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In Sunday’s violent shooting death of 22-year-old father of two Stephon Clark, Sacramento, Calif., is drawn back to an era of cop killings and rampant abuse of people of color that roiled the city and became a national disgrace. Despite promises to clean up its act, the killing of Clark has brought the city’s leaders back to the place they said Sacramento would never be again.

Three days later, a 23-year-old man, Mark Conditt, who had terrorized Austin, Texas, for 17 days with package bombs that killed two people and injured four others, blew himself up in his car as federal investigators closed in on him. He left a phone video admitting he was the bomber.

Leid Stories discusses the differences in the way both cases were treated

Leid Stories tackles one of the most vexing questions of our time: Who’s in Charge Here?

The Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation has imploded under the sheer volume of evidence, gathered by domestic and foreign investigating agencies, that the purported “charity” and its principals for years have been running a global criminal enterprise and engaging in massive fraud.

Early U.S. oversight of the foundation was largely procedural. But the foundation over the years far exceeded its original, strictly defined and permitted purpose—to raise funds to build a Clinton presidential library in Little Rock, Ark. Instead, the foundation spun off several other “charities” that were raising hundreds of millions of dollars from donors for “good works.” Federal investigators, however, believe the foundation and its linked “charities” provided cover for the Clintons to receive pay-to-play money from “donors” looking to buy political favors and influence.

Several foreign governments also have ratcheted up their probes of the Clintons and their foundation, having gotten little or no accounting for hundreds of millions of dollars donated to various foundation causes. They have been sharpening their prosecutorial axes.

Charles Ortel, a retired Wall Street banker and sworn enemy of charity fraud, has been reporting on Leid Stories the findings of his self-initiated forensic investigation of the Clinton Foundation for more than two years. Today he discusses the details of and likely fallout from the implosion of the Clinton Foundation.  

Yet another week of propaganda overdrive. Yet another week  you gave it no victory.

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Almost no one is neutral about President Donald Trump. But whether pro or con on the president, there’ll be agreement that Trump has dramatically impacted—and changed—politics in the United States.

Leid Stories listeners decipher how, in a very short time, Trump has reset America’s political clock. 

Today, as high school students stage a nationwide school walkout against gun violence, we salute them for their courage, compassion and leadership. They are standing up for 17 students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School savagely murdered in an assault-rifle attack on Valentine’s Day, and they are demanding that the nation’s political leadership enact legislation to ban the sale of military-grade weapons and strengthen gun-ownership laws.

President Donald Trump’s latest round of Cabinet musical chairs is yet another warning about his mental acuity and fitness for the nation’s most important job. But he and his administration instead are selling his psychotic spasms as a genius mind at work that cannot, and should not, be contained. The Mastermind has announced his new obsession: militarizing space in preparation war space wars.

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Leid Stories reports on our “Big Hug” gathering yesterday at The Community Church of New York in Manhattan. Host Utrice Leid was invited give a talk at the historic church, and it turned into a major lovefest, with folks excited about  “seeing” other folks’ voices for the first time. A magical moment!

The Progressive Radio Network is No. 1 in the world for podcast-by-phone downloads, according to Zeno Radio, a leading industry service that tracks how people are relating to internet-based radio. PRN is among the top 15 stations in the world listened to over the phone, ZR found, and among the top three stations listened to over the phone. PRN is blazing new trails in radio.

Two weeklong health retreats in April in Mineola, Texas, could be either where you start or continue on your path to good health. Many have attested that Dr. Gary Null’s comprehensive health program has helped them overcome serious health challenges and/or helped them maintain optimum health. Leid Stories host Utrice Leid tells her own story.

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Yesterday’s discussion generated far more calls than we were able to accommodate, so we’re picking up from where we left off yesterday, looking at where President Donald Trump and his chaotic administration have brought us as a nation and how we’re responding.

Even by his own admission, President Trump thrives on conflict and chaos. He’d like us to believe it’s the secret behind his genius. But Trump is no genius, and practically every aspect of his life is a moment-to-moment battle to stay on top.

Trump’s “genius” world of chaos and turmoil clearly has taken a heavy toll on his own administration, which in the year and 45 days since he’s been in office has yet to forge a cohesive identity and action plan.

Today we take a look at the best clues that Trump is a poor and unfit leader. The best evidence: The gross mismatching of talent and task at the White House; the head-spinning rate of senior-level job abandonment; Trump’s open attacks against people he personally selected for key positions; his dishonesty and  pathological lying; his cronyism and nepotism; his open contempt for the poor; his dedication to retrograde racist “American values;” and his absolute refusal to seek and take sound advice.