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published Dec 5th 2016, 1:57 pm, by Dina Bass (Bloomberg) —Tay take two? Microsoft Corp. is letting users try a new chatbot on the app Kik, nine months after it shut down an earlier bot that internet users got to spout racist, sexist and pornographic remarks. The new one is

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The ongoing public clash and controversy over the way in which police officers treat black suspects reached a new plateau in Atlanta this week when a city police officer who opened fire on an unarmed black man last month was charged with murder charge  Officer James Burns turned himself in

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published Jul 14th 2016, 7:00 pm, by Angela Greiling Keane (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama engaged in a verbal tussle with the Texas lieutenant governor, defended Black Lives Matter and held an impromptu meeting with the daughter of a Staten Island man killed by police as he spent another day

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published Jul 10th 2016, 12:39 pm, by Toluse Olorunnipa and Justin Sink (Bloomberg) —President Barack Obama said protests against police violence in many cities over the weekend are “legitimate,” yet cautioned that attacks on law enforcement officers undermine public support for the Black Lives Matter movement. “Any violence directed at

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©2015 Bloomberg View NTAN0H6JTSEB (Bloomberg View) — When Black Lives Matter activists confronted Hillary Clinton last week, she argued: Look, I don’t believe you change hearts. I believe you change laws, you change allocation of resources, you change the way systems operate. You’re not gonna change every heart. You’re not.

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