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Former Tennessee Rep. Harold Ford Jr. Fired After Woman Says He Harassed Her
Investment banking behemoth Morgan Stanley fired former Democratic Tennessee Rep. Harold Ford Jr. on Thursday for what it called “conduct inconsistent with our values” in the latest case of a high-profile man to lose his livelihood for allegedly acting terribly with women in a professional setting. HuffPost broke the story, and spoke to a woman…
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Man With Life Sentence Escapes Prison, Does TV Interview to Proclaim His Innocence
A man sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole escaped from an Alabama correctional facility but took a few minutes from his busy schedule of evading authorities to do a television interview. On Monday, Ronald Odell King and Antwone Wilson, both 27 years old, escaped the St. Clair Correctional Facility in Springville,…
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Department of Justice Video Confirms Widely Held Belief That Jeff Sessions Is a Complete Asshole
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has historically been an asshole. This isn’t debatable. He’s such an asshole that God’s greatest grandma, Coretta Scott King, once wrote a letter to block Sessions from becoming a federal judge. One of his major policies since becoming attorney general has been green-lighting policy that allows police to take the cash…
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Former Cop Sentenced to 20 Years for Shooting Death of Walter Scott
Updated Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017, 2:30 p.m. EST: ABC News reports that former South Carolina Police Officer Michael Slager has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for shooting Walter Scott, an unarmed black man, in the back during a routine traffic stop in 2015. Earlier: It happened. A (former) cop is finally going to…
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Gordon Ramsay Transformed a Soul Food Restaurant Into an Unseasoned Hipster Mess
A Sacramento, Calif., restaurant owner is wondering what the hell happened after the chef known for his screaming whiteness invaded her restaurant with his reality show and splashed Caucasianery all over everything. If you’ve never seen Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell & Back, it is the same premise of Ramsay’s Hell’s Kitchen and the…
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2 Students Dead After Shooter Opened Fire at New Mexico High School
Another school shooting has left two students dead and 15 injured after a gunman opened fire at a New Mexico school. The New York Daily News reports that the shooter is also dead, but the Aztec High School remains on lockdown and has been evacuated. According to the report, the school, which is in the…
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How Are The GOP Going to Make Up for Massive Tax Cuts to the Rich? Yep, Cuts to Medicaid and Welfare
Isn’t it just like the GOP to run out here an issue the trashiest tax bill in the history of tax bills, a tax bill that is literally cutting taxes for the top 1% and when asked how they are going to stop driving up the national deficit—remember the Republican Party is supposed to be…
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Racist, Anti-Semitic Flyers Found on Princeton Campus
For the second time this year, white supremacist flyers have appeared at Princeton University. It is unclear who’s responsible for posting the flyers, which were spotted on the New Jersey campus Monday, but they came in two varieties: the first, a personal attack against a Jewish resident of the city of Princeton; the second, an…
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Sen. Al Franken Admits No Guilt and Offers No Apology in Bizarre Resignation Speech
Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) has resigned following several allegations of sexual assault. Franken delivered one of the most oddball speeches a man accused of inappropriately touching and forcing himself onto at least eight different women has ever delivered. Franken admitted no fault and issued no apology to the alleged victims; in fact, he noted that…
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Man Catches Beatdown From 2 Women After They Discover Video of Him Molesting 9-Year-Old
Police intervened in a confrontation at a Florida restaurant that appeared to be over a digital tablet and realized that the man involved allegedly molested the daughter of one of the women, who were graciously allowing him to “catch these hands.” According to Jacksonville’s WJXT-TV, police arrived at a Lake City, Fla., McDonald’s on Tuesday…