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President Obama Grants Another 98 Commutations for October
President Barack Obama made a commitment to use his clemency authority through the remainder of his time in office, and on Thursday he honored that commitment by granting another 98 commutations. Combined with the 102 commutations he granted at the beginning of October, that brings his total for the month to 200, and his total…
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#CoatSwitching Is Trending Nationally on Twitter, and This Is Why
As a native and current resident of Los Angeles, I have no idea what #CoatSwitching is. I don’t even own a coat. I have a nice, warm hoodie and a cute sweater collection, and that’s about it. I do, however, know what code-switching is. I am a code-switching master. I can go from that Valley…
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New Prince Album Coming in November
It has been exactly seven months since the world lost the Purple One, otherwise known as Prince. In memoriam, his music, both classic and unreleased, is being repackaged and reissued to a nation of fans still in disbelief. According to the Los Angeles Times, Warner Bros. and NPG Records have announced a 2017 release of…
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Report: Student Loan Debt Up 4 Percent
Undergraduate students are leaving school with an average of $30,000 in student loan debt, a new study shows. Consumerist reports that the latest annual student debt survey from the Institute for College Access & Success found that nearly 7 out of 10 seniors graduating from four-year public and nonprofit colleges in 2015 owed an average…
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Facial-Recognition Technology Affects African Americans More Often
A Georgetown University think tank and the American Civil Liberties Union, along with 52 other civil liberties organizations, are urging the U.S. Department of Justice to look into the way federal, state and local law-enforcement agencies use face-recognition technology, which they say is having a “disparate impact on communities of color.” On Tuesday the Georgetown…
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2 Inmates Have Died in ‘Preventable Deaths’ at Striking Prisons
Two prison inmates have died at two separate facilities where inmates were participating in a national prison strike, and organizers say the deaths were preventable. Charles Lee Johnson died Oct. 10 at Kinross Correctional Facility in Kincheloe, Mich., and his death is being investigated by police, BuzzFeed News reports. Last month, 400 Kinross inmates took…
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Melania Trump: Donald Was ‘Egged on’ to Say ‘Dirty and Bad Stuff’
Melania Trump says she has never heard her husband use the kind of language he is heard using in a 2005 video, and she questions the integrity of the women who have come forward to accuse him of sexual misconduct. “I believe my husband. I believe my husband,” she said in an interview with CNN’s…
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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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US to Hand Over Control of the Internet ‘Address Book’ to ICANN
A tiny branch of the U.S. Commerce Department is preparing to hand over control of the Internet’s “address book”—the highest level of the Domain Naming System, or DNS—to the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers, a Los Angeles-based international nonprofit, effective Oct. 1, Ars Technica reports. Republican lawmakers have tried to block the move,…
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Congress Adjourns for the Election but Still Has Lots of Work to Do
After approving a continuing resolution that funds the federal government through Dec. 9, the 114th Congress adjourned Thursday for the election, leaving a lot of unresolved issues on the table. The must-pass spending bill—which prevented a government shutdown, provides funds to address the Zika crisis, and gives money to flood victims in Louisiana and other…
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