Новости за 26.01.2016

Fourteen cadets at the Citadel, the Military School of South Carolina, in Charleston have been punished after a number of them appeared in photos wearing Ku Klux Klan-style hoods over their heads while caroling in early December, the New York Daily News reports. The punishments come after about a month of investigation.

When the lights went up after a Sundance screening of Nate Parker’s film The Birth of a Nation, the bidding war began, leading to the steepest price ever paid for a film at the festival—$17.5 million—by Fox Searchlight.

Love knows no bounds and has no limits.

The first time I heard the term “Jack and Jill” was in high school. A black girl l knew—let’s call her Toni—was living her best life. Her dad had an MBA from Harvard and was on the board of a bank. She got accepted early to Harvard. They owned their place in New York City. They had a summer house! Let me repeat for emphasis: They owned two places in the United States of America.

A student at Desert Vista High School in Arizona who was in a now viral photo of six students spelling out the n-word with their lettered shirts has publicly apologized at a rally for her part in the fiasco, the Arizona Republic reports.

Two armed robbers picked the wrong South Carolina barbershop to stick up Friday after a barber and a client who both have concealed carry permits opened fire on the men, killing one, and sending the other back out the door.

Senator Bernie Sanders, and his rising lead in Iowa, may have been the big draw for CNN's Democratic Town Hall on Monday night at Drake University in Des Moines, but it was former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who turned in a masterful performance.

In an op-ed for the Washington Post, President Barack Obama announced an end to solitary confinement for juvenile offenders in the federal prison system, citing the potential long-term psychological effects.

A woman who accused footballer Jameis Winston of raping her in 2012 while they were both students at Florida State University has settled with the school for $950,000, the New York Times reports. 

Normally, when someone is sworn in as a city councilman, he takes the oath of office in City Hall.

Donald Trump’s rhetoric attracts an army of angry white people to his campaign rallies, but at the same time, he has tried to court the black vote. Can his policy positions balance the interests of the two groups? In The Root’s new series, Meet the Candidates, we take a closer look at where leading presidential candidates stand on issues that affect our community. Previously we examined Democratic contender Sen. Bernie Sanders; now here’s a look at the Republican front-runner.

News outlets across America are talking about how anxious the American voter is heading into the 2016 election. We’re anxious about the economy, anxious about national security, anxious about criminal justice; the whole country just seems like a bundle of nerves looking over its collective shoulders at every new drip of news.

Who is Macklemore?

A U.S. Capitol Police officer died of a heart attack while shoveling snow at his Delaware home Saturday following the blizzard that blasted the eastern U.S., the (Wilmington, Del.) News Journal reports.