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  • Ark. Ready to Execute 8 Men in 10-Day Period as Lethal-Injection Drug Set to Expire

    The state of Arkansas is moving quickly to pull off eight executions in 10 days during the month of April as it tries to beat the clock on an expiring supply of a controversial sedative used during the lethal-injection process. The state plans to carry out two executions a day on four days between April…

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  • The White House Beat Rachel Maddow to Publishing Trump’s 2005 Tax Return, but Rachel Won the Game

    Unless you turned off your phone, computer and television Tuesday night in order to enjoy some quiet time with your thoughts, you have already heard that Rachel Maddow tweeted that she would be revealing Donald Trump’s 2005 tax return courtesy of the two pages of a Form 1040 that were mailed to Daily Beast reporter…

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  • Barack Obama Is the Recipient of the 2017 JFK Profile in Courage Award

    The love for former President Barack Obama continued to flow Thursday as he was named the 2017 winner of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for carrying on the legacy of his fellow Democrat. NBC News reports that Caroline Kennedy and her son, Jack Schlossberg, will present Obama with the award during a…

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  • Mike Pence Didn’t Pardon a Wrongfully Convicted Innocent Man, so His Replacement Did

    Keith Cooper was wrongfully convicted of a crime he did not commit 20 years ago, and he patiently waited three years for then-Indiana Gov. Mike Pence to use his executive power to issue a pardon and remove the mark from his record, to no avail. On Thursday, Pence’s replacement, Republican Eric Holcomb, got the job…

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  • Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel Claims He Always Wins—but at What Cost?

    Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel spoke Monday at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and laid out his thoughts on the Democratic Party and its prospects for taking back national power again, saying that it needs to take a “chill pill” because the return to power won’t happen anytime soon. “It ain’t gonna happen in 2018,” Emanuel…

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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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  • Report: Donald Trump Hired Prostitutes to Pee In Beds He Knew the Obamas Slept In

    A person claiming to be a former British intelligence official compiled a dossier that has been circulating for weeks among elected officials, intelligence agents and journalists, making claims that the Russian government has been “cultivating, supporting and assisting” President-elect Donald Trump for years and gained compromising information about him. The dossier is a collection of…

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