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Police Officer Who Shot and Killed Washington, DC, Motorcyclist Terrence Sterling Is Fighting to Keep His Job
It takes a certain type of gall to kill an unarmed man in a shooting that a police department internal review has already determined to be unjustified and still be determined to fight for your job. But I suppose anything is possible when you’re a white police officer, and so that is exactly what Washington,…
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Accused Parkland, Fla., School Shooter Wants to Donate Inheritance to Victims, Lawyers Say
After the shooting and killing of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the accused gunman now wants to donate his six-figure inheritance to the victims to help “heal the community.” A lawyer for accused Parkland, Fla., gunman Nikolas Cruz said that any of the money that his client receives would go to the…
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Donald Trump Is the Great Value Frank Underwood; Michael Cohen Is His Doug Stamper
Riddle me this: Why would the FBI be searching the home, office and hotel room of Donald Trump attorney Michael Cohen for all the records related to the infamous Access Hollywood tape on which Trump was heard basically admitting that he thinks it’s OK to sexually assault women? And why, as reported by the New…
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Bong-Jour: John Boehner Gets Brand-New, Now Supports Cannabis
File this under “Stories I never thought I’d be writing in my journalism career.” Former House Speaker John Boehner, a Republican from Ohio, was previously opposed to any and all types of marijuana reform when he served in the U.S. Congress. He vocally opposed marijuana legalization, having said in 2011 that he was “unalterably opposed”…
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President Signs Executive Order Mandating That Poor People Work or Lose ‘Welfare’
Without much fanfare (totally apropos, given what’s been happening in the world of the White House in the last 72 hours), President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that will force recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, Medicaid and low-income housing subsidies to find work or lose their assistance. Trump quietly signed the…
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NFL Safety Eric Reid Met With the Cincinnati Bengals and Everything Was Going Great Until They Got to the Protests
If you don’t believe that former San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick is being whiteballed by the NFL, then look no farther than Eric Reid. While there have been questions about Kaepernick’s style of play not fitting with different teams, there have been no questions about Reid’s ability to play football. In fact, the only reason…
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Why Tristan Thompson Allegedly Cheating on Khloé Kardashian Might Be Good News for the Cleveland Cavaliers
There are only a few things on which we can depend in Trump’s America: Every morning we will be greeted by increasingly stupid tweets, we will go to war, and 26-year-old Cleveland Cavaliers star Tristan Thompson will cheat on his baby mama in her third trimester. Thompson has been in a whirlwind love affair with…
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Target Agrees to $3.74 Million Settlement After Being Accused of Using Criminal-Background Checks to Keep Blacks, Hispanics Out of Jobs
Target Corp. is dishing out a hefty $3.74 million to settle a lawsuit in which it is accused of using criminal-background checks to keep thousands of black and/or Hispanic people from getting jobs. As part of the agreement, the retail giant has also agreed to review its policies for screening applicants, Reuters reports. The preliminary…
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Who Put ‘It’s OK to Be White’ Cards in Diapers at Target?
In March, Target customers in different parts of the country began finding cards emblazoned with the phrase, “It’s OK to be white” in boxes of diapers purchased from the retail giant. According to the Anti-Defamation League, the first card was found inside a box of store-brand diapers bought in Washington, D.C. The opposite side of…
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Stephon Clark’s Younger Brother Admits Mental Distress After Brother’s Death by Police
Stevante Clark, younger brother of Stephon Clark, the young man killed by Sacramento, Calif., police, recently revealed that he has sought mental health help in the wake of his brother’s untimely and unjust death. Not long after Stephon Clark, 22, was shot eight times in his grandmother’s backyard when police mistook his cellphone for a…