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Former Ferguson, Mo., City Spokesman Found With Meth: Report
Police charged a former city spokesman with possession of methamphetamine on Tuesday after a traffic stop. Jeff Small, also a former on-air reporter in St. Louis, began working for the city in 2014 following the death of Michael Brown, KPLR-TV reports. On Jan. 6, Small was pulled over by cops for a broken headlight, according…
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Man Unable to Pay Baggage Fees Kicked Off British Airways After Trying to Wear All His Clothes Onboard
Airline baggage fees are too damn high these days … and depending on what airline you’re flying (and the distance you are going), that feeling of being ripped off can vary. Do you get a first bag free or is the first bag $25? Is it the same price for each bag or do the…
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#NetNeutrality: Senate Democrats Need 1 More Member to Vote to Overturn FCC Decision
Senate Democrats announced Tuesday that they have 50 of the 100 members of the Senate prepared to vote in favor of their Congressional Review Act resolution to overturn the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to repeal net neutrality. According to CNBC, Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) said in a statement that all 49 Democrats were in favor…
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Is There More to the Story of Donald Trump and Stormy Daniels?
On Friday, news broke that Donald Trump had paid former adult-film star Stormy Daniels $130,000 in October 2016 for her silence about an alleged sexual encounter the two of them had 10 years prior in 2006. Now a new report raises questions as to whether there is more to Trump’s history with Daniels than just…
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White House Doctor: Trump Is Overweight and Has High Cholesterol, but His Mental Health Is Fine
White House doctor Ronny Jackson, the white doctor with the inherently black name, conducted the president’s physical late last week, then conducted a full-on question-and-answer period with the press to address how physically fit and awesome the president believes himself to be. After the White House released a statement in which the doctor’s name was…
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Damn, Kevin Spacey. Are You an N-Word-Dropping Racist, Too?
The award-winning actor and alleged child molester Kevin Spacey has now been accused of racism by the owner of an all-black security company who provided security on the set of the series House of Cards. (To be clear, when we call Spacey “award-winning,” we are referring to his 2000 best actor Oscar for American Beauty.…
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Forbes’ 10 Cities Where African Americans Are Doing the Best Economically Are All in the South
When Forbes began its annual ranking of the places where black people are doing the best economically, many people probably assumed that the list would be filled with places in the North and the West, culminating in the city where residents are required to own at least one pair of Timberlands and everyone’s last name…
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Steve Bannon Subpoenaed in Russian Investigation, but Will He Snitch?
Steve “Big Poppa” Bannon, the former chief strategist to the racist in chief who has been in a full-on fuss fight with the man, has been subpoenaed by special counsel Robert Mueller to appear before a grand jury. I’m praying that Bannon walks into the room and asks for a pack of Newports, a bag…