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  • Stormy Daniels’ Lawyer: Some Allegations Occurred During Trump Presidency 

    Stormy Daniels’ lawyer told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Friday that some of the allegations the porn star is making against President Donald Trump took place during his time at the White House. Michael Avenatti declined to elaborate on the details, however. “Is there anything in the litany of accusations—you would call them facts —that surround…

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  • Aaron Hernandez Struggled With Being Gay: Report

    Aaron Hernandez was gay and struggled with his sexuality, according to people close to him. In an Oxygen documentary, Aaron Hernandez Uncovered, his lawyer George Leontire, who is gay and was a member of Hernandez’s defense team, said that Hernandez spoke at length about his sexuality and was conflicted about it. “This man clearly was…

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  • Russia Is Pretending to Have a Presidential Election

    If you haven’t heard, there’s an election in Russia and President Vladimir Putin has already won. Well, Putin hasn’t technically won yet, but he’s going to win, just like he’s won every other sham election during his reign. The results, which will show him winning by a landslide, are not as much the story as…

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  • Russia Expels 23 British Diplomats in Tit for Tat Over Spy Poisoning 

    In response to the United Kingdom’s decision to expel 23 Russian diplomats, Russia will return the favor by kicking 23 British diplomats out of the country, the BBC reports. In addition, both the U.K. consulate and the British Council, which promotes cultural ties between the two countries, in St. Petersburg, Russia, will close. British Prime…

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  • Felix Sater Claims Trump Organization Pursued Deal With Sanctioned Bank During 2016 Election

    Longtime Donald Trump associate Felix Sater told Chris Hayes on his MSNBC show Friday that he was trying to secure a real estate deal during the 2016 campaign to build “Trump Tower Moscow” with funding from VTB Bank, which is currently under U.S. sanctions. “I had a local developer there [in Russia], and I had…

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  • Moms Took Kids to Mosque to Broadcast Islamophobic Rant on Facebook Live 

    Two Arizona mothers live-streamed themselves inside a Tempe, Ariz., mosque yelling Islamophobic statements in front of their children, according to CNN. In the March 4 Facebook Live video, Tahnee Gonzales and Elizabeth Dauenhauer are inside the Islamic Community Center of Tempe claiming to expose “Shariah law in America” and “the illegal invasion of Muslims.” They…

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  • A Word About Louis Farrakhan and Tamika Mallory

    Women’s March Co-President Tamika Mallory’s public image has been taking a drumming all week since news broke of her attendance at the Nation of Islam’s annual Saviour’s Day, during which Minister Louis Farrakhan delivered a speech with anti-Semitic commentary. The speech was delivered at the end of February, but Twitter went ablaze last weekend after…

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  • ‘Patriotic’ Trump Supporter Finds Out She Was Tricked by Russian Trolls and Her Reaction Is Hilarious

    Florine Gruen Goldfarb loves America. She is a real, down-home patriot. So much so that she unwittingly promoted Russian-coordinated events on Facebook in support of Donald Trump. Goldfarb, who runs the Team Trump Broward County Facebook page, was one of the 53 percent of white women who backed Trump in 2016 and likely didn’t need…

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  • Can We Stop Blaming Russian Bots for White People’s Racism, Please?!

    Special prosecutor Robert Mueller on Friday dropped a 37-page indictment charging 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities with election fraud. The entire indictment focused on how the charged parties used social media to organize pro-Donald Trump and anti-Hillary Clinton rallies and took on fake social media profiles, especially on Twitter and Facebook. Much of…

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  • Russia Is Boring 

    I never thought I’d say this, but I am tired of hearing about Russia. That’s hard for me to admit, given that I’ve devoted my entire graduate education and more than four years of my life—so far—to living in Russia and other former USSR republics. But the news cycle that seems to find Russia under…

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Terrell Jermaine Starr is a senior reporter at The Root. He is currently writing a book proposal that analyzes US-Russia relations from a black perspective.


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