If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them.

During a news conference, when he was standing with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President [Donald] Trump responded to a question from an Israeli reporter about the rise in anti-Semitic attacks - by boasting about his election victory.

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In one of his final acts in office, President Obama shortened the sentences of 209 prisoners, pardoned 64 individuals .The list included Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning, longtime imprisoned Puerto Rican independence activist Oscar López Rivera and retired U.S. Marine Corps General James Cartwright. But missing from the list is 71-year-old Native American activist Leonard Peltier.

Go where there is silence and say something.

As journalist, I'm responsible to the American people, not to the military of the United States.

[The media can be] the greatest force for peace on the earth [for] it is how we come to understand each other.