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  • Video Shows Donald Trump Having Lewd Conversation About Women in 2005 

    A 2005 video obtained by the Washington Post shows Donald Trump having a sexist, lewd conversation about women on a hot mic while riding a bus to a soap opera appearance. In the video, Trump and Billy Bush, then of Access Hollywood, are riding a bus with the show’s logo on the side to the…

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  • Chicago Police Department Proposes New Use-of-Force Policy

    Details of a new policy requiring Chicago police officers to use the least amount of force necessary and emphasizing “the sanctity of life” were released Friday by Chicago’s top cop. ABC News reports that Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson told reporters at a news conference that the draft aims to “clarify response options to officers during…

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  • Black Women Are Still More Likely to Die From Breast Cancer 

    According to a recent study (pdf), black women are more likely than white women to die from breast cancer. The study, conducted by Mark Hurlbert, chief mission officer at the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, and Bijou Hunt, an epidemiologist at the Sinai Urban Health Institute, was conducted over the last decade and analyzed breast-cancer mortality…

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  • Fired Army General Charged Nearly $3,000 in Nightclub Visits to Government Credit Card: Report

    According to the Department of Defense, the former top military aide to Defense Secretary Ashton Carter used his government credit card at gentlemen’s clubs in Korea and Italy last year, the Los Angeles Times reports. It is alleged that Army Major Gen. Ronald F. Lewis engaged in excessive drinking at the Candy Bar in Seoul,…

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  • #FreeBresha Day of Action in Support of Teen Jailed for Killing Her Abusive Father

    Updated Wednesday, Oct. 5, 8:30 p.m. EDT: The pretrial hearing for Bresha Meadows has been delayed because of “voluminous evidence being exchanged,” according to Bresha’s attorney Ian Friedman. “When we learned that Bresha was on suicide watch, we recognized the urgency of getting her released from jail,” said Mariame Kaba, a member of Survived & Punished…

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  • Damian Marley Is Turning Calif. Prison Into Pot Farm 

    Damian Marley is turning a California prison that formerly housed nonviolent drug offenders into a cannabis-cultivation facility. Marley, 38, along with his business partner Ocean Grown Extracts, will be converting the 77,000-square-foot Claremont Custody Center into a farm that will grow medicinal marijuana for state dispensaries, Billboard reports. “Many people sacrificed so much for the…

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  • Flint, Mich., Residents Hit With Bacterial Illness as Water Crisis Continues

    Residents of Flint, Mich., have spent the last year finding creative ways to avoid using the city’s contaminated water supplies in their daily lives, but now a new threat adds an additional complication to an already frustrating situation: an outbreak of shigellosis. The New York Times reports that cases of the bacterial illness, which is…

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  • LAPD Releases Surveillance Video in Carnell Snell Jr. Shooting

    The Los Angeles Police Department released surveillance video Tuesday that shows the moments before police shot and killed an 18-year-old teen in South Los Angeles on Saturday afternoon. The 45-second clip, which the LAPD posted to its YouTube channel, shows a suspect reported to be Carnell Snell Jr. in a shopping center. The young man…

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  • What Happened to Marilyn Mosby, the Champion for Justice in Baltimore?

    Baltimore resident Freddie Gray died in April 2015 as a result of injuries sustained while being improperly restrained in a police van. Protests over his death turned violent, and in the middle of the unrest, Marilyn Mosby, the Baltimore City state’s attorney, stood on the stairs of the War Memorial in downtown Maryland to announce…

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  • Calif. Adds New Mandatory Sentences for Convicted Rapists

    California Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Friday that imposes new mandatory sentences on some sexual assault offenders and expands the legal definition of rape, two issues that have been hotly debated since the case against former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner hit the national spotlight. The Los Angeles Times reports that the decision comes after heated…

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