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Richard Collins III Killing: Md. State Officials Claim ‘Not Enough Evidence’ Yet to Charge White Supremacist Sean Urbanski With Hate Crime
Updated Monday, May 22, 2017, 9:02 p.m. EDT: During a press conference Monday, Angela D. Alsobrooks, state attorney for Prince George’s County, Md., said that Sean Urbanski’s motives for stabbing Richard Collins III to death were still unclear, the New York Times reports. “We do not have enough evidence to say conclusively whether this is…
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Report: Trump Asked Intelligence Chiefs to Help Him Push Back Against FBI Probe Into Russian Collusion
In his capacity as president, Donald Trump reportedly asked two high-ranking national intelligence officials in March to help him push back against the FBI investigation into possible connections between his presidential campaign and the Russian government. Two current and two former intelligence officials spoke with the Washington Post on condition of anonymity, saying that Trump…
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#FreeBresha: Bresha Meadows Happy With Plea Deal, Says ‘Today Is a Great Day’
Updated Monday, May 22, 2017, 6:48 p.m. EDT: Bresha Meadows hugged her loved ones and attorneys after her hearing today and said, “Today is a good day.” The 15-year-old had just accepted a plea deal that could see her back home and with her family at the beginning of 2018. She has spent the last…
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Salem State University Apologizes for Racist Tweets After Hacking Incident
Salem State University apologized Saturday after someone apparently hacked the school’s Twitter account and posted a series of racist tweets hours before the Massachusetts school held its graduation ceremonies. Boston 25 News reports that late Friday night, Salem State’s Twitter account sent out a series of tweets for approximately two hours. The racially tinged posts…
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Trump Is Spilling All the Tea Because He’s a Messy Bitch
President Donald Trump is the friend you tell a secret to, a secret that clearly is directly connected to you, and when you hear that secret come back to you, you know exactly who said it, and when you question him, he defends it by saying, “But I never said your name, though.” During a…
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Supreme Court Rules That Disenfranchising Voters Is OK … as Long as It Isn’t Racist
The U.S. Supreme Court issued a devastating blow to race-based gerrymandering Monday when it ruled that North Carolina’s Legislature used racial considerations in redrawing two of the state’s voting districts. That’s the lead you’re likely to read as news outlets everywhere report on the high court’s 5-3 decision declaring that North Carolina’s Republican-controlled Legislature relied…
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Baltimore Police Department Brings Internal Charges Against 5 Officers in Freddie Gray Case
The Freddie Gray case lives on with the Baltimore Police Department’s decision to bring internal charges against five of the six officers involved in the case, with at least three of them also facing termination. According to the Baltimore Sun, Officer Caesar Goodson Jr., who was driving the police van in which Gray sustained fatal…
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Coincidence? Donald Trump Takes Trip and Saudi Arabia, UAE Donate $100,000,000 to Fund Backed by Ivanka
The White House has assured America, almost a million times now, that there is no collusion between White House officials and those seeking favor with the president. Sure, President TrumPutin hired all of his close friends and family to essentially run the White House, and yes, they have private interests that could be used to…
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NFL Star Calls for Boycott of Seattle Times Because Outspoken Black Athletes Are So ‘Immature’
Seattle Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett is calling for a boycott of the Seattle Times after the newspaper published a scathing opinion article calling the outspoken NFL star “immature.” Seattle Times columnist Matt Calkins waded into the beef between the All-Pro Seahawks lineman and Blowhard Hall of Fame windbag Stephen A. Smith in a Saturday…
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Millionaire Trump Supporter Sexually Abuses Black Hotel Maid, Gets Fined $50
Sometimes you have to look at the justice system and just wonder. In this case, a millionaire basically got away with barely a tap on the wrist after pleading guilty to sexually abusing a black maid at the Mayflower Hotel in downtown Washington, D.C. According to the Washington Post, the incident started Jan. 19 as…