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  • Bill O’Reilly: It’s ‘Open Season’ on White Men and That’ll Help Hillary Clinton’s Campaign

    Cry for white men, Argentina. It seems that’s how it ought to be if you ask Bill O’Reilly. The Fox News TV host described Monday how he feels people are coming down on white men, Raw Story reports, and all of that dumping, O’Reilly suspects, will give Hillary Clinton a leg up during her 2016…

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    Diana Ozemebhoya Eromosele






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    April 15, 2015
  • Wis. Man Shot to Death After Accidentally Hitting and Killing a 2-Year-Old With His Van

    A 40-year-old Milwaukee man lost his life in apparent retaliation for accidentally hitting and killing a 2-year-old boy, the Associated Press reports. After Archie Brown Jr.’s van struck Damani Terry on Sunday, Brown got out of his van to check on Damani, but Brown was then fatally shot by someone nearby. Damani’s older brother, 15-year-old…

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    Diana Ozemebhoya Eromosele






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    April 14, 2015
  • A Wealthy Donor, Playing Cop, Charged With Manslaughter for Shooting an Unarmed Man

    Robert Bates, the Oklahoma reserve deputy who fatally shot Eric Harris while Harris was detained, has been charged with second-degree manslaughter, CNN reports. Video footage of the incident has been released that shows how Bates used a gun instead of his Taser to shoot Harris, who later died as a result of the gunshot wound…

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    Diana Ozemebhoya Eromosele






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    April 14, 2015
  • 2 Ala. College Students Arrested for an Alleged Gang Rape During Spring Break

    Police officials in Troy, Ala., were investigating an unrelated shooting when they stumbled across a video that appeared to show an alleged gang rape that took place in Panama City, Fla. Alabama officials turned the tape over to Florida law enforcement, and two college students from Alabama’s Troy University, Ryan Calhoun and Delonte Martistee, have…

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    Diana Ozemebhoya Eromosele






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    April 13, 2015
  • Obama Says Clinton Would Be an Excellent President; Says He Can’t Predict Joe Biden’s Next Move

    President Barack Obama wasted no time showing his support for Hillary Clinton, who announced Sunday that she would be running for president in the 2016 election. “She was a formidable candidate in 2008, she was a great supporter of mine in the general election, she was an outstanding secretary of state, she is my friend,” Obama…

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    Diana Ozemebhoya Eromosele






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    April 13, 2015
  • NJ Teacher Is Suspended for Having Students Write ‘Get Well’ Letters to Mumia Abu-Jamal 

    School officials in Orange, N.J., said they had no idea that schoolteacher Marylin Zuniga had instructed her students to write “get well” letters to convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, NJ.com reports. School officials suspended Zuniga on Friday. Orange Superintendent Ronald Lee said that Zuniga didn’t get permission from her students’ parents, or receive clearance from…

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    Diana Ozemebhoya Eromosele






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    April 10, 2015
  • Man Tackled by Va. Sheriff After He’s Apparently Handcuffed Faces 15 Years in Prison

    Unfortunately, footage from the police dashboard camera that captured Stuart Fitzgerald’s arrest in May 2014 did not pick up much audio, or footage of the tail end of the incident, leaving Virginia authorities without key pieces of information that might corroborate Fitzgerald’s claim that he is innocent of the charges that he assaulted two police…

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    Diana Ozemebhoya Eromosele






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    April 10, 2015
  • College Student Who Crossed Up Philly Cops in a Pickup Game Is Later Arrested by Same Cops

    According to college junior Samir Hill, the only reason he was taken down to a police station and handcuffed to a chair for nearly two hours while police officers searched his car is that a video went viral showing Hill, 21, and his ankle-breaking moves on the police officers during a pickup basketball game days…

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    Diana Ozemebhoya Eromosele






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    April 10, 2015
  • Former Hooters Waitress Awarded $250,000 in ‘Blond Hair Streaks’ Lawsuit

    Someone should have sent the manager at a Baltimore Hooters these photos of chocolate-complexioned natives in Australia with naturally blond hair, because that might have saved the restaurant chain over $250,000. That’s the amount of money Farryn Johnson, a former waitress, was awarded in a lawsuit she filed in 2013 after she said she was…

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    Diana Ozemebhoya Eromosele






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    April 9, 2015
  • Minn. Teen Gets Into All 8 Ivy League Schools

    College acceptance letters are pouring in, and Munira Khalif, a high school senior from Minnesota, has gained admission to all eight Ivy League schools, KARE 11 reports. Khalif also got into Stanford and Georgetown—two of the nation’s most highly selective universities.  “I was very surprised. The best part for me was being able to call…

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    Diana Ozemebhoya Eromosele






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    April 9, 2015
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