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LaVar Ball Pulls LiAngelo Ball Out of UCLA Over Indefinite Suspension: Report
LaVar Ball is reportedly unhappy with the punishment his middle son, LiAngelo, is receiving at UCLA since returning to campus in the aftermath of the China shoplifting incident—so much so that he has removed the younger Ball from the school in order to explore other options. After confirming to ESPN that he had pulled his…
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Trump’s Lawyer Says the ‘President Cannot Obstruct Justice’
This administration is nothing if not an abject lesson in doublespeak and pimp talk as Donald Trump and his little friends find creative ways to lie to and gaslight us, all in an attempt to make us believe that our eyes and ears are lying to us—and the only truth comes from them. In what…
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Trump’s Travel Ban Is Back On, Says Supreme Court
The Supreme Court said Monday that it will allow President Donald Trump’s travel ban to be fully enforced while legal challenges against it wend their way through the lower courts. In layman’s terms, individuals from six majority-Muslim nations and two others will no longer be able to travel to the United States. There’s also a…
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Longtime Florida Congresswoman Sentenced to 5-Year Prison Term for Corruption
In 1992, Corrine Brown of Jacksonville, Fla., was the first African American from that state to be elected to Congress since Reconstruction. She served 12 terms until this January, when she lost the 2016 Democratic primary because of both corruption charges and gerrymandering of her 5th Congressional District. On Monday, a federal judge sentenced Brown…
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Donald Trump Would Rather Have Old-Ass Orrin Hatch Run Again Than Have Mitt Romney on the Senate: Report
President Donald Trump would rather have Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), who went to elementary school back when children wrote on papyrus using fossil bones, than have former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney take over his seat. According to Politico, Trump is reportedly courting the 83-year-old seven-term senator to run one more time to block Romney,…
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Massachusetts Cop Finally Fired After Writing ‘Love This’ About Deadly Attack at Charlottesville, Va., White Supremacist Rally
The Springfield, Mass., Police Department fired one of their officers, Conrad Lariviere, for comments he made in the aftermath of the deadly Charlottesville, Va., white supremacist rally that killed one person and injured 19 others. As Vice News reports, on Aug. 13, a day after the protests, Lariviere responded to a breaking news post about…
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While the NFL Is Losing Viewership, Colin Kaepernick Is Living His Best Life
On Sunday, free-agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick was honored at the ACLU of Southern California’s annual Bill of Rights Dinner, where he accepted the Eason Monroe Courageous Advocate Award to a standing ovation. “We all have an obligation no matter the risk, and regardless of reward, to stand up for our fellow men and women who…
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Say What? Police Don’t Know Who Invited This Terrible ASL Interpreter to Their News Conference
Tampa Bay, Fla., police are still trying to figure out how an American Sign Language interpreter they didn’t even invite managed to derail a press conference about a suspected serial killer in Florida last week. The interpreter, identified by the police as Derlyn Roberts, delivered a completely incoherent translation that left deaf and hearing-impaired Florida…
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Golden Krust Owner Lowell Hawthorne Reportedly Owed Millions in Back Taxes
Many in the black and Caribbean communities reeled over news of the recent apparent suicide of Lowell Hawthorne, founder and CEO of Golden Krust Bakery & Grill, with commentary ranging from the proverbial “Money cannot buy happiness” to true befuddlement: “Why would he do it?” For those searching for an answer to explain his actions,…