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Donna Brazile Parses Words in Her Denial of Email Leaks
Updated Sunday, March 19, 2017, 11:30 a.m. EDT: Donna Brazile, in an exclusive interview with Richard Prince, who pens the Journal-isms blog on The Root, flatly denies ever giving questions to the Hillary Clinton campaign during the 2016 presidential election. However, based on Brazile’s own essay in Time magazine, this seems to some as if she…
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Calif. Police Fatally Shoot Pregnant 16-Year-Old Girl During Robbery Investigation
Fremont, Calif., police fatally shot a pregnant 16-year-old girl who was a passenger in a stolen vehicle linked to a series of robberies, authorities say. The girl, identified as Elena Mondragon by family members, was in her first trimester of pregnancy, according to Sgt. Ryan Cantrell, spokesman for the Hayward (Calif.) Police Department, which is…
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Suspect in Hit-and-Run Crash That Killed 5-Year-Old South L.A. Boy Surrenders to Police
The 19-year-old man suspected of killing 5-year-old Ronald O’Neal in a hit-and-run crash late Tuesday afternoon in South Los Angeles turned himself in to police Wednesday. The Los Angeles Times reports that Homer Watford walked into the LAPD’s 77th Street Station flanked by his family and told the desk officer that he was driving the…
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Fla. Governor Removes Prosecutor From Markeith Loyd Case After She Says She Won’t Pursue Death Penalty
Florida Gov. Rick Scott removed State Attorney Aramis Ayala from the case of accused cop killer Markeith Loyd on Thursday after she announced that she would not pursue the death penalty in this case or any other case she handles during her tenure. The Orlando Sentinel reports that Scott issued an executive order giving the…
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Trump Administration Will Appeal Rulings That Blocked Revised Travel Ban ‘Soon’
Because his beloved Muslim travel ban is obviously the hill that President Donald Trump wants to die on, White House press secretary Sean Spicer confirmed Thursday that the administration plans to appeal the rulings from two federal judges that have temporarily blocked the revised travel ban. As previously reported on The Root, a federal judge…
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ICE Agents Are Showing Up at Courthouses to Arrest Undocumented Immigrants
Prosecutors and other attorneys are outraged over a new tactic U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have been using to catch and arrest undocumented immigrants: showing up at courthouses where the immigrants are scheduled to appear as witnesses. Attorneys are worried that the practice will discourage undocumented immigrants from appearing in court to testify as…
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Former L.A. County Sheriff Found Guilty of Obstruction of Justice, Lying to Federal Investigators
Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca was found guilty Wednesday of obstructing a federal investigation into allegations of abuse in the county jail system and then lying to investigators to cover up his interference. The Los Angeles Times reports that the jury reached their verdict on the second day of deliberations, and Baca, who…
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Michelle Obama’s Program for Healthy School Lunches Is Target of Lobbying Group Seeking to Change Nutrition Standards
A key lobbying group is proposing changes that would reduce federal nutritional standards that former first lady Michelle Obama implemented with the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. The School Nutrition Association released its Federal Nutrition Standards recommendations in early March, and Newsweek reports that it is asking the Department of Agriculture to allow more flexibility in…
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#Flint: Donald Trump to Meet With Mayor Karen Weaver to Discuss Water Crisis
It has been more than 1,000 days since the city of Flint, Mich., had clean water, and President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with Flint Mayor Karen Weaver late Wednesday to discuss the city’s ongoing water crisis. NBC News reports that Weaver has “vociferously criticized state and federal officials lack of response during the…
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Federal Judge in Hawaii Blocks Trump’s Revised Travel Ban
President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban, which barred the issuance of new visas to citizens of six Muslim-majority countries and suspended the admission of new refugees into the United States, was blocked by a federal judge in Hawaii on Wednesday. The executive order, which was to have taken effect Thursday, was blocked nationwide by U.S.…
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