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North Carolina Woman Flips Glamorous Mug Shot Into an Advertisement for Her Hair Business
Those of us who resolved to flip negative situations into positive ones in the new year might want to look at Charlotte, N.C.’s Shia Yearwood as an example. As the Charlotte Observer reports, Yearwood’s year got off to a rough start after being arrested for violating a domestic protective order on Jan. 3 related to…
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Substitute Teacher Fired After Private High School Discovers He Works for Richard Spencer’s White Supremacist Think Tank
An all-girls Catholic high school in Maryland has taken out the trash fired a substitute teacher and field hockey coach after discovering his white supremacist ties, including the fact that he works for Richard Spencer’s think tank, which was originally reported by our sister site Splinter. Gregory Conte was fired from his positions at Academy…
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‘Sloppy Steve’ Bannon Backtracks, Offers Groveling Apology to Trump Daddy
I guess, between the millions in soft money reportedly being yanked from under him and the biggest coattails he’s ever ridden publicly going bye-bye, “Sloppy Steve” Bannon (President Donald Trump’s words, not mine) has tapped out and apologized for statements attributed to him in a new biography of the president, Fire and Fury: Inside the…
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Police Say Burglary Was the Motive in Horrific Quadruple Homicide in Upstate New York
According to an indictment handed down on Friday, police in Troy, N.Y., have revealed a motive in the quadruple homicide of two women and two children in late December. According to the Associated Press, a Rensselaer County New York grand jury indicted James White, 38, and Justin Mann, 24, on 13 murder counts, as well…
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Former Sheriff David Clarke Heads to Trial for Facebook ‘Snowflake’ Threat
Old Davey Clarke might wanna watch his mouth (or keyboard fingers). Although a federal judge on Friday dismissed most of a civil rights lawsuit against former Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. over an incident at a Milwaukee airport, the judge did allow one portion to stand—the claim that Clarke retaliated against the plaintiff on Facebook—and…
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Off-Duty NYPD Cop Goes HAM, Busts Innocent Driver’s Mouth With Metal Handcuffs After Traffic Dustup
A 24-year-old cop went berserk on a New York City couple after they got into a car accident with him this week. “Don’t you know who the fuck I am?” Officer Michael Baror screamed after he rear-ended 28-year-old James Nacimas’ vehicle in Brooklyn on Monday night. “I’m NYPD! You don’t fuck with the NYPD.” After…
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You Get a Book! Billionaire Behind ‘Need to Impeach’ Campaign Buys Michael Wolff’s Trump Tome for Every Member of Congress
Billionaire hedge fund manager and Democratic donor Tom Steyer says he purchased a copy of author Michael Wolff’s new book on Donald Trump’s White House—a book the president has tried to prevent from coming out—for each and every member of Congress. Steyer says that he plans to hand-deliver Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White…
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US Tried to Get Cute on Iran but Was Promptly Rebuffed by Russia, Which Asked About Black Lives Matter
The old adage “When you point the finger, you have three pointing back at you” rang true in the United Nations on Friday as the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., and former Republican governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley inexplicably called an emergency session to lecture the Iranians about their crackdown on protests in that…
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#NetNeutrality: FCC Reveals Details of ‘Restoring Internet Freedom’ Order
Just three weeks after it voted to repeal the rules of net neutrality, the Federal Communications Commission finally released the details of its “Restoring Internet Freedom” order Thursday. As expected, the 539-page order removes a lot of protections that President Barack Obama’s administration put in place—the biggest being the end of public utility regulation of…