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  • Seven-Year-Old Girl in U.S. Custody at Mexican Border Goes 90 Minutes Without Medical Care, Dies

    Jakelin Amei Rosmery Caal Maquin showed symptoms of dehydration and shock before she was transported from a remote area near the border to a border station. When she arrived at the border station three hours later, she had stopped breathing. After two revival attempts, Caal was pronounced dead by her father’s side. She had been…

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  • The Education Department Is Canceling $150 Million Of Student Loan Debt and Betsy DeVos Can Stay Mad

    I didn’t come here to praise Betsy DeVos. So, I won’t. Nearly 15,000 emails to former students and parents of students who attended college campuses overseen by now-defunct Corinthian Colleges and other for-profit institutions like ITT Tech were sent. Thanks to an Obama-era provision called the Automatic Closed School Discharge, everyone who received one has…

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  • 'Happy' Kodak Black Successfully Sits Through Soft-ball Interview from the Breakfast Club

    For a bunch of men intent parlaying their purported toughness and criminality into cold, hard cash, this generation’s latest wave of emcees with penchants for hitting women seem to have one thing in common: Thin skin. Wednesday, Kodak sat for an inter with HOT97’s Ebro Darden. Ahead of a pending release of his sophomore album,…

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  • Ann Coulter Wants You to Know She’s Still Trash

    Ann Coulter has seen the recent uptick in blustery right-wing pundits who could place in Seabiscuit lookalike contests. After making headlines for slamming Donald Trump’s inability to build his long-promised border wall earlier this week, she’s back to claim her throne. Speaking to the destitute man’s Megyn Kelly, Coulter, the white character from the Good…

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  • Los Angeles County to End Incarceration of Pregnant Girls

    Of Los Angeles County’s 50 incarcerated pregnant women, 37 were 17 or 18, and 43 were “crossover” youth, involved in both the county’s probation department and its foster care system. As the number of women in prisons continues to rise nationwide, the impact of imprisonment on pregnancy can vary greatly. Los Angeles County now hopes…

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  • School of Alabama Child Believed Tormented Into Suicide Disputes Family’s Account of Persistent Bullying

    Edwinna Harris, aunt of nine-year-old McKenzie Nicole Adams, the Tuscaloosa, Ala., student whose apparent suicided has been blamed on racist bullying, is promoting a GoFundMe page to establish an organization to fight bullying. The McKenzie Foundation, the page reads, “will serve as a source to stop the [bullying] nationwide.” On Facebook, she has endorsed the…

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  • Detroit Police Charge Pastor in Killing of Transgender Woman

    Thirty-five-year-old Kelly Stough was fatally shot in Detroit by former pastor Albert Weathers, the 24th killing of a transgender person in America this year. Weathers, 46, appeared in court Monday, where his bond was set at $1 million. He was arraigned on charges of open murder and the use of a firearm in the commission…

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  • Family of 9-Year-Old Says Racist Bullying Drove Her to Suicide

    Authorities in Linden, Ala. are searching for answers after the suicide of McKenzie Nicole Adams. Her family members believe racism was to blame. Adams, who loved dolls and hoped to become a scientist, was found dead at her home by her grandmother. While the official cause of death has yet to be revealed, Eddwina Harris,…

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  • Michelle Obama Secures Bag, Adds 21 Book Tour Dates

    Becoming, former-and-forever first lady Michelle Obama’s new book, continues to fly off shelves. Its 3 million copies sold in the United States and Canada alone make it the highest-selling book of the year. Her book tour is selling out stadiums. Her skin care regimen is unfuckwitable. With these facts in mind, Obama has decided to…

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  • Oscars Now Considering Host-less Show After Offering Job to Single, Solitary Straight Male

    Another day, another long-standing American institution revealing it has learned absolutely nothing. After Kevin Hart’s decision to relinquish his duties as host after coming under fire for homophobic tweets, and not even a year after the #MeToo movement exposed the depths of bigotry and sexism in Hollywood to the world, the Academy of Motion Pictures…

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