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Garbine Muguruza Wins Wimbledon Title After Beating Venus Williams
Venus Williams was defeated by Garbine Muguruza in the Wimbledon final. But that didn’t stop Muguruza from praising her opponent. “When I was a little girl, I was watching these finals,” said 23-year-old Muguruza, according to ESPN. “I was watching Venus—I know it sounds incredible. To be able to play against her and now hold…
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NJ Sheriff’s Office Under Investigation for Illegal Vehicle Search Caught on Video
On Friday morning, a video was floating around cyberspace in which a plainclothes police officer in New Jersey was confronted by a man for what looks like a blatantly illegal search of his car. The video has garnered more than half a million views. On Saturday the Passaic County Sheriff’s Office is under fire for…
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NYC Mother of 6-Year-Old Brutally Beaten to Death Accuses Rikers Island Guards of Facilitating Her Sexual Assault
A New York City mother who allowed her boyfriend to viciously beat her 6-year-old son, Zymere Perkins, to death, has accused Rikers Island jail guards of allowing her to be sexually assaulted by another inmate. On Friday, Geraldine Perkins filed a notice of claim ahead of a planned lawsuit against the city, its Department of…
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Special Prosecutor in Case of Officers Charged With Cover-Up in Laquan McDonald Shooting Seeks to Remove ‘Pro-Police’ Judge
Special prosecutor Patricia Brown Holmes, who indicted three Chicago police officers on charges that they covered up the circumstances of the Laquan McDonald shooting, moved to remove the judge in the case on the grounds that she is “prejudiced” against the prosecution. The Chicago Tribune reports that Holmes offered no further explanation for her request…
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Tulsa, Okla., Police Officer Betty Shelby, Who Killed Terence Crutcher, to Resign
The Tulsa, Okla., police officer who shot and killed unarmed black motorist Terence Crutcher but was later acquitted in his shooting death announced on Friday that she will resign from the Tulsa Police Department. Betty Shelby was allowed to return to active duty and landed a cushy desk job after being acquitted in May of…
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53 Percent of White Women Voted for Trump, Who Just Told France’s First Lady: ‘You’re in Such Good Shape … Beautiful’
White women confuse me. They always have. If last election vote totals are to be believed, then 53 percent of white women in America voted for the sexist-in-chief, yet 100 percent of white women also sympathize with the fictional white-lady slaves in The Handmaid’s Tale. Let’s just put aside for a moment the fact that the…
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Job Offers Come Rolling in for Former Prisoner Who Missed Job Interview to Save Car-Crash Victim
A 32-year-old father who is trying to get back on his feet after a prison stint passed up on a long-awaited job interview in order to save the life of a stranger wounded in a car crash. But now his good deeds are coming back in double, with job offers and donations coming in on…
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Trump’s Russia Lawyer Is Out Here Cussing People Out: ‘Watch Your Back, Bitch’
President Donald Trump’s attorney on Russian matters might have been the sixth member of N.W.A that no one knew about until now. That’s because Marc Kasowitz is as reckless with his curses as the late, great Eazy-E once was. According to several emails published by ProPublica Thursday, Kasowitz didn’t take too kindly to an email…
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Jim Crow Laws Alive and Well in de Blasio’s NYC: Black and Brown People Still Targeted, Arrested at Higher Rates Than Whites, Report Finds [Retracted]
RETRACTED (6/12/18): This story has been removed because we have discovered it was in breach of our editorial standards. If you’d like to know more, you can read an editor’s note here. A cached version of the story is available here for transparency.
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Fla. School District Promises to ‘Take Appropriate Action’ After Elementary School Teacher Accused of Calling Black Students ‘Rats’
A Florida school district is promising to “take appropriate” action after an elementary school teacher was accused of calling black students “rats” and claiming that they could “infest the class,” adding that “that’s why their race is either dead or in jail.” Tell us how you really feel, why don’t you? According to WSBTV, the…