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New Jersey Man Crashes Car Into River, Leaves Girlfriend to Drown: Report
A New Jersey man has been charged in the death of his girlfriend after allegedly driving his car into the icy Delaware River and leaving her to drown in the passenger seat as he fled the scene of the accident Sunday. According to Burlington County, N.J., Prosecutor Scott Coffina and Burlington City Police Chief Alan…
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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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Dear Donald Trump: Black People Don’t Like Your Ass
Your president loves to get on the internet and brag about stuff he hasn’t actually accomplished. He is so abhorrently clueless, he doesn’t even realize how obvious it is to the American people when he is making things up and talking out of his ass. Such was the case early Tuesday morning when Donald Trump…
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Baggage vs. Experience: What Do You Take With You and What Do You Leave Behind?
On a recent The Root After Dark Twitter chat, I asked people to tell me how quickly they fall for people and how soon after that they reveal their feelings. The responses were wide and varied, but there was a recurring theme: A lot of people said that even if they felt something right away,…
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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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Teenage Boys Who Sexually Assaulted Teen Girl on Facebook Live Given 5 Years’ Probation
Two teenage boys in Chicago who sexually assaulted a teenage girl and broadcast it on Facebook Live in March 2017 were sentenced Wednesday to five years of probation and ordered to register as sexual offenders. The Chicago Tribune reports that Cook County Juvenile Division Judge Patricia Mendoza had already indicated she would sentence the teens…
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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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