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Armed Men Detained Outside Home of Texas Woman Arrested in Viral Video
Police in Fort Worth, Texas, detained and released three men armed with assault rifles Saturday outside the home of the woman who made news when a video showing a police officer antagonizing and then arresting her and her two daughters went viral. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports that police were dispatched to the location to…
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El Chapo Has His Day in Court, Pleads Not Guilty to 17 Federal Charges
El Chapo has not escaped the U.S. yet, and Friday afternoon he stood in federal court in Brooklyn, N.Y., to face charges in a case the U.S. authorities have been building for decades. The U.S. Department of Justice announced charges against Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Friday following his extradition from Mexico to the United States…
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Million Hoodies Movement for Justice Issues Inauguration Day Video Statement on Incoming Administration
Members of the Million Hoodies Movement for Justice released an Inauguration Day video statement Friday to “send a message about what’s at stake for the next four years with an administration that has promised to harm our communities.” “It is incumbent that young people find ways to get politically activated and involved to protect the…
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White Nationalist Richard Spencer Gets Punched in the Face During Trump Inauguration Protest
Richard Spencer, the self-proclaimed white nationalist and leader of the “alt-right” (a phrase he coined) movement, was punched in the face at a Trump inauguration protest Friday after denying that he was a Nazi. Spencer was speaking in front of a group of people who were asking him questions such as, “Are you a neo-Nazi?”…
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Malia Obama Will Be Interning for Hollywood Producer Harvey Weinstein
Malia Obama is doing the gap year thing right: The elder daughter of former President Barack Obama will soon start work as an intern for Hollywood superproducer Harvey Weinstein. Malia Obama, 18, who graduated from Sidwell Friends School last May, according to the Washington Post, and is set to begin undergraduate studies at Harvard University…
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Michael Slager Headed Back to Court for State, Fed Trials in Walter Scott Death
The first preliminary hearing in the state retrial of a white former North Charleston, S.C., police officer charged with the shooting death of an unarmed black motorist is scheduled for Monday, and prosecutors in his federal civil rights trial are asking that the the jury pool be limited to the local area. Michael Slager, 35,…
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Los Angeles Police Officer Convicted of Sending ‘Harmful’ Texts to Teen
A Los Angeles police officer was convicted Tuesday of distributing “harmful matter” to a teenage girl he worked with through a Los Angeles Police Department youth program, authorities said. According to the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office, Abel Montes de Oca, 32, was convicted of two misdemeanor counts: destroying evidence and distributing “harmful matter” to…
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Video Shows Fontana, Calif., Cops Fatally Shooting Legally Blind and Mentally Ill Man
Surveillance video from a convenience store shows police in Fontana, Calif., cornering and fatally shooting a legally blind and mentally ill man they say was armed with a rock and a knife. According to the Los Angeles Times, the recording of the Nov. 22, 2015, incident was made public by attorneys for the man’s family…
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El Chapo in Custody and Extradited to the US
Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, the drug lord who famously escaped a Mexican prison in July 2015, has been extradited to the United States and will stand trial in Brooklyn, N.Y., on drug-trafficking and murder conspiracy charges, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement. The Los Angeles Times reports that a U.S. official confirmed…
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Will We Be Getting Reparations From Sallie Mae-Navient?
Navient, the nation’s largest servicer of student loans, has misled borrowers for years with respect to its policies and practices, costing them millions of dollars, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday by a federal regulator. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the same agency that went after Wells Fargo and aired out all its dirty laundry,…
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