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A Black Woman Firing a Rifle Was Featured in a Russian-Bought Facebook Ad Meant to Create Further Racial Divide: Report
Congressional investigators learned Monday that one of the Russian-bought advertisements on Facebook featured a picture of a black woman armed with a rifle and pulling the trigger without having a bullet in the chamber. People familiar with the investigation into Russian interference in U.S. political and civic affairs told the Washington Post that while investigators…
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Shooter Opens Fire at Country Music Festival on Las Vegas Strip: More Than 58 Dead, Including Suspect
Updated Monday, Oct. 2, 2017, 12:15 p.m. EDT: Police have confirmed that 58 people are dead and more than 515 are injured in what is being called the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. Sixty-four-year-old Stephen Paddock, whom police have identified as the shooter, opened fire from two windows on the 32nd floor of the…
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Murder Conviction Overturned After Court Determines Teen Was Coerced by LAPD
A teenager’s murder conviction was overturned Friday by a federal appeals court, which ruled that the Los Angeles Police Department violated the teen’s rights by denying his request for a lawyer and forcing him into a confession. The Los Angeles Times reports that Jessie Rodriguez was 14 years old in 2005 when the LAPD questioned…
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Inmates in La. Jail Will Lose in-Person Visits; Friends and Family Will Have to Pay for Video Visitation
Face-to-face visits are something many inmates serving time look forward to. Being able to see friends and family members in person, to laugh and enjoy conversations together, is a way to make long sentences seem shorter. It helps families stay bonded, helps children know family members who may otherwise be absent from their lives and…
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Couldn’t Pay the Cost, Can’t Be the Boss: The Tom Price Story
Previously, on White House Apprentice, the head of the Department of Health and Human Services got caught with his hand in the cookie jar. Instead of doing whatever it is that the secretary of health and human services is actually supposed to do in a Trump administration, Tom Price was out here making it rain…
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Your President Is a Gotdamn Idiot, and This Video Clip Proves It Once and for All
People crack jokes about the current president daily. We discuss his lack of finesse and talk about his questionable degree of intelligence and all the idiotic things he says via his Twitter account—the access to which, shockingly, no one has taken from him yet. We seriously thought that George W. Bush was the worst president…
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But His Emails: Jared Kushner Failed to Disclose Use of His Personal Email Account to Senate Intelligence Committee
When he had his closed interview with the Senate Intelligence Committee, Jared Kushner—White House senior adviser and husband of Ivanka Trump—did not disclose that he had used a personal email account to conduct official business, officials say. According to CNN, the chair and vice chair of the committee were not pleased that they had to…
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Gov. Rick Snyder Backs Mich. State Police Director Who Called Protesting Athletes ‘Degenerates’
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has said that he has no plans to fire the Michigan State Police director who came under fire this week after making a post on Facebook criticizing protesting NFL players and calling them “millionaire ingrates who hate America and disrespect our armed forces and veterans.” Col. Kriste Kibbey Etue made the…
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Judge Rules Black Lives Matter Is a Movement That Cannot Be Sued, Dismisses Cop’s Lawsuit Against DeRay Mckesson
The Baton Rouge, La., police officer who anonymously sued both Black Lives Matter and activist DeRay Mckesson will have to seek his legal revenge elsewhere. A federal judge ruled Thursday that Black Lives Matter is a social movement not unlike the civil rights movement or the Tea Party, and therefore cannot be sued. The police…
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Sports Illustrated Whitesplains Why It Left Colin Kaepernick Off ‘Sports United’ Cover
Imagine being a major sports magazine doing a cover story on the players and team leaders who spoke up and spoke out on the issues of race and inequality, and the right to freedom of personal expression—just to leave out the player who is the reason these discussions are being had in the first place.…
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