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President Obama addressed the ongoing crisis in Baltimore on Tuesday both in a Rose Garden news conference and in a radio interview recorded with Steve Harvey. (Jim Lo Scalzo / European Pressphoto Agency)

Police departments have a lot of work to do to build trust with the African American communities they serve, President Obama said in an interview that aired Wednesday, but remarked that officers in Baltimore showed appropriate restraint in recent days.

Obama condemned the violence of the c

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Charles Barkley, the voluble former professional basketball star, thinks people criticizing President Barack Obama for filling out a “March Madness” bracket are racist.

“You people in America who are upset that President Obama did a bracket, why don’t ya’ll just go say you don’t like him because he’s black,” Barkley told TMZ while leaving the London Hotel in New York City.

Barkley’s comments come after actor Charlie Sheen told the Hollywood gossip website that Obama was “wasting … time when t

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Charles Barkley, the voluble former professional basketball star, thinks people criticizing President Barack Obama for filling out a “March Madness” bracket are racist.

“You people in America who are upset that President Obama did a bracket, why don’t ya’ll just go say you don’t like him because he’s black,” Barkley told TMZ while leaving the London Hotel in New York City.

Barkley’s comments come after actor Charlie Sheen told the Hollywood gossip website that Obama was “wasting … time when t

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Charles Barkley, the voluble former professional basketball star, thinks people criticizing President Barack Obama for filling out a “March Madness” bracket are racist.

“You people in America who are upset that President Obama did a bracket, why don’t ya’ll just go say you don’t like him because he’s black,” Barkley told TMZ while leaving the London Hotel in New York City.

Barkley’s comments come after actor Charlie Sheen told the Hollywood gossip website that Obama was “wasting … time when t

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Charles Barkley, the voluble former professional basketball star, thinks people criticizing President Barack Obama for filling out a “March Madness” bracket are racist.

“You people in America who are upset that President Obama did a bracket, why don’t ya’ll just go say you don’t like him because he’s black,” Barkley told TMZ while leaving the London Hotel in New York City.

Barkley’s comments come after actor Charlie Sheen told the Hollywood gossip website that Obama was “wasting … time when t

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Charles Barkley, the voluble former professional basketball star, thinks people criticizing President Barack Obama for filling out a “March Madness” bracket are racist.

“You people in America who are upset that President Obama did a bracket, why don’t ya’ll just go say you don’t like him because he’s black,” Barkley told TMZ while leaving the London Hotel in New York City.

Barkley’s comments come after actor Charlie Sheen told the Hollywood gossip website that Obama was “wasting … time when t

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George Zimmerman says in a newly released video that a person in his circumstances can’t feel guilty over surviving a confrontation like the one he had with Trayvon Martin, the unarmed 17-year-old he shot and killed three years ago in Florida. He also criticizes President Obama’s reaction to the case.

In the video released Monday by his attorney, Zimmerman said he would feel guilty only if he thought he could have done something differently that would have saved both their lives.

“Only in a

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President Obama delivers his State of the Union address Tuesday to the first Republican-controlled Congress of his presidency. While the administration and GOP leaders have said they want to find common ground and ways to compromise, Obama is likely to offer an array of policy proposals that are unlikely to advance in Congress in the final two years of his administration.

White House spokesman Dan Pfeiffer told NBC’s Meet the Press that the theme of the speech is “middle-class economics” and

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