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  • Trump Strategist Steve Bannon Gives Media Advice He Should Be Giving to Orange Foolius

    Steve Bannon, chief strategist to President Donald Trump who also served as his campaign manager for the 2016 presidential election, gave a rare interview to the New York Times in which he continued his employer’s attacks on the media and described it as the “opposition party” to the current administration. “The media should be embarrassed…

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  • L.A. County District Attorney Target of Recall Effort After Not Filing Charges in Ezell Ford Killing

    Civil rights activists announced Monday that they will begin a recall effort against Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey after she failed to bring charges against the two police officers responsible for the shooting death of Ezell Ford. The Los Angeles Times reports that author and activist Earl Ofari Hutchinson said at a Los…

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  • Trump Is Going to Build His Damn Wall, and Other Questionable Executive Orders

    President (ugh) Trump continued his bull-in-a-china-shop routine Wednesday by signing a few questionable executive orders, including one to build a border wall with Mexico, one to cut off funds to cities that do not report undocumented immigrants, and one that could restart an interrogation program that was dismantled in 2009 after being condemned as torture.…

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  • The United States Is No Longer a Full Democracy

    The Economist Intelligence Unit has demoted the United States from a full democracy to a flawed democracy for the first time ever. Each year, EIU’s Democracy Index provides a snapshot of global democracy by scoring countries in five categories: electoral process and pluralism; civil liberties; the functioning of government; political participation; and political culture, CNBC…

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  • LAPD Officers Who Shot and Killed Ezell Ford Will Not Face Charges

    The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday that it will not be filing charges against the two police officers involved in the 2014 shooting death of Ezell Ford. In a 28-page report (pdf) with most of the officers’ statements redacted, the Justice System Integrity Division of the district attorney’s office determined that Officers…

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  • Flint, Mich., Left Wondering How Trump’s EPA Freeze Will Impact the $100,000,000 It Was Promised in Grant Aid 

    State officials in Michigan are wondering how the Trump administration’s freeze on Environmental Protection Agency grants and contracts will affect the $100 million in funds already allocated for the Flint water crisis. As previously reported on The Root, within hours of President Donald Trump’s swearing-in Friday, officials at the Environmental Protection Agency were barred from…

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  • Trump Administration Tells EPA to Freeze All Contracts, Grants; Orders Media Blackout

    Within hours of President Donald Trump’s swearing-in Friday, officials at the Environmental Protection Agency were barred from any external communications and instructed to freeze all contracts and grants. The Associated Press has reviewed emails sent to EPA staff since Friday’s inauguration that detail the specific prohibitions on news releases, blog updates or posts to the…

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  • Ex-Gang Member Who Had His Sentence Commuted by Obama ‘Executed’ in Mich.

    A man who was recently released from prison after former President Barack Obama commuted his sentence was killed Monday night when two masked gunmen entered a federal halfway house in Saginaw, Mich., and shot him execution style, police say. Demarlon C. Thomas, 31, was a former member of Saginaw’s Sunny Side Gang who had his…

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  • 2 Republican Senators Propose Giving States Option to Keep Obamacare

    On Monday, two Senate Republicans said that U.S. states should be allowed to stay in the Obamacare medical-insurance program if they choose to. Donald Trump and congressional Republicans made campaign promises to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, and since the new session of Congress started and Trump became president, they have…

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  • Lawsuit by Ethics Experts Claims Trump’s Overseas Interests Violate Constitution

    A lawsuit was filed in federal court Monday by a team of ethics experts and legal scholars alleging that President Donald Trump’s overseas businesses violate the Constitution’s emoluments clause, which prohibits presidents from taking money from foreign governments. NPR reports that the group says it’s asking the court “to stop Trump from violating the Constitution…

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