St. Louis County Police Officer suspended over ugly rant
Officer Dan Page was seen on CNN pushing Don Lemon during protests in Ferguson. But it is a different video of Officer Page that led to him being relieved of duty. A speech he made several months ago is filled with ugly statements about gays, affirmative action, women, and President Obama. Don Lemon looks at some of the most incendiary statements.
Anderson looks at ugly comments Officer Page made about President Obama and discussed the fallout with former federal prosecutor Sunny Hostin, criminal defense attorney Mark Geragos, and George Zimmerman's former attorney, Mark O'Mara.
Deadly explosion in Manhattan
A massive gas explosion caused the collapse of two New York City buildings. It shook the ground for several blocks, leading some in the neighborhood to fear a terror attack or a train derailment. Don Lemon has the latest.
Race and Justice in America: The Michael Dunn trial
Student arrested in death of Massachusetts teacher
A 14-year-old student is in custody, charged with the murder of popular math teacher Colleen Ritzer. The 24- year-old was found dead in the woods near Danvers High School, north of Boston. Don Lemon has the latest developments.
Congress returns, but where to begin?
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Lawmakers return from a weeklong break on Monday with a full plate of unfinished business awaiting them.
There's a lot to tackle, but not a lot of time to do it. Congress is in session for four weeks before a monthlong recess. After that, members of Congress will turn their attention toward campaigning for the November midterm elections.
Here's a look at some of the items on Congress' to-do list:
Financial reform
President Obama wanted lawmakers to wrap up financial reform before they hit the road for the Fourth of July break, but the bill failed to make it out of the Senate.
The bill, which comes after more than 18 months of negotiation and debate, aims to strengthen consumer protection, shine a light on complex financial products and establish a new process for shutting down giant financial firms in trouble.
Senate Democrats need the support of some moderate Republicans to get the 60 votes needed to end any filibuster against the measure. The death of Sen. Robert Byrd, D-West Virginia, and opposition by Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wisconsin, leaves the Democrats with a maximum of 57 votes toward passage.
Black and white, and a target of both
Editor's Note: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has been condemned by many for comments he made to reporters during the 2008 presidential campaign. In a new book, "Game Change," Reid is quoted as saying Barack Obama had a chance of winning because he was both "light-skinned" and didn't speak with a "Negro dialect." Apart from the political implications, his comments - and the reaction to them - have raised questions about how we talk about race in America. Don Lemon, a CNN Anchor, recounts his own experiences below.
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It's 8 in the morning and I'm at flight camp for high school students in Georgia. Most of the students are black teens who claim a real passion for flying. In just a few minutes I get to accompany 17-year old Brandon Henry on his maiden voyage behind the flight controls. He doesn't seem nervous at all, but I certainly am. I have not eaten breakfast. He offers me peanut M & M's. I don't think it's such a good idea to eat right now.
Brandon is a remarkable young man. I admire his passion and commitment to flying at such a young age. What an incredible opportunity. And it made me think about where I was at his age.
A training program like this for minority teens wasn't an option for me in the 1970's in my small Louisiana town. Instead of training to be a pilot or an astronaut or a journalist, at 17 I was trying to not make the same mistakes that some of my older male relatives had made; drugs, babies, jail. There's not much to do in a small town but get into trouble.
Also by 17, I had become quite adept at navigating between three different worlds; the light skin black world, the dark skin black world and the white world. Most southern blacks are very familiar with this. FULL POST
“Planes are germy anyway”
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CNN Newsroom Anchor
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“Planes are germy anyway,” CNN Executive Producer Jennifer Bernstein said to me over the phone today. I was talking to her about how paranoid I got while flying this week because of swine flu.
I travel by plane a few times a week, mostly for work. I’m in the air enough to earn platinum miles status on Delta and a few other airlines. (This reminds me, I need to get rid of all those US Airways miles from my stint in Philadelphia. But I digress.)
I flew to New York last Sunday morning to attend an awards ceremony at my alma mater, Brooklyn College. I had just anchored three hours of swine flu coverage, and all I could think about was being in a confined space with a few hundred other people. At least one of them was bound to have been in Mexico recently.
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