L.A. NAACP Head Resigns, GOP Benghazi Probe Continues, Prostitution Sting to Be Livetweeted: P.M. Links

  • Dude, that was two years ago.The head of the Los Angeles
    chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
    People (NAACP)
    has resigned
    following the controversy regarding Clippers owner
    Donald Sterling’s racist language and his proposed (second)
    lifetime achievement award from the organization.
  • House Republicans will
    convene a special committee
    to investigate the Obama
    administration’s handling of the attacks on the American consulate
    in Benghazi, Libya, says House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). House
    Oversight Chariman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has subpoenaed Secretary
    of State John Kerry to testify.
  • The family of the boy who nibbled his breakfast pastry into the
    shape of a gun is
    still fighting
    with his school a year later over their
    disciplinary action against him.
  • Two Alaska State Troopers who appeared on a National Geographic
    channel reality show have been
    shot and killed
    after responding to a call in the small village
    of Tanana.
  • The Prince George, Maryland, Police Department says it’s going
    to
    livetweet a prostitution sting
    .
  • The mayor of Seattle has announced a deal to raise the minimum
    wage there to
    $15 an hour
    , the highest in the nation.

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