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Despite Supreme Court Ruling, District Attorneys in La. Are Working Against Juvenile Lifers Seeking Parole
In 2012 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that giving juveniles mandatory life sentences without parole was a violation of the Eighth Amendment. In 2016 a Supreme Court decision made the 2012 ruling apply retroactively, yet the state of Louisiana continues to push back and fight against giving juvenile offenders an opportunity at parole. The Times-Picayune…
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Papa John’s: Now the Official ‘Pizza’ of Nazis, According to Nazis
After Papa John’s blamed the NFL players protests for its lagging pizza sales, the Daily Stormer quickly caped for its trash-ass “pizza.” (For the uninitiated, the Stormer is a site rife with neo-Nazis and white supremacists that, coincidentally, can’t keep The Root’s name out of its mouth.) Last week, Papa John’s founder John Schnatter told…
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Fox News Host Looks for the ‘Positive’ in Texas Shooting, Insinuates Church Is the Best Place to Be Shot
I’m not sure if Fox News host Ainsley Earhardt was attempting to comfort the grieving families of those who lost loved ones in the Texas church massacre over the weekend, or if she were extolling her own faith and preferences, or if she just, as a matter of fact, enjoys shoving her whole entire foot…
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Will White Identity Politics Prevail on Tuesday? Conservatives Use Racist, Anti-Immigrant Messages to Get Out the Vote
To paraphrase The Root’s editor-in-chief, Danielle Belton, Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, rife with xenophobia, sexism and racism, made a cattle call of what previous conservative leaders had merely dog-whistled. Now, as select state and local races across the country draw to a close this Tuesday (among them, Virginia’s hotly contested gubernatorial race), conservatives around the…
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Authorities Believe ‘Domestic Situation’ May Have Motivated Gunman in Texas Church Shooting
Authorities say that a “domestic situation” within the Texas gunman’s family may have sparked the horrific shooting that left 26 dead in a Sutherland Springs, Texas, church. “The suspect’s mother-in-law attended this church,” Texas Department of Public Safety spokesperson Freeman Martin told reporters Monday morning, according to the New York Times. “We know that he…
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Everything You Wanted to Know About the Lie-Filled FBI File on Martin Luther King Jr. Released by Trump
Buried in the government documents surrounding the death of President John F. Kennedy was an explosive FBI report about civil rights leader and icon Martin Luther King Jr. Even though the report had nothing to do with the JFK assassination, the Trump administration included the newly unsealed dossier in a trove of documents released Friday…
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Cyclist Who Flipped Off Trump Motorcade Fired From Government Contracting Firm
You all would remember our dark knight, the lone cyclist who was photographed flipping the bird at Donald Trump’s motorcade as it passed her en route from his Sterling, Va., golf club? Well, no good deed goes unpunished, and that woman, now identified as Juli Briskman, has been fired from her government contracting job since…
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Video Shows Cop Punching Disorderly Female Fan After She Slaps Him at University of Miami Football Game
The Miami-Dade Police Department is currently reviewing video of a violent altercation between a disorderly University of Miami fan and a cop who was escorting her out of the stadium Saturday. Bridget Freitas, a 30-year-old nurse, has been charged with battery of a police officer after authorities say she backhand-slapped a male cop. Video footage…
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Babysitter Believed to Have Kidnapped 6-Year-Old Autistic Boy in Brooklyn, NY: Report
Updated Monday Nov. 6, 2017, 8:50 a.m. EST: Devin Monroe, a 6-year-old autistic boy from Brooklyn, N.Y, has been found safe and unharmed, authorities say. WPIX-TV reports that both he and his babysitter, Emmanuel Kolajo, who officials say is believed to have kidnapped the boy, were found Monday morning after they disappeared over the weekend.…