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NYPD’s Janitor Charged With Robbing Bank by Claiming She Had a Bomb Gets Busted Again
The New York City Police Department may very well get the award for employing the world’s messiest janitor. A custodial assistant has been arrested for the third time in less than a year—a record that includes a previous charge of bank robbery. Calista Alston was busted Monday in the city’s Staten Island borough for drug…
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Former Ferguson, Mo., City Spokesman Found With Meth: Report
Police charged a former city spokesman with possession of methamphetamine on Tuesday after a traffic stop. Jeff Small, also a former on-air reporter in St. Louis, began working for the city in 2014 following the death of Michael Brown, KPLR-TV reports. On Jan. 6, Small was pulled over by cops for a broken headlight, according…
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Journalists Offered Reward to Ask Trump About US-Wakanda Relations
Want to know what would happen if a reporter seriously asked President Donald Trump how that bilateral trade agreement with Wakanda is panning out? You’re not the only one. On Saturday, a widely shared tweet from Sara Benincasa, a screenwriter and author, called for a journalist to “very seriously” ask Trump “his opinion on our…
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Trump, Whose Racist Record Goes Back More Than 40 Years, Says He Is ‘the Least Racist Person’
President Donald Trump—a man who was sued by the Justice Department in 1973 for racial discrimination, who called for the death penalty against the Central Park Five, who claimed for years that the first black president of the United States wasn’t born in this country, who labeled Mexicans rapists and criminals during his first 2016…
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Racists Commemorate MLK Day by Hitting Northern Virginia Community With KKK Flyers
In Northern Virginia, racists are commemorating the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, too—by spreading Ku Klux Klan flyers attacking the slain civil rights leader. Residents in Leesburg, Va., which is located about an hour west of Washington, D.C., first reported seeing the flyers late Friday night, according to WTOP-FM. The local radio outlet reports that…
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New Yorkers Will Rally Against Trump to Honor Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy
New Yorkers will honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s memory today by protesting the 45th president of the United States’ regressive and racist words and deeds in Times Square. The Rally Against Racism event, organized by the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, will be held at 3 p.m. to protest Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant…
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Haiti, Botswana and Other Alleged ‘Shithole’ Countries Clap Back at ‘President’ Trump
The “shithole” countries that the “president” of the United States disparaged during an Oval Office meeting Thursday would love someone from the administration to say that shit to their face appreciate some clarification of Donald Trump’s explicitly racist and incendiary comments. To recap for everyone just emerging from rocks, boulders or other similarly heavy and…
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Mariah Carey, Tea Goddess, Turns Memes Into Merch, and I’m Here for It
Jesus may have turned water into wine, but leave it to Mariah Carey to flip cups of tea into cash. For the second year in a row, Carey, the living Queen of Christmas Music, delivered a memorable and meme-able New Year’s Eve performance, demanding tea during a live performance on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’…
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Pastor Who Admitted to Sexually Assaulting Teen Put on Leave
Updated Friday, January 12 2018, 8:55 AM EST: CNN reports that a pastor who admitted to having a sexual encounter with a teen will be placed on leave. Andy Savage, a pastor at Highpoint Church in Tennessee, confessed on Sunday to his congregation that he had a “sexual incident” with a high school senior in…
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Get ’Em Bodied: FBI Investigates Colorado Funeral Home That Sells Human Body Parts
Let me pose a hypothetical scenario: You’re burying your loved one—a process that’s known to be stressful and overwhelming—and you find out that, on the very same premises, the owners are cashing in on human body parts. WWYD? The FBI is investigating a funeral home in Montrose, Colo., that’s doing exactly that, according to Reuters.…
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