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  • Mom Orchestrated Slayings of Witnesses in Son’s Trial, Prosecutors Say 

    A Missouri mother is charged with arranging the killing of two teens who witnessed her son kill another boy, KMOV reports. The update in the case comes nine months after charges were originally dropped against Tyrell Davidson, the suspect in the September 2013 St. Louis killing of 16-year-old Chauncey Brown. Now Davidson’s mother, along with…

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  • Melania Trump’s Official Website Disappears Amid Questions About Her College Degree

    The official website of Melania Trump has seemingly vanished into thin air after questions recently arose about whether the site’s claim that she has a college degree is indeed a fact, People magazine reports. MelaniaTrump.com now reroutes to the Trump Organization’s website home page. In addition, the biography page does not mention Donald Trump’s wife at…

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  • Indianapolis Police Searching for Man Who Kept Woman Chained in Basement for Days

    Indianapolis Metropolitan police are searching for a man who they say kidnapped and raped a woman found chained in a basement, the Indianapolis Star reports. According to court documents, Maurice Nelson, 28, is accused of abducting and torturing the 23-year-old victim, who was held as a prisoner. A neighbor reportedly heard the woman’s screams and…

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  • Obama Presidential Library to Be Located in Jackson Park on Chicago's South Side: Report

    President Barack Obama has reportedly checked off one more item on his leaving-the-White House to-do list, having made the decision as to where the Obama presidential library will be located, the Washington Post reports. A source familiar with the decision, but who asked the Post for anonymity because it has not yet been formally announced, told…

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  • Iowa City Police Release Body-Cam Footage of Encounter With Football Player

    Remember Faith Ekakitie? The University of Iowa defensive end was playing Pokémon Go in an Iowa City, Iowa, park last week when officers came up on him and drew their guns because he supposedly fit the description of a bank robber. Ekakitie described his experience with the officers in great detail in a post that…

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  • No Charges in Case of Texas Girl Who Was Injured by Rope Around Neck on School Trip 

    The Blanco County, Texas, Sheriff’s Office has ruled that there is no evidence of a criminal act or intention to harm in the case of a black Waco girl who suffered a severe burn from a rope around her neck during a school field trip earlier this year, KHOU reports. Thus, no charges will be…

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  • Man Who Filmed Eric Garner's Death Sues NYC for $10,000,000

    Ramsey Orta, the New York City man who filmed Eric Garner’s death, recently accepted a plea deal on weapons and drug charges and is likely to spend the next four years in prison. Now, the New York Post reports, Orta is suing the city for $10 million. He says that he was arrested on trumped-up…

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  • Charges Dropped Against Remaining Officers in Freddie Gray Case 

    Prosecutors have decided to drop the charges against the remaining Baltimore police officers in connection with the 2015 death of Freddie Gray, the Associated Press reports. Of the six officers charged in the case, three were acquitted by a Baltimore judge in a bench trial, while a mistrial was declared in the trial of a fourth officer…

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  • 'Mothers of the Movement' Stand With Hillary Clinton at the DNC 

    It was an emotional moment Tuesday night when the “Mothers of the Movement” took the stage at the Democratic National Convention to speak about their children’s deaths and endorse Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. The nine mothers walked onstage amid cries of “Black lives matter!” from the crowd, the Los Angeles Times notes, as Geneva…

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  • Bill O'Reilly: Slaves Who Built the White House Were 'Well-Fed,' Had Government Lodging 

    Everybody’s talking about Michelle Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention. More specifically, one comment, referencing the White House as having been built by slaves, has raised questions and controversy (despite that being a fact) and has had several voicing their own opinions on the matter. Enter Bill O’Reilly, host of The O’Reilly Factor on…

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