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President Obama signs spending bill into law that averts a government shutdown and defunds Planned Parenthood that the president supports, the new law follows the announcement by House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio that he will resign from Congress next month....Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky says he hopes to reach a long-term funding deal with Obama and the Democrats in coming weeks....By Cleveland Urban News.Com Editor-in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman

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United States President Barack Obama  By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and the Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473.  Email:  editor@clevelandurbannews.com . Coleman is a 22-year political, legal and investigative journalist who trained for 17 years, and under six different editors,  at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).   WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Barack Obama on Wednesday night, and shortly before the midnight deadline, signed a  spending bill into law that will avert a government shutdown by extending funds to government agencies until Dec. 11. The  U.S. House of Representatives voted 277-151 late Wednesday night to pass the controversial bill, which originated in the Senate and comes following weeks of infighting between the Democrats and the Republicans that control

New national poll has Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson, the only Black in the race, neck and neck with Donald Trump, with Ohio Governor John Kasich gaining ground at sixth place.... Hillary Clinton remains the front-runner for the Democratic nomination for president....Kasich says that he can beat Clinton in Ohio hands down....By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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Republican  presidential candidates and front-runners Dr. Ben Carson (right) and Donald Trump Democratic presidential candidates Sen Bernie Sanders, and front-runner Hillary Clinton Republican presidential candidate Ohio Governor John Kasich, whose standing has increased since the first GOP debate held in Cleveland By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and the Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473.  Email:  editor@clevelandurbannews.com . Coleman is a 22-year political, legal and investigative journalist who trained for 17 years, and under six different editors,  at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).   CLEVELAND, Ohio-  Dr Ben Carson, a retired neurosurgeon and the only Black in the race for president, is now neck and neck with front-runner Donald Trump for the GOP nomin

U.S. House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio resigns from Congress, President Obama, House Minority Leader Pelosi, Congresswoman Fudge, and Ohio Democratic Party Chairman David Pepper comment....Obama praises Boehner as a patriot and a good man, Pelosi says that the GOP is in disarray, Fudge calls Boehner a public servant and seeks an end to partisan bickering, and Pepper wishes Boehner the best but tells Cleveland Urban News.Com that Boehner's resignation "is the clearest sign yet that the extremist wing of the Republican Party has taken over, created chaos and refused to govern...." ....A potential government shutdown and Plan Parenthood are at the center of the controversy....By Cleveland Urban News.Com Editor-in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman

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United States House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner of Ohio (R-OH), who announced Sept. 25 that he will resign from Congress next month From counter clockwise: United States President Barack Obama, U.S. Representative Nancy Pelosi of California (D-CA),  U.S. Representative Marcia L. Fudge of Ohio's 11th congressional district, which includes the largely Black major American city of Cleveland and several of its eastern suburbs (D-OH), and Ohio Democratic Party Chairman David Pepper By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and the Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473.  Email:  editor@clevelandurbannews.com . Coleman is a 22-year political, legal and investigative journalist who trained for 17 years, and under six different editors,  at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).  

Murdered Black Cleveland toddler and 5-year old are laid to rest: Funeral held for three-year-old Cleveland drive- by shooting victim Major Howard, which follows the funeral of five-year-old Cleveland drive- by shooting victim Ramon Burnett in a separate incident....State Representative Bill Patmon joins Mayor Jackson in calling for stricter gun control laws, and community activist Art McKoy calls all of it a conspiracy...Patmon and McKoy interview with Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper....By Editor-in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman

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Three-year-old Cleveland drive- by shooting victim Major Howard, who was laid to rest on Tuesday, September 22 Five-year-old Cleveland drive- by shooting victim Ramon Burnett, who was laid to rest on Saturday, September 18 From left: Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, state Representative Bill Patmon (D-10), and local community activist and Black on Black Crime Inc founder Art McKoy By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and the Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473.  Email:  editor@clevelandurbannews.com . Coleman is a 22-year political, legal and investigative journalist who trained for 17 years, and under six different editors,  at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).   CLEVELAND, Ohio — Hundreds turned out on Tuesday at the Greater Friendship Baptist Church in Clevelan

Democratic Black Judge Lance Mason sentenced to years in prison after beating his wife and pleading guilty to felonious assault, County Prosecutor Tim McGinty, who protects White cops from prosecution that shoot and kill unarmed Blacks, and who protects White judges from harsh sentences like pimp former Bedford Judge Harry Jacob, applauds the sentence.... Violence against women and girls is an epidemic....The visiting judge that sentenced Mason was handpicked by Republican Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor.... Community activists, led by the Imperial Women Coalition, seek the random draw assignment and reassignment of Ohio trial court judges as a bill sponsored by state Representative Bill Patmon on the issue remains stagnant....By Cleveland Urban News.Com Editor-in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman (www.clevelandurbannews.com)

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Former Cuyahoga County Court of  Common Pleas judge Lance Mason, and his estranged wife Aisha Mason By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and the Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. Email:  editor@clevelandurbannews.com . Coleman is a 22-year political, legal and investigative journalist who trained for 17 years, and under six different editors,  at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).   Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty CLEVELAND, Ohio –  Democratic former Cuyahoga Common Pleas Judge Lance Mason, who was one of three Blacks on the largely White general division court that serves Cleveland and its suburbs of Cuyahoga County before his suspension and subsequent resignation from the bench, was sentenced to 24 months in prison Wednesday for beating his wife, a se

Senate Democrats again block effort by Republican congressional leaders to dismantle President Obama's signature Iran Nuclear Deal, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell vows to try again by the September 17 deadline.....All of the Democrats in Congress from Ohio, including Congresspersons Fudge, Kaptur, Ryan and Beatty, and Senator Sherrod Brown, support the nuclear deal, while all of the Republicans from Ohio, including House Speaker John Boehner and Senator Rob Portman, are against the deal....By Cleveland Urban News.Com Editor-In-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman....www.clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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President Barack Obama (left) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and the Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. Email:  editor@clevelandurbannews.com . Coleman is a 22-year political, legal and investigative journalist who trained for 17 years, and under six different editors,  at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).     U.S Representative Marcia L. Fudge, a Warrensville Heights Democrat who leads Ohio's largely Black 11th congressional district, which includes the majority Black major metropolitan city of Cleveland, and several of its eastern suburbs  WASHINGTON, D.C.- Led by Congressional Democrats, the U.S. Senate on Tuesday blocked a disapproval resolution pushed by Senate Republicans that would have scrappe

New Cleveland Police Commission sworn in by Mayor Jackson does not reflect the socioeconomic composition of the largely Black impoverished city, and has suburbanites but no Civil Rights leaders, women's advocates, prominent Black clergy, poor people, or grassroots activists....The Cleveland NAACP, SCLC and ACLU are shunned.... Former lt governor Lee Fisher of affluent Shaker Heights and representatives for Cleveland police unions make the cut....The Tamir Rice family calls the selection process a disgrace and says that commission members should live in the city.....By Editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Cleveland Urban News. Com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper www.clevelandurbannews.com

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 District Attorney Steve Dettelbach  Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and the Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. Email:  editor@clevelandurbannews.com . Coleman is a 22-year political, legal and investigative journalist who trained for 17 years, and under six different editors,  at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).   READ WHO THE MEMBERS OF THE NEWLY SWORN IN 13-MEMBER CLEVELAND POLICE COMMISSION ARE AT THE END OF THE BELOW CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM ARTICLE. NEARLY A THIRD ARE SUBURBANITES, AND NOT ONE GRASSROOTS ACTIVIST OR CIVIL RIGHTS COMMUNITY LEADER MADE THE CUT. AND WOMEN'S GROUPS, THE CLEVELAND NAACP, THE GREATER CLEVELAND SCLC AND THE OHIO ACLU WHERE COMPLETELY IGNORED. THE ONLY TEACHER CHOSEN