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Family Outraged After Video, Photos of Chicago Stabbing Victim Posted Online
A grieving Chicago family is outraged after graphic images and video showing their loved one being stabbed to death on a Chicago Red Line train Thursday were posted online, CBS Chicago reports. “My sister was beautiful, gifted young lady. She didn’t deserve to go the way she did,” Lorel Hampton, the victim’s sister, told the…
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Red Cross Apologizes After 'Super Racist' Pool-Safety Poster
The American Red Cross is learning that a little revision goes a long way after a signboard about swim-safety guidelines came under fire for its “racist” message, prompting an apology from the Red Cross, NBC News reports. The backlash started after a photo of a pool-safety poster in Fort Morgan, Colo., started circulating on social…
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Supreme Court Strikes Down Abortion Restrictions in Texas
The Supreme Court of the United States has struck down a restrictive Texas law that required clinics that provide abortions to have surgical facilities and doctors with admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, NPR reports, ruling the restrictions unconstitutional. In a 5-3 decision in the case, Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, the court overturned a decision made…
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Multiple People Stabbed at Neo-Nazi Event Near Calif. State Capitol in Sacramento
At least seven people were stabbed after neo-Nazis and counterdemonstrators clashed at a rally at the state Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Sunday, the Los Angeles Times reports. According to the report, five people, some of whom were critically injured, were taken to local hospitals, the Sacramento Fire Department’s public information officer, Chris Harvey, told the Times.…
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Chicago Woman Stabbed to Death on CTA Red Line
Police have taken into custody a person of interest after the fatal stabbing of a woman on a Chicago Transit Authority Red Line train on the South Side, WLS reports. The still-unidentified woman was stabbed in the neck around 12:30 p.m. Thursday and was pronounced dead at the scene. Passengers who witnessed the gruesome attack…
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Grand Jury Declines to Indict Texas Cop Who Slammed Teen Girl to Ground at Pool Party
A Texas grand jury declined to indict a McKinney, Texas, police officer who was seen on video slamming a teenage girl to the ground outside a pool party last year, WFAA reports. Now-former Police Cpl. Eric Casebolt was thrust into the spotlight in June 2015 after seven minutes of video showed the officer aggressively tossing…
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Supreme Court Deadlocks on Obama Immigration Plan
The Supreme Court was split down the middle in its decision on President Barack Obama’s immigration program. The deadlock deals a hard blow to what the president had hoped would become a part of his legacy, and leaves millions of undocumented immigrants unprotected, the New York Times reports. The 4-4 deadlock leaves in place the…
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Baltimore Police Officer Caesar Goodson Jr. Found Not Guilty of 2nd-Degree Murder in Freddie Gray Case
Baltimore Police Officer Caesar Goodson Jr., who faced the most serious charge of all six officers indicted for the death of Freddie Gray in April 2015, was found not guilty by a judge Thursday, WBAL-TV reports. Goodson was the only officer charged with depraved-heart murder, a second-degree felony that carries a sentence of up to 30…
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Supreme Court Upholds Affirmative Action Program at University of Texas
The Supreme Court of the United States has upheld the University of Texas’ affirmative action program, which helps minority students get admitted to the university, Politico reports. In a 4-3 decision, the court ruled that “the race-conscious admissions program in use at the time of petitioner’s application is lawful under the Equal Protection Clause,” NPR notes. It was the second…
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Viral Video of Wis. Mall Arrest of Teen Sparks Protests, Internal Review
Family and friends of an 18-year-old Wisconsin woman are asking that charges against her be dropped since video of her controversial arrest went viral, WKOW reports. Genele Laird, 18, is facing charges of disorderly conduct while armed, resisting police (causing injury), battery to a police officer and discharging bodily fluids after an incident that occurred at…
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