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Report: Hate Groups in the US Have Increased for 2nd Consecutive Year
The number of hate groups in the United States rose for the second year in a row in 2016, a result of the radical right being energized by the candidacy of Donald Trump, according to a report released Wednesday by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Anti-Muslim hate groups showed the most dramatic growth, nearly tripling…
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Chicago Police Say Suspect Shot at Rival Gang Members, Killed Takiya Holmes Instead
Police and prosecutors in Chicago say that Antwan C. Jones was walking down the street Saturday evening when he saw three rival gang members selling weed in his gang’s territory. Jones reportedly shot at them from across the street, but instead of hitting his targets, he hit 11-year-old Takiya Holmes in the right temple as…
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ACLU of Oregon Recommends Changes to Portland Police Protest Policy
The American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon sent a letter to the Portland Police Bureau on Wednesday addressing concerns about the bureau’s current crowd-control policies when responding to protests. In the letter (pdf) addressed to Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and Portland Police Bureau Chief Michael Marshman, the ACLU notes that the Crowd Control Workgroup of…
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Black 2nd-Graders at L.A. Elementary School Get Math Homework With a Word Problem About Slavery
Parents of students at Windsor Hills Elementary School in Los Angeles are outraged after second-graders at the school received a math homework assignment last week that contained a word problem with racial undertones. NBC News reports that students received the following word problem as part of their math homework: The master needed 192 slaves to…
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Chicago School Board Sues State of Ill. Over ‘Separate and Unequal Funding’
The Chicago school board sued Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner, a Republican, and the Illinois State Board of Education Tuesday, alleging that the state employs “separate and unequal systems of funding for public education in Illinois.” The lawsuit was filed in the Cook County Chancery Division on behalf of five Chicago Public Schools families, and the…
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Secret Service Director Steps Down After a Little Over 3 Weeks Working for Trump
Secret Service Director Joseph P. Clancy is a career Secret Service agent and former presidential-detail leader who had left the agency for the private sector but was called by then-President Barack Obama in 2014 to come back to work as director amid a string of security breaches and employee misconduct. Now, after just three weeks…
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Michelle and Barack Obama Send Each Other the Cutest Valentine’s Day Tweets Ever
Just because I am single on Valentine’s Day (and single in general) doesn’t mean I cannot appreciate the spectacle of true love when it presents itself in front of me in the form of Michelle LaVaughn Robinson and Barack Hussein Obama, the most famous winners of the cutest-couple contest that you have ever seen in…
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National Security Adviser Michael Flynn Resigns After Revelation He Lied About Talks With Russian Ambassador
National security adviser Michael Flynn resigned Monday night after it was revealed he lied to Vice President Mike Pence and other top White House officials about conversations he had with the Russian ambassador to the United States. From the New York Times: Mr. Flynn, who served in the job for less than a month, stepped…
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2 Young Girls Among 27 People Shot in Chicago This Weekend
Gun violence in Chicago continues to outpace last year’s numbers as 27 people, including two young girls, were shot this past weekend. The Chicago Tribune reports that the girls, 11 and 12, remained in critical condition and on life support Monday after being shot in separate South Side attacks 30 minutes and 4 miles apart…
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ACLU: Tech Firms Need to Help Lobby for Surveillance Reform in Light of Trump Presidency
The American Civil Liberties Union is asking tech companies to help push for surveillance reform in the U.S., warning that there is an added urgency now that newly elected President Donald Trump has demonstrated that he is hostile to the privacy of foreign travelers. From TechCrunch: Late last week one of the ACLU’s staff attorneys…
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