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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…
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Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke Officially Hops Into Basket of Deplorables
The “Blue Lives Matter” advocate who called Black Lives Matter a hate group and oversees a correctional facility where both inmates and babies have died under his watch—all while perpetrating the grossest, must disgusting offense a black man can ever commit: wearing a cowboy hat—announced Wednesday that he is taking his talents to the Trump…
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Chicago Man Charged With Aggravated Battery After Punching Female Security Guard: Report
A Chicago man who was seen on camera viciously punching a female security guard who was trying to assist him after he vomited has been arrested, police confirmed. According to the New York Post, 23-year-old Matthew De Leon was charged late Tuesday with three felony counts of aggravated battery after being identified as the man…
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Obama on Trump: ‘He’s Nothing but a Bullshitter’
Barack Obama doesn’t get upset; in fact, he rarely loses his cool. It was one of the things that troubled me about his presidency. I really just wanted him to stop it with the politics of racial representation and threaten to kick someone’s ass. It isn’t really his fault, though; he knew how to play…
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Kobe Bryant Sends Gifts to Jordan Edwards’ Brother for His Birthday
reported Kevon Edwards was in the car on April 29 when his unarmed 15-year-old brother, Jordan, was gunned down by a Dallas police officer. The two brothers were leaving a party in Balch Springs, Texas, when an officer opened fire on the car they were riding in. The story touched Kobe Bryant so much that…
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Leaked Police Bodycam Footage Shows Balch Springs, Texas, Officer Tasing Handcuffed Black Man
What’s done in the dark will usually come to light, as the Balch Springs, Texas, Police Department is apparently learning. Just two weeks after a now-fired officer shot and killed 15-year-old Jordan Edwards, the police chief is now also in the middle of an investigation regarding who leaked a video of another controversial incident involving…
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Closing Arguments to Begin in Trial of Tulsa, Okla., Officer Who Killed Terence Crutcher
The manslaughter trial of Betty Shelby—the Tulsa, Okla., police officer who fatally shot Terence Crutcher, an unarmed black man—is slowly coming to an end, with closing arguments scheduled to begin Wednesday. As Reuters notes, Shelby, 43, faces four years to life in prison if convicted of manslaughter for the September 2016 shooting death of Crutcher,…
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When Russia Wants to Prove the US President Isn’t a Liar, It’s Time to Break Up
It’s a sad day for America when the Russian president is willing to provide transcripts of the conversation between the president of the United States and Russian officials in order to prove that the U.S. president isn’t lying. On Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he would be willing to provide Congress with a…
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Mass. ACLU Files Complaint Against Charter School That Disciplined Students Over Braids
The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts has filed a complaint against Malden’s Mystic Valley Regional Charter School after reports that the school disciplined and suspended students because they wear braids, citing the school’s dress policy. The ACLU filed the complaint Monday with the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, charging that the policy…