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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos testifies during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Betsy DeVos eyes school gun purchases with federal funds

The Education Department is reportedly considering letting states purchase firearms for schools using federal funds, reversing earlier policies and despite laws that bar states from using cash from Washington that way. Published August 22, 2018

"President [Cyril] Ramaphosa has pledged that the land reform process will follow the rule of law and its implementation will not adversely affected economic growth, agricultural production, or food security," the State Department said in a statement. (Associated Press)

South Africa white-owned farm seizures ‘land reform’ that will ‘follow the rule of law’: State Dept.

The State Department issued a statement Wednesday on South Africa moving to expropriate largely white-owned farmland, offering assurances that the country was engaged in an "open process." And then President Trump promptly undid the statement and said he'd ordered Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to review the program, which he harshly criticized as mass murder. Published August 22, 2018

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said three weeks ago, after a two-day ANC meeting, that the country's dominant party will push ahead to amend the constitution to allow for pure expropriation of land. (Associated Press)

South Africa begins seizing white-owned farms

The seizures are part of a broad program of land redistribution that the post-Apartheid South African government has committed to speeding up, saying the country's current wealth distribution reflects theft from black tribes under the whites-only governments of the early- and mid-20th century. Published August 20, 2018