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Trumpcare Vote Put on Hold Because It’s a Hot Trashtastic Mess
Senate Republicans have delayed their plans to vote on their newest Trumpcare bill because they now realize what many knew when GOP leaders locked themselves into a room to craft this deadweight anchor of a bill: It’s trash. The Senate Republicans version of Trumpcare—the Better Care Reconciliation Act—is a hot piece of trashy mess. Moderate…
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LaVar Ball Took His Shirt Off During WWE’s Monday Night Raw and We Can’t Unsee This
LaVar Ball’s 15 minutes ended right around the time he took his shirt off. The father of three extremely talented basketball players, including the newly drafted Los Angeles Lakers guard Lonzo Ball, recently made a guest appearance on WWE’s Monday Night Raw. The eldest Ball has molded himself from overly concerned father into a businessman…
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Commerce, Texas, Police Chief and School Board Trustee Resign Amid Backlash Over Racist Road Rage Incident
Updated Tuesday, June 27, 2017, 1:35 p.m. EDT: Commerce Independent School District trustee Michael Beane resigned Tuesday morning, CBS DFW reports. Carmen Ponder’s attorney, Lee Merritt, told The Root: “Neither Beane nor Crews accept responsibility for their actions, nor the pain they caused Ms. Ponder, but they have been sure to paint themselves as victims…
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Watch NBA Guard Victor Oladipo Get Embarrassed by 12-Year-Old
It isn’t often that a 12-year-old can say that he schooled an NBA guard during that guard’s own camp for kids, but Victor Oladipo went all in and fell for the banana in the tailpipe, aka the nutmeg dribble, when he decided to check this kid. It was reportedly the first day of camp when…
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Beyoncé and Twins Reportedly Home With Family
According to multiple sources, Beyoncé Knowles-Carter and her newborn twins (for now we’re calling them “Bad” and “Boujee”) have checked out of the hospital and settled into their luxurious-mansion rental in Malibu, Calif. E!, the Daily Mail and People (the magazine, not random folks we asked on the street) all report that Beyoncé, Jay-Z and…
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Sen. Cory Booker and Rep. John Lewis Host Sit-In on Capitol Steps to Protest Health Care Bill
On Monday night, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) sat down on the steps of the Capitol in Washington, D.C., to host a sit-in to protest the health care bill the Senate is currently debating. The Better Care Reconciliation Act was recently revealed after being kept tightly under wraps…
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Trump Couldn’t Wait to Hit Twitter After CNN’s Fake-News Debacle
A broken clock is right twice a day, and every once in a while a reputable news organization messes up. On Monday it was announced that three of CNN’s high-profile journalists resigned after a Trump-and-Russia-related article fell apart. The story, which was published late last week and was retracted after an investigation revealed that it…
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We Need to Talk About Eric Trump’s New Nazi Haircut
This weekend Eric Trump, the jawline-less son of our tweeter in chief, debuted a new haircut. The Twitterverse immediately recognized the style from Richard Spencer and historic photos of Adolf Hitler, the German chancellor known for his Third Reich sleepaway camps (or—as White House spokesman Sean Spicer rebranded them—“Holocaust centers”). Although the controversy is larger…
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From Drake’s Monologue to Draymond’s Knickers, We Watched the NBA Awards So You Didn’t Have To
On Monday the NBA did its best BET Awards impersonation and hosted the first-ever NBA Awards to honor its top players. And while this first shot was an air ball, I have to admit that I like the idea of the show—but there are several areas that are in desperate need of some extra time…
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3 of the Central Park Five Finally Celebrate Their High School Graduation, Receive Honorary Diplomas
It’s been decades in the making, but on Monday three of the Central Park Five finally got the opportunity to celebrate their high school graduation and received honorary degrees after they were robbed of their futures when they were wrongly imprisoned and later wrongly convicted for the 1989 rape of a woman who was jogging…