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Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke, the first Black woman to run the Justice Department s Civil Rights Division, says voting discrimination persists in the United States. Equal access to the ballot box is one of her department s top priorities. We have made a lot of progress as a nation. But we ve still got a long way to go,  she told CBS News chief national affairs and Justice correspondent Jeff Pegues in her first TV interview since taking office last year.Clarke said new state voting restrictions are targeting people of color.                                         Voting discrimination is alive and well,  she said.But, sh stanley us e said, she doesn t view the issue as partisan.         I was there at the White House when President Bush signed the last reauthorization of the bill into law. It passed in Congress in 2006 by a 98-to-0 vote in the Senate,  she said.  I m hopeful that we can get back stanley cup  to that place, where we ve been time and time again, where Congress has worked in bipartisan fashion to renew the Voting Rights Act. Right now, the legislation is stalled in Congress. The Biden administration and Senate De stanley quencher mocrats do not have the votes to pass their election reform measures.Within the Democratic Party, there is growing frustration that the Justice Department and the president have failed to reverse Republican efforts to change state election laws with the midterm elections approaching and control of Congress on the ballot. I understand the frustration that people feel Wveb John F. Kennedy s inaugural address
Police responded to the scene of a suspected hostage situation in Valparaiso, Ind., Friday, May 25, 2012.                              stanley cup                          CBS Chicago                                         CBS  VALPARAISO, Ind. - Valparaiso police have swarmed a real estate office building, where a man with a gun is inside and is believed to be holding hostages, CBS Chicago reported.Police received a 911 call about a man with a gun inside the Prudential Real Estate office building at 10:30 a.m., Valparaiso police Sgt. Mike Grennes said.A worker reached at a nearby Family Express store told the station that their corporate office ordered them to shut down after reports that a man had shot two people and was holding hostages. That information could not be immediately confirmed by police.                                         A 911 dispatcher said there were reports that shots were fired but it was unclear if the gunfire happened inside or outside the building. As of just before noon Friday, the man was still in the building. A witness from a nearby tire store tells WBBM Newsradio that the gunman has at least two hostages. Shortly before 1 p.m., about five people were seen leaving the building, but the stan stanley cup doff continued.         Police say they know who the man is, but are not releasing his identity. Hostage negotiators have been able make contact with the suspect. CBS Chica stanley becher go reported heavily-armed police officers from Valapariso and the Porter County, Ind., sheriff s d

Mhty Hundreds of U.S. diplomats warn that travel ban makes U.S. less safe
Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke, the first Black woman to run the Justice Department s Civil Rights Division, says voting discrimination persists in the United States. Equal access to the ballot box is one of her department s top priorities. We have made a lot of progress as a nation. But we ve still got a long way to go,  she told CBS News chief national affairs and Justice correspondent Jeff Pegues in her first TV interview since taking office last year.Clarke said new state voting restrictions are targeting people of color.                                         Voting discrimination is alive and well,  she said.But, sh stanley us e said, she doesn t view the issue as partisan.         I was there at the White House when President Bush signed the last reauthorization of the bill into law. It passed in Congress in 2006 by a 98-to-0 vote in the Senate,  she said.  I m hopeful that we can get back stanley cup  to that place, where we ve been time and time again, where Congress has worked in bipartisan fashion to renew the Voting Rights Act. Right now, the legislation is stalled in Congress. The Biden administration and Senate De stanley quencher mocrats do not have the votes to pass their election reform measures.Within the Democratic Party, there is growing frustration that the Justice Department and the president have failed to reverse Republican efforts to change state election laws with the midterm elections approaching and control of Congress on the ballot. I understand the frustration that people feel Wveb John F. Kennedy s inaugural address
Police responded to the scene of a suspected hostage situation in Valparaiso, Ind., Friday, May 25, 2012.                              stanley cup                          CBS Chicago                                         CBS  VALPARAISO, Ind. - Valparaiso police have swarmed a real estate office building, where a man with a gun is inside and is believed to be holding hostages, CBS Chicago reported.Police received a 911 call about a man with a gun inside the Prudential Real Estate office building at 10:30 a.m., Valparaiso police Sgt. Mike Grennes said.A worker reached at a nearby Family Express store told the station that their corporate office ordered them to shut down after reports that a man had shot two people and was holding hostages. That information could not be immediately confirmed by police.                                         A 911 dispatcher said there were reports that shots were fired but it was unclear if the gunfire happened inside or outside the building. As of just before noon Friday, the man was still in the building. A witness from a nearby tire store tells WBBM Newsradio that the gunman has at least two hostages. Shortly before 1 p.m., about five people were seen leaving the building, but the stan stanley cup doff continued.         Police say they know who the man is, but are not releasing his identity. Hostage negotiators have been able make contact with the suspect. CBS Chica stanley becher go reported heavily-armed police officers from Valapariso and the Porter County, Ind., sheriff s d