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If America Can Self-Correct, Then TrumPutin Is Heading for Impeachment
Can you feel it? The walls are closing in on this Negan-ass administration. It feels like it’s only a matter of time—except I don’t trust this Republican Congress, which makes me feel like we might have to endure years of this, and that would be horrible—but for now just go with me. Let’s act as…
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Roger Ailes, Former CEO of Fox News, Dead at 77
Roger Ailes, the embattled former CEO of Fox News who built the news station into the conservative media empire that it’s become, died Thursday. He was 77. “I am profoundly sad and heartbroken to report that my husband, Roger Ailes, passed away this morning,” Ailes’ wife, Elizabeth, wrote in a statement, the New York Times…
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Fla. Teen Was Asked by School to Change Her Natural Hair Because It Was Against Hair Policy
Another day, another dress code hair policy in need of a change. This time, a Florida teen was caught off guard when she was asked to change the hair that grows out of her head naturally because it was against dress code. “People say they love my hair because it’s so diverse, curly and Afrocentric,”…
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NY Cop Suspended After Being Accused of Sexually Assaulting Black Woman Inside Police Station
A Suffolk County police officer on New York’s Long Island has been suspended without pay after being accused of sexually assaulting a woman inside his precinct while his partner allegedly looked the other way. According to CBS New York, internal affairs and the FBI have launched a criminal investigation into the alleged actions of Officer…
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Dallas School Police Officer Put on Administrative Leave After Slamming 12-Year-Old Girl to the Ground, Breaking Her Clavicle: Report
A Dallas Independent School District police officer has been placed on administrative leave after being seen on video picking up a sixth-grade student and slamming her to the ground, injuring the girl, authorities say. “Her clavicle is fractured,” Alma Valadez, the mother of 12-year-old Mariana Benton, told CBS DFW. In video shared across social media,…
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Betty Shelby Verdict: White Woman’s Fear Wins, but Don’t Ever Forget This Is the Face of a Killer
As previously reported by The Root, a jury of Betty Shelby’s peers deliberated for nine hours Wednesday before finding the Tulsa, Okla., police officer not guilty of manslaughter in the Sept. 16, 2016, fatal shooting of 40-year-old Terence Crutcher. Though there have been reports of tears, it ultimately didn’t matter, to them, that Terence Crutcher was…
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Inmate Who Won Release From Prison Taken Into Custody by US Immigration
Updated Thursday, May 18, 2017, 1:33 a.m. EDT: Rene Lima-Marin’s family was heartbroken Wednesday when, on the day he was to be released from prison per a judge’s order, he was taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. CBS Denver reports that Jasmine Lima-Marin surprised her sons Tuesday with the news that their father…
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Betty Shelby Found Not Guilty in Shooting Death of Unarmed Black Motorist Terence Crutcher
The jury in the trial of Tulsa, Okla., Police Officer Betty Shelby deliberated for nine hours Wednesday before finding her not guilty of manslaughter in the shooting death of unarmed black motorist Terence Crutcher. KTUL reports that the Crutcher family is expected to address the media with the district attorney after a brief meeting. Crutcher’s…
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Former House Majority Leader McCarthy Told Paul Ryan, Others, ‘I Think Putin Pays’ Trump: Report
Last year, while Donald Trump was working to win the Republican presidential nomination, one of his closest allies, then-House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, told fellow GOP leaders in a private conversation on Capitol Hill that he believed Trump might be receiving payments from Russian President Vladimir Putin. “There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher…
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Justice Department Appoints Special Counsel to Oversee Probe of Russian Interference in Election
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced Wednesday that the Department of Justice has appointed a special counsel, Robert Mueller, to oversee the investigation into whether or not associates of President Donald Trump and Russian officials coordinated last year to interfere with the U.S. presidential election. Mueller is a former prosecutor who also served as FBI…