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Updated at 1:50 p.m. ET CBS News President Obama spoke out for the first time on Friday about the fatal shooting of an unarmed 17-year-old African-American boy in Florida named Trayvon Martin, calling it a tragedy. I can only imagine what these parents are going through, Mr. Obama said from the White House Rose Garden, and when I think about this boy, I think about my own kids, and I think every parent in America should be able to understand why it is absolutely imperative that we investigate every aspect of this and that everybody pulls together, federal, state and local, to figure out how this tragedy happened. Mr. Obama said he is glad stanley drink bottle the Justice Department is investigating the shooting and that Florida Gov. Rick Scott formed a task force in response to the incident as well. The president suggested he was sympathetic to suspicion that the shooting may have been racially motivated. You know, if I had a son, he d look like Trayvon, Mr. Obama said. All of us have to do some soul-searchi stanley cups uk ng to figure out how does something like this happen, he continued. And that means that we examine the laws and the context for what happened as well as the specifics of the incident. Gingrich, Romney, Santorum discuss Trayvon MartinMr. Obama was asked about the shooting on Friday during an event at which he announced the nom stanley cup ination of Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim to be World Bank president. Martin was shot in Sanf
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp on Thursday signed into law a sweeping Republican-sponsored overhaul of state elections that includes new restrictions on voting by mail and gives the legislature greater control over how elections are run.Among other things, the law requires a photo ID in order to vote absentee by mail, after more than 1.3 million Georgia voters used that option during the COVID-19 pandemic. It also cuts the t stanley becher ime people have to request an absentee ballot and limits where ballot drop boxes can be placed and when they can be accessed.Democrats and voting rights groups say the law will disproportionately disenfranchise voters of color. It is part of a wave of GOP-backed election billsintroduced in states around the nation after former President Trump stoked false claims that fraud led to his 2020 election defeat. President Joe Biden called such GOP efforts un-American and sick during a news conference Thursday. And a group of voter mobilization groups filed a lawsuit late Thursday in federal court in Atlanta challengin stanley flask g the stanley cup new law.The Republican changes to voting law in Georgia follows record-breaking turnout that led to Democratic victories in the presidential contest and two U.S. Senate runoffs in the once reliably red state. After the November election last year, I knew, like so many of you, that significant reforms to our state elections were needed, said Kemp, who drew Trump s ire after certifying Biden s vict Dqxr CBS News poll: Resuming relations with Cuba
Updated at 1:50 p.m. ET CBS News President Obama spoke out for the first time on Friday about the fatal shooting of an unarmed 17-year-old African-American boy in Florida named Trayvon Martin, calling it a tragedy. I can only imagine what these parents are going through, Mr. Obama said from the White House Rose Garden, and when I think about this boy, I think about my own kids, and I think every parent in America should be able to understand why it is absolutely imperative that we investigate every aspect of this and that everybody pulls together, federal, state and local, to figure out how this tragedy happened. Mr. Obama said he is glad stanley drink bottle the Justice Department is investigating the shooting and that Florida Gov. Rick Scott formed a task force in response to the incident as well. The president suggested he was sympathetic to suspicion that the shooting may have been racially motivated. You know, if I had a son, he d look like Trayvon, Mr. Obama said. All of us have to do some soul-searchi stanley cups uk ng to figure out how does something like this happen, he continued. And that means that we examine the laws and the context for what happened as well as the specifics of the incident. Gingrich, Romney, Santorum discuss Trayvon MartinMr. Obama was asked about the shooting on Friday during an event at which he announced the nom stanley cup ination of Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim to be World Bank president. Martin was shot in Sanf
