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Superior, Wis., Police Department Swears in 1st African-American Officer
We still have a long way to go if police departments across the country are still just beginning to swear in their first African-American officers. In Superior, Wis., that is just what was celebrated Thursday as, for the first time in the 133-year history of the city’s Police Department, an African-American recruit was hired the…
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#Flint: City Council Votes to Stop Issuing Tax Liens to Residents for Unpaid Water Bills
When news broke that more than 8,000 residents of the city of Flint, Mich., were threatened with the loss of their homes over unpaid water bills, the public outcry was loud and swift. Penalizing residents who didn’t pay a bill for water they couldn’t use was indeed ridiculous, and on Wednesday, the City Council voted…
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Kingston Frazier, 6, Kidnapped in Jackson, Miss., Car Theft, Found Dead; Suspect in Custody
Updated Thursday, May 18, 2017, 9:14 p.m. EDT: Three suspects have been taken into custody in the shooting death of 6-year-old Kingston Frazier. They will be charged with capital murder, says Madison County, Miss., District Attorney Michael Guest. Updated Thursday, May 18, 2017, 12:41 p.m. EDT: Dwan Wakefield, a person of interest in the killing…
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The End of the Internet as We Know It: FCC Votes to Dismantle Net Neutrality
The Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to dismantle Obama-era regulations on internet service providers, otherwise known as net neutrality rules, which have kept cable and telecom companies under strict FCC oversight since 2015. The vote was 2-1 along party lines, with FCC Republicans looking to loosen the regulations on the industry, NPR reports. Dozens of…
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3 Suspects Arrested in 6-Year-Old Kingston Frazier’s Death to Be Charged With Capital Murder
Dwan Diondro Wakefield, 17; D’Allen Washington, 17; and Bryon McBride Jr., 19, are all in custody and will be charged with capital murder for the heinous killing of 6-year-old Kingston Frazier, said Madison County District Attorney Michael Guest. There were initially two people of interest. Wakefield, a senior at Ridgeland High School and the school’s…
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Car Drives Into Pedestrians in NYC’s Times Square, Killing 1, Injuring 22
A man who police say has a history of drunken driving arrests rammed his car into a crowd of pedestrians in New York City’s busy Times Square early Thursday, killing one person and injuring 22 others before being taken into custody. The maroon Honda that 26-year-old Richard Rojas was driving came to a stop after…
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Jeff Sessions’ Senate Replacement Will Probably Be More Racist Than Jeff Sessions
When Donald Trump nominated Jeff Sessions—the love child of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and the Keebler elf—as attorney general of the United States, it was a bittersweet moment. On one hand, the Vulcan-eared bigot who once, according to sworn testimony, called a white civil rights attorney a “disgrace to his race” and the NAACP an “un-American”…
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Because the Trumps Can’t Stay Off Twitter, Lil Donnie Implied That the Comey Memo Is True
When will all of the Trumps, any of the damn Trumps, learn that Twitter is not their friend? In fact, the only thing Twitter has proved to do for the Trumps is create a complete timeline of dumbass comments that generally tend to contradict policy, law or both. Because scandals in the White House are…
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Las Vegas Police Officer Used Taser 7 Times, Unapproved Choke Hold on Unarmed Black Man Who Later Died
A Las Vegas police officer was caught on camera using a stun gun seven times as well as an unapproved choke hold to “subdue” an unarmed black man who later died after a foot chase through a casino. According to CBS News, Police Officer Kenneth Lopera thought the man—identified as Tashii S. Brown—was trying to…
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Are We Watching Sean ‘Spicy Facts’ Spicer’s Final Days as Press Secretary?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! I can’t take this. President Vladimir TrumPutin is considering downsizing Sean “Spicy Facts” Spicer’s public role, according to Politico, and of course I’ve heard the rumors that Spicy Facts is on the verge of losing his job completely as the White House press secretary, but I will have none of it. While I even…