Sentences with phrase «recent national headlines»

LISTEN TO AUDIO HERE In the wake of the recent national headlines, a movement has brought forward a sense of empowerment for claims of sexual harassment.

While some recent national headlines from the con include the presence of an actual firearm dealer in the Chicago area (albeit selling replica weapons), regional and national attendees were treated to a great celebrity lineup and panels galore.

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The National Hockey League's recent troubles have generated plenty of headlines, but a worse fate may be in the offing.

The deaths of Brown and Garner made national headlines, but according to a recent report by the FBI, there was an average of 96 cases per year, from 2006 to 2012, of a white police officer killing a black person.

While the PAC has been rather quiet in recent history, Grimm's racy headlines have been the boost of energy needed to renew interest, said Schwartz, aided in part by a bit on Bill Maher's Flip - a-District campaign which made national headlines.

Still, it has been his ongoing battle with Cuomo, which has become increasingly pitched in recent months, that has dominated the headlines, most recently the perceived snub at a breakfast gathering of the New York delegation at the Democratic National Convention last week in Philadelphia.

Congressional candidate Carl DeMaio made national headlines with a recent commercial.

When Jacobs addressed the Long Beach Democratic Club on Sunday, at a dinner headlined by national party chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman - Schultz, he alluded to the recent war with a sly quip.

Mervis used data from two National Science Foundation (NSF) surveys to show that, despite recent headlines about a Ph.D. unemployment crisis, the vast majority of recent Ph.D. recipients are «gainfully employed» 2 to 5 years after earning their degrees.

And West is more than happy to supply the safer eggs — sales, he said, have skyrocketed since the Salmonella outbreaks in the 1990s and a more recent flare - up in 2006 that made national headlines.

Though Sandra Bland's arrest and subsequent suicide made national headlines — as did the shooting of nineteen - year - old Renisha McBride when she sought help at a white family's door after crashing her car — few Americans have heard about the many other black women who have been killed in recent years, including Yvette Smith, Malissa Williams, and Rekia Boyd.

National headlines accompanied the controversial use of sacred tribal lands for a proposed energy pipeline, while recent proposals have surfaced that would give away federally owned and protected land to states.

Having been the subject of countless headlines, studies, jokes, and op / eds (for instance, a recent opinion piece in a national paper unfairly decried millennials» love for avocado toast as a character flaw and sparked a social media firestorm), they are the most branded generation in history.