The Nest

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    The Confederate Stars and Bars tipped off a debate this summer along racial lines. Now, the widely recognized POW-MIA flag, designed by a Jacksonville woman, is coming under fire. A columnist — who referred to the POW/MIA flag as a “racist flag,” a “banner of lies” and called for it to be taken down on Tuesday — touched off a tornado of criticism. The column by Rick Perlstein, the national correspondent for the little-known and left-leaning Washington Spectator, came to national attention after it was picked up and posted on Newsweek’s website. In the column, Perlstein asserts the...

      The alleged gang member who shot a firefighter in a Staten Island home Friday morning, sparking a tense six-hour standoff that culminated with loud blasts and gunfire, is dead, law enforcement sources tell NBC 4 New York.  Garland Tyree, 38, was found dead in the home on Destiny Court in Mariners Harbor after a shootout at about 11:45 a.m., the sources say. It's not clear if he was killed by police as they traded fire, or if he took his own life.    Tyree, an alleged member of the Nine Trey Gangsters chapter of the Bloods street...

    Over the next few weeks more than three million first-year students will show up to well-manicured campuses all across the nation to begin their first semester as college students. It is a special time filled with excitement and random worries about the unknown for students and the families sending them off. Many of these students will be the first in their family to attend college. The success of these students is critically important to achieving President Obama's goal of America having the highest proportion of citizens in the world with a post-secondary degree or credential. Numerically, this goal...