Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Tuesday's Headlines: Minorities, poor, elderly face hurdles getting ID for voting

Campaign turns nastier as Trump revives controversies around Bill Clinton; Clinton supporters plan battleground-state media blitz hitting Trump's business record; Beijing's scary lesson to the world: Censoring the Internet works; Don't start a fire in Asia, China warns Obama after Vietnam arms deal;
 
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Minorities, poor, elderly face hurdles getting ID for voting
For the first time, 11 states are requiring a photo identification to vote in a presidential election. Many experts say that the process for obtaining an ID can be far more difficult than it might seem for hundreds of thousands of people across the country who do not have one.
Campaign turns nastier as Trump revives controversies around Bill Clinton
His release of a video that includes the voices of two women who accused the ex-president of sexual assault underscored the presumptive GOP nominee's willingness to go far beyond political norms in attacks on Hillary Clinton.
 
Clinton supporters plan battleground-state media blitz hitting Trump's business record
Surrogates and officials in states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida will focus on Donald Trump's response to the housing crisis.
 
Beijing's scary lesson to the world: Censoring the Internet works
What China calls the "Golden Shield" is a giant mechanism of surveillance that blocks tens of thousands of websites deemed inimical to the Communist Party's narrative and control, including Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and even Instagram.
 
Don't start a fire in Asia, China warns Obama after Vietnam arms deal
Obama said the lifting of a longstanding U.S. embargo on lethal arms sales to Vietnam was "not based on China," while acknowledging the two counties shared a common concern about China's actions in the South China Sea.
 
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