury declined to indict the white police officer who shot a black teenager.

[DatePublished] => 2014-11-26 08:34:10 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1536710 [AuthorName] => Nedra Pickler and Jim Kuhnhenn [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/headlines/20141121/barack-obama-immigration.jpg ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1389479 [Title] => FBI says it impersonated AP reporter in 2007 case [Summary] =>

The FBI's creation of a fake news story and impersonation of an Associated Press reporter during a criminal investigation undermine media credibility, blur the lines between law enforcement and the press and raise questions about whether the agency followed its own guidelines, free press advocates say.

[DatePublished] => 2014-11-08 11:41:10 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1226232 [AuthorName] => Chris Grygiel [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/world/20141108/James-Comey-FBI-Associated%20Press-AP.jpg ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1388002 [Title] => Hyundai-Kia to pay US $100M for overstating mpg [Summary] =>

Korean automakers Hyundai and Kia will pay the U.S. government a $100 million civil penalty to end a two-year investigation into overstated gas mileage figures on window stickers on 1.2 million vehicles.

[DatePublished] => 2014-11-04 17:18:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1775158 [AuthorName] => Tom Krisher and Eric Tucker [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/world/20141104/Hyundai-Kia-overstated-mileage.jpg ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1380847 [Title] => Obama warns Ebola could spread globally [Summary] =>

President Barack Obama vowed Wednesday that his administration would respond in a "much more aggressive way" to cases of Ebola in the United States and warned that in an age of frequent travel the disease could spread globally if the world doesn't respond to the "raging epidemic in West Africa."

[DatePublished] => 2014-10-16 08:20:28 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1390382 [AuthorName] => Jim Kuhnhenn [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/headlines/20141010/Ebola-Philippines-Benigno-Aquino.jpg ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1374181 [Title] => Obama: Mistrust of police corrodes America [Summary] =>

President Barack Obama said the widespread mistrust of law enforcement that was exposed by the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man in Ferguson, Missouri, is corroding America, not just its black communities, and that the wariness flows from significant racial disparities in the administration of justice.

[DatePublished] => 2014-09-28 14:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804505 [AuthorName] => 
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