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Donald Trump Will Light Up the White House in Blue to Support Police Who Face ‘Unfair Defamation and Vilification’
President Donald Trump believes that his fellow politicians are not as supportive to police as they should be, and he said Monday that officers on the beat are subject to “unfair defamation and vilification” that have made their jobs more dangerous. Trump spoke at an annual memorial for officers slain in the line of duty,…
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Recent College Graduate, Mother of 2 Killed in Fatal Shooting on I-95 in Va.
Two people were shot and killed as they were driving along on Interstate 95 in downtown Richmond, Va., early Sunday morning after another car pulled up and opened fire. According to WTVR, Tanna Gardner, 23, was driving the car, which contained six other passengers, when the shooting happened. Gardner and a passenger, 26-year-old Sharayne Holland,…
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Family Speaks Out After Video Emerges of Conn. Teenager Shot by Cops
Days after a Connecticut police officer fatally shot a teenager, the family of the victim spoke with The Root about the teen’s death, an alleged cover-up and a video from the scene of the incident. Jayson Negron, 15, was killed Tuesday when, law-enforcement officials say, Bridgeport Police Officer James Boulay fatally wounded Jayson after a…
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Supreme Court Rejects Appeal to Reinstate NC’s Strict Voter-ID Law
The Supreme Court on Monday said that it had zero time for North Carolina and its shenanigans, rejecting an appeal to reinstate its stupid voter-identification laws, which a lower court had ruled targeted African Americans “with almost surgical precision.” The justices instead let stand the lower court’s ruling, which struck down the photo-ID requirement and…
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14-Year-Old Carson Huey-You Becomes Youngest Person to Graduate From Texas Christian University
On Saturday, some 2,000 students received their undergraduate, graduate or doctorate degrees from Chancellor Victor J. Boschini Jr. during three ceremonies at Texas Christian University. Carson Huey-You was one of them, officially becoming the youngest person to ever receive a bachelor’s degree at the school as he walked across the stage at age 14. But…
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NJ Family Kicked Off JetBlue Flight Over a Birthday Cake
I’m beginning to think that all these airlines are trolling us. There’s no way that so much bad news can circulate at once, but alas, here we are again. This time, a New Jersey family was kicked off a Las Vegas-bound JetBlue flight—delaying birthday-party plans and quite possibly leaving a bad taste in the family’s…
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SC Mom Charged With Child Cruelty After Beating 6-Year-Old Son Who Made Mother’s Day Card for His Grandmother and Not Her: Report
A South Carolina woman is facing a child-cruelty charge after authorities say she beat her 6-year-old son because he made a Mother’s Day card for his grandmother but not her. According to Fox Carolina, the Spartanburg, S.C., Police Department was called to a disturbance at a home Thursday around 6:40 p.m. When they arrived at…
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18-Year-Old Baton Rouge, La., Honor Student Dies of Gunshot Wounds 3 Days Before Graduation
Tragically, yet another young black man has fallen to gun violence. A senior at McKinley High School in Baton Rouge, La., and former starting quarterback died Saturday evening from a gunshot wound after a party celebrating the upcoming graduation, WAFB reports. Bryant Lee, 18, was shot in the head early Saturday morning in North Baton…