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Good News For People Who Like Terrible People: President Trump Tested Negative For COVID-19
Welp, if you were waiting on news to break that President Donald Trump has come down with “that Rona,” you’ll be disappointed. According to AP News, the White House released test results Saturday night revealing that the president received negative results for COVID-19 after being tested for coronavirus on Friday. Yesterday, The Root reported that…
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Woman Named Tyronesha Laws Suing DaBaby for Allegedly Slapping Her at Tampa Bay Concert
It looks like DaBaby will be getting a much-needed spanking, legally. The burgeoning rap icon, who was involved in in a physical altercation at a Tampa Bay show last week, is now facing a lawsuit for allegedly assaulting a female concertgoer. The alleged victim is named Tyronesha Laws and is suing for battery, intentional infliction…
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Three People Who Visited Trump's Mar-a-Lago Resort Last Weekend Tested Positive For Coronavirus
Since news of the coronavirus has broken and captivated the world, causing widespread concern, President Donald Trump has gone from appearing to downplay the seriousness of the spreading virus to appearing to refuse to release intelligence reports warning that the U.S. is underprepared to handle a global pandemic to delivering a televised speech from the…
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R Kelly Indicted in New Charges and His Attorney Issues Statement Straight Out of the Sexual Assault-Apologist Playbook
At this point, I’m about ready to start trolling hoteps and by posting Harvey Weinstein articles on their social media pages with the caption, “But… but… but where’s R Kelly’s 23-year sentence at?” That would be the least that the disgraced R&B king (if R&B stood for “rapes and bribes”) deserves as charges of sexual…
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NBA Players Doing the Lord's Work Donating Funds to Relieve Arena Workers Who Lost Wages Due to Season Suspension
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to hold world-wide attention representing a strong majority of news coverage across media, it is seldom that we see good news and positive displays of humanity. So it warms the heart to see people of means reaching out to help those most vulnerable to be affected financially by the crisis…
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Congressman James Clyburn Wants Joe Biden to Choose a Black Woman as a Running Mate
“I really believe that we’ve reached a point in this country where African American women need to be rewarded for the loyalty that they’ve given to this party. So I would really be pushing for an African American female to go on the ticket.” These were the words that House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.)…
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Serena Williams Says She'll Be Spending the Next Six Weeks in Solitude Due to 'The Rona'
When news first broke about the pending pandemic that was the coronavirus, we had jokes. (To be fair, nobody asked them to name a virus after a popular Mexican beer.) But now, we’re all feeling the burden. From the NBA suspending its season to workers struggling to make decent paychecks and millions of children being…
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BBQ for Speeding Tickets? Police Department Gets Caught Offering Incentives for Cops to Write More Traffic Citations
Despite laws prohibiting police departments from instituting traffic ticket quotas and despite police officials denying that their departments participate in the practice, stories keep popping up involving departments violating the rules or, at the very least, finding loopholes and incentivizing officers to write more tickets. According to Fox5 Atlanta, in Douglassville, Ga., cops wrote 4,000…
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Louisiana Becomes 1st State to Postpone Primary as the Coronavirus Crisis Continues
Two weeks ago, few U.S. citizens would have been able to predict the coronavirus would cause “cancel culture” to take on a literal meaning. No one would have expected the NBA to announce that its 2020 season would be suspended indefinitely, that President Donald Trump would be announcing travel bans from Europe (his affinity is…