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Family Still Searching for Answers 1 Year After Young Father Suffers Severe Brain Injuries in Chicago Jail
The family of 23-year-old Tyler Lumar is still searching for some sort of closure, one year after the young father suffered severe brain damage after he was found hanging from his own shirt inside a Chicago jail. As the Chicago Tribune reports, Lumar is currently in need of constant medical care and can no longer…
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Cue the Violins, It’s Time for Matt Lauer’s Apology
And, now, for one of the most predictable parts of this horrid news cycle, the part in which the serial harasser makes the heartfelt apology. This time, it’s Matt Lauer’s turn. The bulk of the top story for Thursday’s Today show—the morning show Lauer anchored for two decades—was spent on his apology. It was read…
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Postal Worker Stalked by Estranged Boyfriend Before Being Shot and Killed: Report
A Georgia United States Postal Service employee was stalked by her estranged boyfriend in the days before she was found fatally shot in the head at her job, witnesses tell reporters. Quantez D’Ante Tyre, 22, waited outside Tyrika Terrell’s job before shooting and killing her Monday night, DeKalb County, Ga., police said Wednesday, according to…
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#Flint: 1,314 Days Into the Water Crisis, the City Now Has a Permanent Water Source
As of Wednesday, the people of Flint, Mich., have been without clean water for 1,314 days. At least one major hurdle has been passed, however: An agreement has been signed to give the city a permanent water source that is not the Flint River. The 30-year water contract between the city of Flint and the…
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After Black Transgender Woman Is Killed in Oklahoma City, Police Are Still Searching for Answers
Around 2:30 Monday morning, Oklahoma City police responded to a disturbance at a local motel. Upon arriving, they found the body of Brooklyn BreYanna Stevenson, a 31-year-old black transgender woman. She had been murdered. As Oklahoma City’s KFOR-TV reports, police are still unsure what the killer or killers’ motives might have been and have made…
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Access Hollywood to Trump: Nah, Son. That’s You on the Tape (I’m Paraphrasing a Bit)
Access Hollywood is not here for President Donald Trump’s games. The insider tabloid show has come out to emphatically state that the voice heard on the infamous 2005 tape that captured Trump telling then-host Billy Bush about how his celebrity allows him to sexually assault women is authentic. According to a piece published in the…
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Trump Hosted an Empty-Chair Meeting After ‘Chuck and Nancy’ Told Him to Kick Rocks
Let’s recap, shall we? President Shoofly von BotherEveryone was supposed to host a meeting with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to discuss preventing a possible government shutdown. Before the meeting, President DoucheFace von FrostedTufts decided that it would be a good idea to tweet how ineffective and…
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Who’s Surprised? April Ryan Not Invited to White House Holiday Party for 1st Time in 20 Years
April Ryan, the black woman the White House loves to hate on, will not be going to the scary White House white-walking winter wonder-klan for its annual Christmas party—for the first time in 20 years. The NAACP tweeted the news Wednesday morning, saying that Ryan was not invited. The veteran White House correspondent, who recently…
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New Documents Reveal FBI Secretly Monitored Protests, Feared ‘Black Supremacist’ Attack
Newly released FBI and Department of Homeland Security documents reveal that federal law-enforcement agencies worried that violent “black supremacist extremists” would kill police officers, attack the Democratic National Convention and cause chaos at the Republican National Convention last year. Even though they could find no evidence or substantial proof, federal agencies monitored black organizations and…