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Cornell University Student Facing Hate Crime Charges in Racist Attack Could Be Deported if Convicted [Updated]
Updated: Wednesday, June 20, 2018, 6:02 p.m.: Greenwood pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in April. He admitted to using the racial slur but denied being involved in the physical attack. The original charges, including a charge of attempted assault as a hate crime, were dropped due to a “level of doubt.” Earlier: A Canadian citizen…
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Kansas Man Who Screamed ‘Get Out of My Country’ Before Killing Indian National Pleads Guilty to Multiple Charges, Faces Life in Prison
Adam Purinton, the 52-year-old Kansas man who opened fire in a local bar last year, killing one Indian national and injuring two other people in an incident that sparked outrage across the globe, has pleaded guilty to his crimes. According to the Washington Post, on Tuesday, Purinton pleaded guilty to one count of premeditated first-degree…
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Justice Department Sues Governor, Attorney General and State of California Over Immigration
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit Tuesday evening against the state of California, its governor and its attorney general over “sanctuary” laws it alleges violate the Constitution and are friendly to undocumented immigrants. The federal government filed its case just after 9 p.m. EST in the state capital of Sacramento. According to the…
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If Donald Trump Weren’t President, He Wouldn’t Have White House Security Clearance Either
What does it say about this administration when the majority of its top-level staff—up to and including the president himself—cannot or could not pass security-clearance background checks? Last month, CNN reported that nearly a year into Donald Trump’s presidency, at least 100 senior-level White House staffers—including Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and the now departed Rob…
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Kellyanne Conway Violated Federal Ethics Rules Twice Last Year: Report
A federal ethics agency has determined that Kellyanne Conway broke the law twice last year while advocating for the election of Republican Roy Moore in the U.S. Senate race in Alabama. The Office of Special Counsel found that Conway violated the Hatch Act while giving live television interviews from the White House lawn, NPR reports.…
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The Richest Black People in the World, Ranked
Every year Forbes releases its annual ranking of the world’s billionaires, and this year, like every year, I woke up, checked the list of the richest people in the world and decided I’d better go to work. Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos sits atop the list, passing Bill Gates, which makes sense because if you’re reading this…
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Compton, Calif., Mayor Aja Brown May Run for Congress Because Someone Has to Stop Stacey Dash
Compton, Calif., Mayor Aja Brown is considering throwing her hat into the congressional ring after black apologist and overall deplorable Stacey Dash announced that she would be running for office. According to TMZ, the wildly popular Brown wasn’t considering a run for Congress until word began surfacing that the Clueless star was going to run…
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GirlTrek Takes Over The Root’s Instagram and Walks the Underground Railroad in #HarrietsGreatEscape
She was and continues to be our Moses. Harriet Tubman, the ultimate freedom fighter and warrior woman—before we even heard of a Dora Milaje—was liberating enslaved black folks through the Underground Railroad for years in a holy act of selflessness and courage. In honor of Tubman, GirlTrek, the largest national public health nonprofit and movement…
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Former Trump Aide Sam Nunberg Went Full Kanye During Media Blitz, Called Sarah Huckabee Sanders a ‘Fat Slob’
Monday was just Mondaying along doing its usual Monday stuff, and then former Donald Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg turned to Monday and yelled, “Hold my antidepressants!” Basically, and this is the best way to explain what happened Monday: Nunberg received a subpoena for email records between him and former Trump adviser Roger Stone and…
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Cop Fired for Stomping on Head of Man in Handcuffs Gets Job Back Because … I Don’t Even Know Anymore
The Columbus, Ohio, police officer caught on tape stomping a subdued, handcuffed suspect’s head into the concrete will be reinstated at the police force after his firing was reversed on the grounds of no one giving a damn about black people. In April 2017, Columbus police responded to a call of a weapon being fired…