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Over $200,000 Raised to Repair Black Miss. Church Burned, Vandalized With 'Vote Trump'
A GoFundMe campaign set up to help repair the Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church in Greenville, Miss., which was set on fire earlier this week and marked with “Vote Trump” written in graffiti, has raised $201,823 as of Friday morning, exceeding its original $10,000 goal. Some 5,755 people contributed money toward the cause. About 80 percent…
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The FBI Releases 15-Year-Old Files on Bill Clinton Pardon Less Than Week Before Vote
While the FBI has maintained that it was simply following protocol, I think we can all agree that it has a horrible sense of timing. With less than a week to go before the presidential election, the FBI has once again found itself in the middle of presidential drama after reviving a long-dead email scandal involving Hillary…
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Former AG Eric Holder Blasts FBI Director Over Clinton Email 'Mistake'
Former Attorney General Eric Holder blasted FBI Director James Comey’s handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server. “I fear he has unintentionally and negatively affected public trust in both the Justice Department and the FBI,” Holder wrote in an op-ed in the Washington Post published late Sunday. “And he…
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FBI Probing New Emails Tied to Hillary Clinton Case, 11 Days Before Presidential Election
In a shocking twist of events, the FBI announced Friday that it will continue to investigate Hillary Clinton’s emails, based on new emails discovered during an investigation into Anthony Weiner, the husband of Clinton’s top aide Huma Abedin. According to the New York Times, the emails were uncovered when an FBI investigative team was looking…
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FBI Director Rejects Claims That Blacks Are Shot More Often by Police
FBI Director James B. Comey told a gathering of police chiefs Sunday evening that Americans “actually have no idea” about how often police use force because no one has collected enough data, the Washington Post reports. Comey’s remarks come at a time when waves of protests are happening across the country in response to the…
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Police Identify Man 'Wanted' in Connection With NYC Bombing
The New York City Police Department has started circulating the image of 28-year-old Ahmad Khan Rahami, a man authorities say is wanted in connection with Saturday’s bombing in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, the Washington Post reports. According to the report, Rahami is a naturalized U.S. citizen of Afghan descent, and his last-known address was…
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FBI Director Recommends No Criminal Charges Against Hillary Clinton in Private-Email Use
FBI Director James Comey announced Tuesday that his office will not recommend that prosecutors bring charges against Hillary Clinton for mishandling classified information in emails on her private servers. “Although the Department of Justice makes final decisions on matters like this, we are expressing to Justice our view that no charges are appropriate in this…
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Woman on FBI’s Most Wanted List Captured After Killing 9-Months-Pregnant Woman
A Mississippi native on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list has been captured in North Carolina, according to a tweet from the Milwaukee FBI on Friday. Shanika S. Minor, 24, was captured in Fayetteville, N.C., on Friday morning. Minor was arrested by a Cumberland County sheriff’s deputy shortly after 2 a.m. at the Airport…
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Orlando, Fla., Shooter Identified Himself as ‘Islamic Soldier,’ Said US Should ‘Stop Bombing Syria and Iraq’
While on his rampage, Orlando, Fla., nightclub shooter Omar Mateen told 911 dispatchers that he was an “Islamic soldier” and threatened further violence by warning (falsely) that there were bombs in a car outside the club, USA Today reports. “No, you already know what I did,” Mateen said. “There is some vehicle outside that has some…
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Wife Tried to Talk Orlando, Fla., Shooter Out of Attack, May Face Charges: Report
The woman who was married to the Orlando, Fla., shooter has revealed to federal investigators that she tried to talk her husband out of the attack, NBC News reports. Noor Mateen, the wife of Omar Mateen, who ultimately died in the shooting, told FBI agents that she was with her husband when he bought ammunition and…