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  • T.I. Says Iggy Azalea ‘Switched Up’ Once She Figured She Didn’t Need Black Folks Anymore

    T.I. Says Iggy Azalea ‘Switched Up’ Once She Figured She Didn’t Need Black Folks Anymore

    T.I. on Monday continued his regrets tour when it comes to former protégé Iggy Azalea, saying that the Australian-born rapper fell off, in part, after she decided to switch things up once she realized “she didn’t really need black people” anymore. Talking with the hosts of The Breakfast Club, T.I. spoke about what he felt…

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    Dara Sharif






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    October 28, 2019
  • Donald Trump Takes His ‘Buffoonery’ on the Road, Trashing Chicago and Its Top Cop in Speech Before Law Enforcement Group

    Donald Trump Takes His ‘Buffoonery’ on the Road, Trashing Chicago and Its Top Cop in Speech Before Law Enforcement Group

    As he has a tendency to do—especially when it comes to black or brown strongholds, from San Juan to Baltimore—Donald Trump trashed Chicago and its police superintendent during a speech Monday before a group of top cops. Trump’s visit to Chicago to speak before the International Association of Chiefs of Police was his first to…

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    Dara Sharif






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    October 28, 2019
  • It’s About to Get Really Real: House to Take Formal Vote Thursday on Rules of Impeachment

    It’s About to Get Really Real: House to Take Formal Vote Thursday on Rules of Impeachment

    House Democrats want to make one thing very clear to Donald Trump: The impeachment inquiry into his tenure in the Oval Office is the real deal. And, so, on Monday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that the House will take a vote “to formalize procedures” as to the rules when it comes to the probe,…

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    Dara Sharif






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    October 28, 2019
  • Trump Organization Is Thinking of Selling the Lease to Its Controversial DC Hotel

    Trump Organization Is Thinking of Selling the Lease to Its Controversial DC Hotel

    Amid criticism that Donald Trump has been wrongly profiting from his swank Washington, D.C., hotel, the Trump Organization now is reportedly thinking of selling the lease it holds on it. “People are objecting to us making so much money on the hotel, and therefore we may be willing to sell,” Trump’s son Eric, an executive…

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    Dara Sharif






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    October 25, 2019
  • Awkward! Trump Lawyer Rudy Giuliani Spills the Tea After Butt-Dialing a Reporter

    Maybe Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani needs to learn how to lock his phone. According to NBC News, Giuliani butt-dialed one of its reporters on at least two occasions, allowing the writer to overhear Trump’s hype man mouthpiece discussing how much he needs cold, hard cash and bad-mouthing the Bidens (Joe and his son,…

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    Dara Sharif






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    October 25, 2019
  • DOJ Is Reportedly Making Its Review of How Russia Probe Came to Be a Criminal Matter

    DOJ Is Reportedly Making Its Review of How Russia Probe Came to Be a Criminal Matter

    Donald Trump has long derided as some “hoax” the Mueller probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election that put Trump into the Oval Office. But, now, the Justice Department that has informally reviewing the origins of the special prosecutor’s probe has turned it into an official criminal investigation. That’s according to sources to the…

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    Dara Sharif






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    October 24, 2019
  • Voter Suppression Reportedly on Rise in States Where Increasing Numbers of Democratic-Leaning Students Head to the Polls

    College students headed to the polls in droves during the last presidential election, and with that number only expected to grow in next year’s race, Republican lawmakers have been throwing up roadblocks, especially in swing states. That’s because college students trend Democratic, according to recent polls, the New York Times reports. And attempts to suppress…

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    Dara Sharif






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    October 24, 2019
  • The Untouchables: Donald Trump’s Legal Team Argues He Could Shoot Someone and Not Be Prosecuted

    Donald Trump’s latest bid to keep his long-sought tax returns under wraps has resulted in his lawyer making a brash contention: As the occupant of the Oval Office, Trump couldn’t be prosecuted even if he really did shoot someone in the middle of New York’s famed Fifth Avenue. Trump is fighting New York prosecutors’ attempt…

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    Dara Sharif






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    October 23, 2019
  • Heartbreak: Body of 3-Year-Old Kamille ‘Cupcake’ McKinney Found in Alabama Dumpster; 2 People Charged

    Heartbreak: Body of 3-Year-Old Kamille ‘Cupcake’ McKinney Found in Alabama Dumpster; 2 People Charged

    Investigators searching for Kamille “Cupcake” McKinney—the 3-year-old abducted from a birthday party more than a week ago—found her body in a dumpster Tuesday night, and authorities are charging two people earlier identified as “persons of interest” with murder, Birmingham, Ala., police said. “Tonight our entire city is mourning,” Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin said, the Tuscaloosa…

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    Dara Sharif






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    October 22, 2019
  • Ex Dallas Cop Amber Guyger Is Set to Appeal Her Murder Conviction in the Shooting Death of Botham Jean

    Ex Dallas Cop Amber Guyger Is Set to Appeal Her Murder Conviction in the Shooting Death of Botham Jean

    Well, that didn’t take long. The former Dallas cop convicted of murder this month for fatally shooting her upstairs neighbor has filed notice that she plans to appeal the verdict. Amber Guyger was sentenced to 10 years in prison after she was convicted Oct. 1 of murder for gunning down Botham Jean, claiming she mistook…

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    Dara Sharif






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    October 22, 2019
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