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Some Beneficiaries of Obamacare Still Voted for Republicans Who Are Against It
Democrats who accuse low-income Republicans of voting against their own interests may be on to something. A New York Times report notes that Republicans who became insured and benefited the most under the Affordable Care Act—dubbed Obamacare—elected Republicans to their state and federal legislatures who do not support the measure. “Arkansas, Kentucky and West Virginia—states…
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Code Switch: Black Emojis Are on the Way
Diverse emojis are finally coming our way. According to the New York Daily News, Unicode Consortium, the coders behind emojis, will introduce a skin-tone modifier to their system to allow users to change the shade of the emoji of their choice. Over the past two years, celebrities including Miley Cyrus and Tahj Mowry have voiced…
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5 Takeaways for Obama After Tuesday’s ‘Shellacking,’ Part Deux
The day after Democrats lost control of the House of Representatives in the 2010 midterms, President Barack Obama took to the podium in the White House East Room and acknowledged that he and his party had just taken a “shellacking.” So even though he declined to characterize Tuesday’s GOP Senate takeover at his Wednesday postmortem,…
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Dallas Man Arrested for Stealing 160,000 Diapers
A Dallas man has been arrested in the theft of 160,000 diapers from a charity, Captain Hope’s Kids, reports the Dallas News. Roderick Phillips, 39, was arrested on Oct. 22 for theft and evading arrest. Phillips is a former employee of the charity, which lost roughly $34,000 worth of diapers in the theft, which occurred Oct.…
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3 More Women Come Forward Against Oklahoma Cop Accused of Raping 8 Black Women
Three more women have come forward to make claims against Daniel Holtzclaw, the Oklahoma police officer charged with raping eight black women while on duty, according to News 9. Holtzclaw was arrested and charged with 26 counts of rape, sexual battery, indecent exposure and oral sodomy after women came forward in August. Now three more…
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2014 Midterms: Running Away From Obama Is What Cost Democrats
The Republican Party’s takeover of the U.S. Senate in Tuesday’s midterm election is the tip of the rather sizable iceberg that saw the GOP win governorships in the blue states of Illinois, Maryland and Massachusetts. As the losses for Democrats mounted during election night, any number of pundits questioned the Democratic Party’s Obama Avoidance Syndrome.…
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Wis. SWAT Team Kills Tiny Dog After Being Called to Settle Dispute
SWAT-team members were sent to a neighborhood in Racine, Wis., when Kim Polk called authorities after a dispute over dog feces led a neighbor to threaten to attack her with a bow and arrow and a machete, reports the New York Daily News. Once police arrived, Polk’s neighbor threatened the police, too, with with his bow…
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Watch: Polls Aren’t the Only Numbers That Tell the Obama Story
To hear the pundits tell it, the reason Democrats took a big hit in Tuesday night’s midterm elections was the sinking popularity of President Barack Obama. And certainly, he’s not riding as high in the polls as he was a few years ago. But whatever the political challenges that Obama and Democrats faced in 2014—the…
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Republicans Capture the Senate; Voters Paint the Nation Red
Political observers called it months ago, but Tuesday’s midterm elections made it official: The Republicans have captured control of the U.S. Senate. And even though this outcome was predicted, the actual numbers are making it that much more impactful. According to a CNN report, Republican candidates across the nation won seven Senate seats that were…
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