Donald Trump.Kacper Pempel/Getty Images
President Donald Trump's plan to defeat ISIS is essentially the same as his predecessor, President Barack Obama, despite Trump's frequent criticism of the former president's efforts against the terror group.
"The strategy of by, with, through, and alongside our Iraqi partners has not changed," New Zealand Army Brigadier Hugh McAslan, the deputy commanding
Actor and comedian Bill Cosby has seen his once-iconic status badly tarnished with dozens of accusations of sexual assault, many dating back decades. Here's a look at Cosby, from his climb to stardom to his current troubles ...
The seemingly eternal vigil for the death of a man who had profoundly changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of Cuban-Americans was over — finally.
“I'm not celebrating the death of a human being, I'm celebrating the end of an oppressive era in my native country. I hope real change will finally come to the island.”
— Yisel Cabrera, via Facebook
“A beacon of light not just for Latin Americans but for victims of apartheid around the globe.”
— Julia Garcia, via Facebook
“The only legacy that Fidel Castro left was the legacy of death, hunger, pain and absolute misery.”
— Lizandro Rubin, via Facebook
“Whether you like him or not, Mr. Castro, a leader of a small country, was one of the most influential and recognizable leaders in the world.”
— Title Holder, Florida
“Fidel may have passed on, but the ideal of liberation from the horrors of capitalism will never die. Working men and women of the world will have victory one day.”
— Joseph
“There's not much to say about Castro that hasn't been said. He was a 20th century dictator wrapped in vanity, ego, and intolerance of dissent.”
— Mike Thompson, New York
“A truly revolutionary and inspirational figure of the 20th century. His commitment to education, health care and social justice will not be forgotten. ”
— Zack Kazafra Doyle, via Facebook
“Survived numerous assassination attempts, introduced free healthcare and education for his people and didn't comply with the Americans. The guy's a hero!”
— Vinnie Smith, via Facebook
“At least he was given a peaceful end. That's more than his brutal regime gave countless lawyers, doctors, and business owners in the name of 'equality.' ”
— Alexis Boldea, via Facebook
“I was not a huge admirer of the man, but his very presence and consistent rule over Cuba gave me, as I realize now, a certain sense of stability in an unstable world.”
— SDaley, Northern California
“Farewell, Comandante. You, like every leader, did good and bad things. Still, the balance is positive. ”
— Antonio, Millbrae
“He suppressed all opposition, did not support freedom of speech and left a terrible legacy of human rights violations. Let's not associate his name with the word 'hero.'”
Donald John Trump was elected the 45th president of the United States on Tuesday in a stunning culmination of an explosive, populist and polarizing campaign that took relentless aim at the institutions and long-held ideals of American democracy.
The surprise outcome, defying late polls that showed Hillary Clinton with a modest but persistent edge, threatened convulsions throughout the country and the world, where skeptics had watched with alarm as Mr. Trump’s unvarnished overtures to disillusioned voters took hold.
The triumph for Mr. Trump, 70, a real estate developer-turned-reality television star with no government experience, was a powerful rejection of the establishment forces that had assembled against him, from the world of business to government, and the consensus they had forged on everything from trade to immigration.
The results amounted to a repudiation, not only of Mrs. Clinton, but of President Obama, whose legacy is suddenly imperiled. And it was a decisive demonstration of power by a largely overlooked coalition of mostly blue-collar white and working-class voters who felt that the promise of the United States had slipped their grasp amid decades of globalization and multiculturalism.
In Mr. Trump, a thrice-married Manhattanite who lives in a marble-wrapped three-story penthouse apartment on Fifth Avenue, they found an improbable champion.
“The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer,” Mr. Trump told supporters around 3 a.m. on Wednesday at a rally in New York City, just after Mrs. Clinton called to concede.
In a departure from a blistering campaign in which he repeatedly stoked division, Mr. Trump sought to do something he had conspicuously avoided as a candidate: Appeal for unity.
“Now it’s time for America to bind the wounds of division,” he said. “It is time for us to come together as one united people. It’s time.”
Veteran cinematographer Elliot Davis should be nominated and win several awards this season for his stunning visuals in Nate Parker’s “The Birth of a Nation.”
Shot over 27 fast-moving days on location, in Savannah, Ga., edited by Steven Rosenblum (“Braveheart”) and with composition by Henry Jackman (“Captain Phillips”), this cinematography could help land a Best Picture nomination come Oscar season.
“The Birth of a Nation” is based on historical events, set against the antebellum South. It’s about the life of Nat Turner (Nate Parker), a literate slave and preacher whose financially strained owner Samuel Turner (Armie Hammer) accepts an offer to use Turner’s preaching to subdue unruly slaves. As he witnesses many atrocities—against himself, his wife Cherry (Aja Naomi King) and fellow slaves—Turner orchestrates an uprising in the hopes of leading his people to freedom.
That uprising and the cry for freedom was bloody on both sides, and the ever present Christian Bible is held close by those beating hearts.
In many ways “The Birth of a Nation,” which opens wide Oct. 7, is a Christian film that is pulsating with the faithful values that have marked the history of the religion. The Christian faith was spread using violence and intimation, and sure, the word “love” was tossed about, but after the butchery of those who opposed this new road to salvation.
“An eye for an eye,” which comes from Matthew 5:38, has been used to incite revenge, which is usually painted with more violence. Political candidate and poor money manager Donald Trump, who filed for bankruptcy four times, recently used an “eye for an eye” in an April 14, 2016, interview.
The full verse in the King James version states, “You have heard that it has been said, an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you, that you resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if any man will sue you at the law, and take away your coat, let him have your cloak also. And whosoever shall compel you to go a mile, go with him two. Give to him that asks you, and from him that would borrow of you turn not away.”
Nate Parker, the film’s director, writer, producer and star, in press materials, suggested that the audience should leave theaters asking, “When injustice knocks at our own front door, are we going to counter it with everything we have?”
Notice the imagery from Fox Searchlight that is peppered throughout the city. Nat Turner/Nate Parker’s head is in a noose, made from an American flag, which rings with truth but has a double whammy in the imagery. From the P.O.V. of a white supremacist that image is fetching.
“The Birth of a Nation” will open in approximately 2,000 theaters, just when a world is watching the killing of unarmed Black people by police and every time an execution is viewed, the powers are saying, “We do what we want and
There have been a lot of protests. Places where residents tire of seeing police only when teams of officers sweep in to make arrests, and remember well other blacks killed by police officers who did not face punishment.
Their anger at Scott's death made its way downtown. Rioting in Charlotte's center killed one protester, shattered windows and rattled finance executives whose salaries boost the city's median income to $10,000 above the national average. They told their workers in the skyscrapers to stay home. Charlotte police to release Keith Lamont Scott videos
To the protesters, home is a world away from those skyscrapers.
"For the people we serve, the Queen City is only the Queen City if you get on the train and ride into the glimmering, crystal core," said the Rev. Peter Wherry of Mayfield Memorial Missionary Baptist Church, about 5 miles from downtown.
Police officers face off with protestors on the I-85 (Interstate 85) during protests.
(Sean Rayford/Getty Images)
Nearly all of Charlotte lies in Mecklenburg County, which the U.S. Census Bureau estimated had the largest increase in the country in the percentage of people living in distressed neighborhoods during the first 15 years of this century — an index that combines unemployment, poverty rates and other items, like how many businesses close.
Those pockets of poverty aren't immediately evident. Charlotte doesn't have many stereotypical slums. Instead, lower-rent housing is in apartment complexes or condominiums nestled behind tree-lined roads or off the main thoroughfares. Sharpton says cops who called Crutcher 'bad' should be charged
That's the kind of place where Scott lived. Tracy McLean lived in the condominium complex just down the road; she said teams of police frequently come to the neighborhoods full of black and Latino families in a show of force, looking for suspects they often don't find, instead of talking to residents and getting to know them.
"The fear needs to be dispelled," Tracy McLean said. "It's fear, and it's ridiculous fear."
In the mid-1990s, as Charlotte pushed to become a world-class city, its leaders cracked down on crime with a heavy-handed police force. Longtime African-American residents remember James Cooper, a 19-year-old black man killed by a white officer in 1996 as he reached back in his car window during a traffic stop to check on his 4-year-old daughter. The officer said he thought he had a gun.
Donald Trump. Kacper Pempel/Getty Images 
![Bill Cosby after his sexual assault case was declared a mistrial on June 17, 2017 in Norristown, Pa.]({"default":{"load":"default","w":"73","h":"48","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBDVbIi.img?h=475&w=728&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=1133&y=460"},"size3column":{"load":"default","w":"62","h":"41","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBDVbIi.img?h=407&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=1133&y=460"},"size2column":{"load":"default","w":"62","h":"41","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBDVbIi.img?h=407&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=1133&y=460"}})
![Slide 1 of 19]({"default":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBqaRnF.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=1110&y=830"} "Last - Mel Evans/AP")
![Slide 2 of 19]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBqaYIe.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=1387&y=1339"}} "slide 1 - Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images")
![Slide 3 of 19: Bill Cosby during his years at Temple University, seen here throwing a shot-put, Philadelphia, PA, 1962.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBqdKKW.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "university - John D. Kisch/Separate Cinema Archive/Getty Images")
![Slide 4 of 19]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBqaRnJ.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=1662&y=639"}} "wife - AP")
![Slide 5 of 19]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBqdNnJ.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=1785&y=1079"}} "Grammy win - AP")
![Slide 6 of 19]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBqdNpd.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "gigs - ABC via Getty Images")
![Slide 7 of 19]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBqdIu0.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=799&y=685"}} "I spy - Collection/Rex Shutterstock/Rex Images")
![Slide 8 of 19]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBqaYId.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "Man and Boy - John D. Kisch/Separate Cinema Archive/Getty Images")
![Slide 9 of 19]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBqaOVP.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=1278&y=1140"}} "Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids - AP")
![Slide 10 of 19: THE COSBY SHOW -- Season 3 -- Pictured: (back row, l-r) Lisa Bonet as Denise Huxtable, Malcolm-Jamal Warner as Theodore 'Theo' Huxtable, Phylicia Rashad as Clair Hanks Huxtable, Sabrina Le Beauf as Sondra Huxtable Tibideaux, (front row, l-r) Keshia Knight Pulliam as Rudy Huxtable, Bill Cosby as Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable, Tempestt Bledsoe as Vanessa Huxtable]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBqj0eA.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=1083&y=813"}} "cosby show - Alan Singer/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images")
![Slide 11 of 19]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBqdIvK.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=869&y=236"}} "on the sets of Cosby show - Joe McNally/Getty Images")
![Slide 12 of 19]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBqaRnE.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "bill - Alan Singer/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images")
![Slide 13 of 19]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBqd7W8.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=1771&y=969"}} "Awards - Mike Theiler/Reuters")
![Slide 14 of 19]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBqdoao.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=659&y=353"}} "Accusers - Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images")
![Slide 15 of 19: Former model Beth Ferrier speaks during a news conference at which she discussed her allegations that comedian Bill Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her in Denver in 1986, in Denver,]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBqdDcq.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=1167&y=687"}} "Beth Ferrier - AP")
![Slide 16 of 19]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBqdCjz.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=1418&y=798"}} "Andrea Constand - Mark Blinch/Reuters")
![Slide 17 of 19]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBqaTZP.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=496&y=458"}} "Custody - William Thomas Cain/Getty Images")
![Slide 18 of 19]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBqaRnD.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=1136&y=544"}} "Cp[s - Clem Murray/Reuters")
![Slide 19 of 19]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBqdvKL.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=494&y=934"}} "accusers - Kathryn Scott Osler/The Denver Post via Getty Images")
