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The 9-year-old boy's outraged mother said she's unable to grasp how her son's school thought it was appropriate to send him home with the hat on his head. 'This stands for a dark time in our history,' Natasha Lea told MyFox8 in tears. A North Carolina mother is reeling after an elementary school rewarded her black son with a Confederate Army hat. When Natasha Lea's 9-year-old son Jacob got off his Reidsville school bus last week, she said she was absolutely floored by what she saw him wearing on his head. Natasha Lea said she can't understand why her son's...

House Speaker John Boehner today called NSA leaker Edward Snowden a “traitor” who put Americans at risk by releasing classified information to the media. “He’s a traitor,” the highest ranking Republican in the House of Representatives said in an extensive interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos. “The disclosure of this information puts Americans ... continued here

"Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?" - Martin Luther King, Jr. This year, on January 17th, we will celebrate the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Each year, thanks to a 1983 federal law that I was proud to vote for, we take the third Monday of January to commemorate Dr. King’s birthday, his vital message, and his enormous accomplishments. In his "I Have a Dream" speech, Dr. King shared his vision of a land where people of every race, religion, and creed could realize the American dream of freedom and opportunity. And in...