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Police Confront Robbery Suspect in Texas, Shoot Three Children
Three children, aged five, four and one years old, were taken to a Tulsa, Okla.-area hospital after a police officer fired at a robbery suspect in a pickup truck. Their injuries are considered non-life-threatening, according to WKRG. Though authorities did not immediately release the ages or conditions of the children, Olivia Hill told Texas news…
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Police Say Iraq War Vet Targeted Assumed Muslims in Vehicular Attack
34-year-old Isaiah Joel Peoples plowed through a crowded street in Sunnyvale, Calif. on Tuesday, striking and injuring eight before crashing into a tree. Though no one was killed in the crash, the injured range in age from 9 to 52 years old. Police say the Iraq War veteran intentionally ran down the group of pedestrians…
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Shooter Kills 1, Injures 3 at Synagogue in Poway, Calif., Mayor Calls Incident ‘Hate Crime’ [Update]
Six months to the day an active shooter claimed 11 lives at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, 19-year old John Earnest has been detained by police in Poway, Calif., after a shooting at a synagogue has left one woman dead and three other people injured according to reports. Earnest drew inspiration from the…
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Oliver North Out As NRA President After Wayne LaPierre Exposes Alleged Threats
If the NRA were smart, it would turn its internal turmoil into a reality television show for its NRA TV platform. The upheaval at the top of the association is fit for a soap opera. Saturday, at the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting in Indianapolis, NRA President and key figure in the Iran-Contra affair Oliver…
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Connecticut Police Open Fire on Black Couple Singing Love Song to Each Other
On Tuesday, April 16, Stephanie Washington, 22, and Paul Witherspoon III, 21, were sitting in their car enjoying each other’s company, kissing and singing along to “Nothing In This World” by R&B Singers Avant and Keke Wyatt. Moments later, police opened fire on their vehicle without warning or provocation. Now, residents of the city of…
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Omarosa Still Talks to White House Staffers, Wants Anyone But Trump in 2020
It seems reality television star and former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault just can’t stay away. According to the New York Daily News, the 45-year-old reality star who told all in her book, “Unhinged: An Insider’s Account of the Trump White House,” which is conveniently out in paperback this week, Manigault still keeps in touch…
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Texas Couple Who Held Girl as a 'Slave' for 16 Years Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison
Twenty years ago, Texas couple Mohamed Toure and Denise Cros-Toure found a young girl from their native Guinea to care for their youngest son. In January of 2000, happy with her work, they flew her to their family residence in Southlake, Texas, to continue her work. She did not speak English, and the couple did…
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Osundairo Brothers File Defamation Lawsuit Against Jussie Smollett's Legal Team
In the case with more twists than a YouTube tutorial, Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo, the two personal trainers implicated in the case of Empire star Jussie Smollett, have filed suit against Smollett’s representation for defamation, according to the Chicago Tribune. According to their suit, the Osundairo brothers, who told investigators that Smollett paid them to…
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26-Year-Old Influencer Faces 20 Years for Hiring Cousin to Break into Domain Owner's Home
Rossi Lorathio Adams II, the 26-year-old founder of media company State Snaps, faces up to two decades in prison for hiring an intruder to break into a house in Cedar Rapids, Iowa to force the transfer of an internet domain at gunpoint, according to CNN. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Northern District…
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Congress Considering Making Pell Grants Available to Inmates, Reversing Decades-Long Ban
With droves of research suggesting education is one of the most effective tools to rehabilitate those currently serving sentences behind bars, Congress is trying to do something to make education more available to inmates. According to NPR, The Restoring Education and Learning Act, a bipartisan bill in Congress would allow incarcerated people to use federal…
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