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Pay Me What You Owe Me: DC to Trump on $7 Million Unpaid Inauguration Bill Ahead of Planned July 4th Bash
Donald Trump is planning what he almost assuredly believes will be a yuuuge Fourth of July rally speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. But as D.C. leaders brace for what could be a massive security headache with the leader of the free world inserting himself in the middle of one of…
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Toronto Raptors President Masai Ujiri Under Investigation for Allegedly Hitting Sheriff’s Deputy After Championship Win
Did Toronto Raptors President Masai Ujiri get a little too carried away trying to celebrate with his team after they won their first NBA Championship Thursday night—or did an Alameda County sheriff’s deputy go a little too far in policing the arena? Those are questions following news that Ujiri is under investigation on suspicion of…
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Prosecutors Drop All Criminal Charges in the Flint, Mich., Water Crisis; Residents Fear: ‘Our Lives Don’t Matter’
After the years Flint, Mich., residents have spent living without a drop of safe water from their taps and the millions of dollars spent on a probe to bring those responsible to justice, state prosecutors Thursday announced they were throwing the whole case out—and starting all over. Despite assurances from Michigan Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud…
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They’re Coming Baaack: The Boondocks Is Returning to TV—With Series Creator Aaron McGruder on Board
As a big fan of The Boondocks, the animated satire that aired in earnest on Adult Swim in the early aughts, I’ve often wondered what Huey Freeman, the show’s pint-sized “power to the people” protagonist, would have had to say in the era of Donald Trump. Well, apparently, we’ll all get to find out, because…
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Cuba Gooding Jr. Arrested and Charged With Groping Woman at an NYC Bar
Cuba Gooding Jr. is facing up to a year in jail if he’s convicted of forcibly touching a woman, a charge for which he was arrested Thursday after turning himself in to police in New York. But Gooding, through his lawyer, Mark Heller, says he did absolutely nothing wrong, and that video evidence will show…
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Black Student Protest Leads to Prosecutor in the Central Park Five Case Quitting Her Columbia Law School Job
Another day, another example of karma coming for folks in the fallout over the wrongful prosecutions of the Central Park Five. Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Elizabeth Lederer has quit her part-time gig as a professor at Columbia Law School after renewed calls for her ouster by the Black Law Students Association, the New York Daily…
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Ex-White House Aide Hope Hicks Is Said to Have Agreed to Spill Her Guts Before a House Panel Looking Into Whether Trump Meddled in Russia Probe
Is Donald Trump’s former communications director Hope Hicks getting ready to tell all? According to ABC News, Hicks has agreed to go before the House Judiciary Committee next week to answer lawmakers’ questions about whether Trump meddled in efforts to determine if Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election. Hicks, who left the White House…
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Alabama: Where You Can Be Forced to Give Birth After Being Raped and Maybe Have to Parent the Child With Your Rapist
What is up with these Southern states when it comes to women’s rights? (And as a proud New Yorker with deep roots in the Tar Heel State, aka North Cackalacky, aka North Carolina, where it’s perfectly legal to continue having sex with someone who told them to stop, I think I am well within my…
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Nation’s Treasury Department Is Said to Be a Bastion of White Male Privilege
The Trump administration is well known to be well-stocked in rich, white males, but it turns out the Treasury Department, headed by Steve Mnuchin—himself a rich, white male—may be the richest, whitest and most male of them all. According to Politico, over the last two years, there have been “deepening tensions […] over the diversity…
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Mistrial Declared on Remaining 8 Rape and Kidnapping Charges Facing Ex-NFL Player Kellen Winslow II
A group of Southern California jurors found a charismatic former NFL player guilty of the rape of a homeless woman he befriended and of engaging in lewd and indecent conduct in front of two other women, but they could not agree on another eight charges involving another two women, and a judge on Tuesday declared…
