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NYC Substitute Teacher Arrested on Charges He Ripped Off 8-Year-Old Student’s Hijab
A New York City substitute teacher who was fired after ripping a hijab off the head of an 8-year-old Muslim girl has been arrested, police say. According to the New York Post, Oghenetega Edah turned himself in to police at the 45th Precinct in the Bronx on Wednesday after the NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force…
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Prosecutors Race to Keep Suspected Serial Killer of Infants, Known as the Angel of Death, Behind Bars
Genene Jones is a former nurse who made international headlines over 30 years ago as the suspected serial killer of more than a dozen infants in the pediatric intensive care unit of a hospital in San Antonio, and she’s scheduled to be released from prison in March 2018. Dubbed the Angel of Death, Jones was…
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Accident Victim Questioned About Immigration Status Before Getting Help, Later Detained by Border Patrol
A man in Key West, Fla., was hit by a car as he was riding his bicycle to work. The police officer who responded to the scene questioned the accident victim about his immigration status before offering medical assistance, and the entire exchange was captured on video by the officer’s body camera. Marcos Antonio Huete,…
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Federal Student Aid Chief Quits After Refusing to Testify Before House Oversight Committee
James Runcie, chief operating officer of the Department of Education’s Office of Federal Student Aid, quit his job suddenly Tuesday night and sent an email to his staff outlining his reasons for not wanting to work in the Trump administration. Runcie was an Obama-administration holdover who was first appointed in 2011 and then reappointed in…
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Ala. Restores Voting Rights for Thousands With Felony Convictions
In a move that’s sure to get people’s underwear in a bunch among those who are already against granting people the right to vote, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has signed a bill restoring thousands of Alabama felons’ right to vote. Voting rights were granted to some felons after the Definition of Moral Turpitude Act was…
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Nicholas Dean, New Orleans Charter School Principal Caught Wearing Nazi Rings and Appearing on ‘White Genocide’ Podcast, Removed From Campus
Updated Thursday, May 25, 2017, 2:45 p.m. EDT: Nicholas Dean has been fired from his position at Crescent Leadership Academy. “He will not return as the Principal or be associated with Crescent Leadership Academy,” the charter school’s parent group and board said in a statement Thursday. Crescent Leadership Academy Superintendent Tracy Bennett-Joseph confirmed Monday that…
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Trump Shoves NATO Leader, Makes Stupid Speech and Embarrasses America
President Donald Trump is the drunk uncle demanding that the DJ at the cookout turn the music down because he wants to make a speech. Everyone knows what’s coming and everyone is nervous. On Thursday the president and our NATO cousins all got together for a little hangout time, and when Trump got the mic,…
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Manchester Bombing: UK Won’t Share Intel With US Because Trump’s Administration Can’t Stop Leaking Information
Because the Trump administration can’t hold water, not only has the president had to come out and denounce reported leaks coming from someone in the White House, but police in Manchester, England, are no longer sharing details of their investigation into the most recent terrorist attacks with their American counterparts. On Thursday, Donald Trump issued…
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Racist Sprint Customer Says She Has ‘Mixed’ Kids and She’s Not Racist
Last year a white student at my son’s high school called a black kid a slave. When my son came home to tell me what happened, I decided to look the kid’s mother up on my community’s Facebook page to inform her about her son. After I told the woman that her son goes around…