*****Jim regrets the delay in getting this out due to an unforeseen illness******* Jourgen Todenhofer, the first Western reporter to embed with Islamic State fighters and not be killed in the process, did an interview with Al Jazeera about his time with the terror group. Todenhofer lived side by side with the jihadist

©2016 Bloomberg News O2RPPP6K50Y2 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama gathered African- American activists at the White House as generational differences are surfacing in a crucial Democratic Party constituency. Obama, who navigated a change in leadership from veterans of the civil rights movement to a new generation in his own presidential