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Fox News Flash top headlines for Feb 29              126 views • Feb 29, 2020 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Not so fast, Bernie! Flavor Flav  is calling out  Sanders  after the 2020 presidential hopeful falsely listed Flav's hip-hop group, Public Enemy, as the headliner for a campaign event Sunday. A Nevada-based attorney for the rapper, whose real name is William Drayton Jr., fired off a cease-and-desist letter to Sanders' campaign, stressing that Flav and Public Enemy have not endorsed the Vermont senator. "To be clear Flav and, by extension, the Hall of Fame hip hop act Public Enemy with which his likeness and name have become synonymous has not endorsed any political candidate in this election cycle and any suggestion to the contrary is plainly untrue," reads the letter from attorney Matthew H. Friedman, obtained by Fox News. BERNIE SA...

President Trump told a cheering group of black supporters that he deserves “100 percent” support for his record on issues impacting African Americans. Trump regaled the White House Black History Month celebration Thursday night with an accounting of economic statistics and legislative victories on criminal justice reform and funding for historically black colleges. “I just want to congratulate the black community because what you’ve done in the progress you’ve made over the last three years,” Trump said in the White House East Room. “The African American poverty rate has plummeted to the lowest level in the history of our country,” Trump said. “These are good numbers. I don’t know. I mean, I should be at 100% I hate to tell you, right?” The crowd repeatedly chanted, “Four more years!” Trump  praised his advocacy for the First Step Act  that shortened many prison sentences, and his decision to give clemency to multiple African Americans, including Alice Johnson, ...

HAMBURG, N.Y. ( WGRZ ) — Cold temperatures, gale-force winds, and 18-foot waves from Lake Erie created an ice spectacle at Hoover Beach in Hamburg. Homeowners on South shore Drive woke to the ice completely covering their doors and windows. In some cases, their homes were dark because of how thick the ice was. Ed Mis, resident and homeowner in Hoover Beach, says he's never seen conditions this bad before. The front of his home is completely covered in ice that is likely one to three feet thick. "I actually had to go out a secondary door and then chisel my way back into the house by breaking the ice," he told 2 On Your Side's Karys Belger. Ed Mis tells me this is what his house looked like when he woke up this morning. He says some of the ice has completely frozen over the top of his neighbor’s house and he’s worried about what will happen when it all melts. ⁦ @WGRZ ⁩ pic.twitter.com/XVrEomdslq — Karys Belger (@KarysBelger) February 28, 2020 M...

Students across Oklahoma will soon learn about a dark moment in the state’s history that has long gone unmentioned — until now.  On Wednesday, state legislators announced plans to move forward with an initiative that would feature the history of the 1921  Tulsa Race Massacre  as part of the public school curriculum. The new framework, which the state’s education department will soon release statewide, will equip teachers with the resources and support they need to properly teach what’s described as one of the worst instances of racial violence in American history. Thousands of homes, schools and buildings were burned to the ground during the race massacre of 1921 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images) The massacre unfolded June 1, 1921, when an angry white mob besieged Tulsa’s  Greenwood District , an affluent African-American community also known as “Black Wall Street.” The thriving neighborhood of schools, homes and bus...

Bernie Sanders, then mayor of Burlington, Vt., in 1981. Donna Light/AP There are many ways to describe Bernie Sanders: a democratic socialist, an independent senator, a Democratic presidential candidate. But the best adjective may just be: consistent. No matter how you label it, Sanders' worldview is locked in. Over 40 years, Sanders has built his political career on a very focused message about what he calls a "rigged economy." Now he's running for president, which typically means reacting to what's happening in the world, in real time. But even in the wake of terrorist attacks by ISIS, Sanders' primary focus is still where it's been since the 1970s. The "1 percent" On the advantages enjoyed by the richest Americans, over the years, the numbers Sanders cites have changed. But the intensity and message have not. Income inequality It's a theme that runs through every speech Sanders gives. And over the course of a d...