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  • Former First Lady Barbara Bush Dead at 92

    Former first lady Barbara Bush died at her home in Houston on Tuesday following a battle with congestive heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. She was 92. A family spokesman confirmed her death to ABC News. A statement released by the office of former President George H.W. Bush, her husband, on Sunday indicated that…

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  • #NetNeutrality: Mignon Clyburn, Biggest Defender of Open Internet, Stepping Down From FCC

    Mignon Clyburn, a Democrat on the Federal Communications Commission who was one of only two people to vote in favor of keeping the rules of net neutrality in place, announced Tuesday that she would be stepping down from her position. Clyburn made her announcement at an FCC meeting, Politico reports, and she will leave her…

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  • Donald Trump Hates Jeff Sessions So Much, He Is Now in Support of Legalized Marijuana

    Donald Trump hates Jeff Sessions with a passion. Sessions thought he was going to be a Trump guy, coming out all early in support of Trump for president. He thought he was in for sure when Trump put him up for the U.S. attorney general job. He was probably like, “I’m in there!” Poor, stupid…

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  • There’s Nothing Wrong With Having Dating Preferences

    I recently went on the world’s longest first date. It was in Vegas, it lasted 48 hours and it was magnificent. He treated me like a queen and never said no to anything I asked. I’ll tell you about the date in a separate column, because it warrants its own space, but the significance of…

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  • Doing the Most for the Least: Michael Cohen, Fixer

    So, remember last week when Fox News host Sean Hannity went all wild about the Michael Cohen raids, calling them a “witch hunt” and saying that special counsel Robert Mueller was “out to get the president”? Well, as it turns out, Hannity may have had a very specific reason for his ire. In a New…

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  • NRA Admits to Taking Money From Russian Contributors

    The National Rifle Association acknowledged to Congress in writing last week that it has accepted contributions from 23 Russians—or Americans living in Russia—since 2015. In a letter to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), the NRA said it had received just over $2,500 from these people—most of which was for “routine payments” for membership dues or magazine…

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  • Dear White People Returns to Netflix for Another Season on May 4

    For those of you who have been wanting to find out what happens with Sam, Troy, Coco, Lionel, Gabe, Joelle, Reggie and their fellow students at Winchester University, your wait is almost over. Dear White People returns May 4 for its second season on Netflix. Based on the highly acclaimed 2014 film of the same…

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  • Even the Philly DA Thinks Meek Mill Should Get a New Trial, but the Judge Still Won’t Let Him Go

    Philadelphia’s newly elected district attorney, Larry Krasner, is really about that criminal-justice reform life, it would seem. His office said in open court on Monday that Meek Mill should get a new trial for his gun- and drug-charge conviction. That puts Meek one step closer to getting the freedom he has been seeking since being…

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  • Starbucks Witness: Implicit Bias Exists and White People Need to Speak Up When They See It

    When two black men were arrested at a Philadelphia Starbucks on Thursday for simply sitting there, being black and minding their business, people in the store who witnessed it were outraged, including Melissa DePino—whose video recording of the arrest went viral on social media. DePino, a 50-year-old writer who says she visits that same Starbucks…

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  • Trump Orders Retaliation Strikes Against Syria 

    On Friday evening, Donald Trump announced that there would be precision missile strikes conducted against Syria in retaliation for alleged chemical weapons attacks that occurred on April 7 in Douma. The White House called for the press pool to gather shortly after 8:30 p.m. on Friday, and the president made his announcement from the White…

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