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  • Check the Facts: Increasing Our Media Literacy in the Age of Fake News

    Fake news has been a frequently discussed topic throughout this year’s presidential election. It has been cited in some cases as having had an influence on the election, and in other cases, it has led to real-life consequences, with people purportedly duped by fake-news reports acting on the false information contained in them. Take, for…

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  • Report: 96 Percent of Flint, Mich., Homes Tested Below Federal Lead Threshold

    A report from the state of Michigan says that more than 96 percent of the water samples tested in high-risk homes in the city of Flint in November were below the federal lead threshold of 15 parts per billion, providing evidence of improvements in the system. The results were announced Friday by the Michigan Department…

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  • Ala. Inmate Executed by Lethal Injection After US Supreme Court Denies Stay

    An Alabama inmate was executed Thursday night after the U.S. Supreme Court deadlocked on a stay of execution. Robert Bert Smith Jr. was executed at the Holman Correctional Facility by lethal injection. AL.com reports that during the 34-minute execution, Smith heaved and coughed for about 13 minutes and underwent two consciousness tests to make sure…

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  • Victoria’s Secret Employee Fired After Making Black Customers Leave Ala. Store

    Victoria’s Secret said Thursday that an employee who forced all black customers to leave an Alabama store after a shoplifting incident Wednesday is no longer with the company. Kimberly N. Houzah, a traveling nurse who says she is a frequent customer at Victoria’s Secret, recorded an 11-minute Facebook Live video as the incident happened at…

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  • Dylann Roof Explains Charleston, SC, Church Shooting in Videotaped Confession

    Jurors in the trial of Dylann Roof on Friday got to hear him explain in his own words the motive for the shooting that left nine black churchgoers dead last year. Roof, now 22, was arrested in Shelby, N.C., the morning after the June 2015 shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston,…

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  • Navy Admiral Takes Dig at Kaepernick During Pearl Harbor Anniversary Speech

    During a speech commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Wednesday, a Navy admiral took a dig at Colin Kaepernick and his national anthem protest. Adm. Harry B. Harris Jr., commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, was addressing a crowd of World War II veterans and survivors of the battle…

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  • Los Angeles City Attorney Sues Macy’s, Kohl’s, J.C. Penney, Sears for Pricing Scam

    Four major retailers are named in a lawsuit brought by the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office on Thursday over alleged deceptive advertising that duped customers into thinking that they were saving money. Macy’s, Kohl’s, J.C. Penney and Sears are the retailers accused of falsely advertising high regular prices on merchandise that was never actually for…

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  • Felony Charge Dropped for Jury Foreman as He Served on Michael Slager Trial 

    The lone black juror who also served as foreman during the Michael Slager trial had a pending felony charge against him that was mysteriously dropped by prosecutors during the Slager trial. Dorsey Montgomery, 34, was indicted last year on the charge of breach of trust with fraudulent intent, which carries a sentence of up to…

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  • 1st American Man to Orbit Earth and Former US Sen. John Glenn Dead at 95 

    Astronaut and former U.S. Sen. John Glenn, who in 1962 became the first American to orbit Earth, died Thursday at the age of 95. Glenn was surrounded by his family and his wife of 73 years, Annie, when he passed away at Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus, the Columbus Dispatch reports. Glenn was…

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  • Report: Law Enforcement Receives Bomb Threat for Los Angeles Subway Station

    Federal and local law enforcement in Los Angeles ramped up security across the city’s massive transit system after authorities received an overseas tip Monday about an imminent bombing at the Metro Red Line’s Universal City station. According to Deirdre Fike, the assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles office, an anonymous man warned…

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