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  • Donald Trump Reportedly Likes to Get Spanked

    We may as well brace ourselves. We are going to keep getting little details about Donald Trump’s sexual predilections every single day until all the pre-nondisclosure-agreement Stormy Daniels interviews and “candid” recollections about the president have been milked dry. Prepare yourselves. This is going to be a gross and bumpy ride. We’ve already heard that…

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  • Cardi B Just Accomplished Something Not Even Beyoncé Has Done

    Cardi B accomplished something this week that no other woman—not even Beyoncé—has ever done: She currently has five hits in the top 10 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart at once. As Billboard notes, Cardi B is only the third artist to accomplish this; both Drake and Kendrick Lamar have done it before. What…

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  • The Myth of Closure in Relationships

    In our last #TheRootAfterDark Twitter chat, we discussed the differences between “baggage” and “experience” and how to tell the difference between the two. A recurring theme among the people who admitted to still carrying around baggage from previous relationships was the idea that most of them were still looking for “closure.” Closure is a funny…

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  • #NetNeutrality: States, Public-Interest Groups File Lawsuits to Stop the FCC From Killing the Open Internet

    As Democrats in the Senate work to push forward a resolution that would stop the Federal Communications Commission from killing net neutrality and ending the open and free internet for everyone, multiple lawsuits were filed Tuesday by different groups with that same goal in mind. A group of attorneys general from 21 states and the…

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  • Racist White Girl Kicked Out of University of Alabama for Her Racist Instagram Rant

    Updated Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2018, 5:30 p.m. EST: The University of Alabama is now confirming that Harley Barber is no longer enrolled at the school. UA President Stuart Bell issued the following statement, which was shared to the university’s Twitter account: In light of the racist and disturbing videos posted by one of our students…

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  • #NetNeutrality: Senate Democrats Need 1 More Member to Vote to Overturn FCC Decision

    Senate Democrats announced Tuesday that they have 50 of the 100 members of the Senate prepared to vote in favor of their Congressional Review Act resolution to overturn the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to repeal net neutrality. According to CNBC, Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) said in a statement that all 49 Democrats were in favor…

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  • Is There More to the Story of Donald Trump and Stormy Daniels?

    On Friday, news broke that Donald Trump had paid former adult-film star Stormy Daniels $130,000 in October 2016 for her silence about an alleged sexual encounter the two of them had 10 years prior in 2006. Now a new report raises questions as to whether there is more to Trump’s history with Daniels than just…

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  • Activists Who Pulled Down Confederate Statue in Durham, NC, Will Not Face Felony Charges

    Eight of the activists who participated in the toppling of a Confederate statue in front of the old courthouse in downtown Durham, N.C., will no longer face felony charges, the county district attorney said Thursday. The activists appeared before District Judge Frederick S. Battaglia at a hearing Thursday morning, the Herald-Sun reports. Their cases were…

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  • Klansman Who Helped Plot the 1964 Deaths of 3 Civil Rights Workers Dead at 92

    A former Klansman who was sentenced in 2005 to 60 years in prison for his role in the 1964 plot to abduct and kill three young civil rights workers during the Freedom Summer drive to register black voters died Thursday in a prison in Parchman, Miss. He was 92. The Mississippi Department of Corrections said…

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  • #Flint: 1,357 Days With No Clean Water; Control Over City Finances May Return to Local Government

    As of Thursday, the people of Flint, Mich., have gone 1,357 days without clean water in their pipes. While the bureaucratic wheels of resolution continue to spin slowly, a state board voted Wednesday to return control over city financial decisions back to the local government. Flint’s finances have been monitored by the state-appointed Receivership Transition…

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