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Journalists Kicked Out of Kushner Family’s Pay-for-Play Visa Event in China
A Beijing-based correspondent for the Washington Post claimed that she and a colleague were kicked out of a “Kushner event featuring Jared’s sister.” She also says the other journalist had part of her video and audio recordings deleted. Emily Rauhala attended the event in China in which Nicole Kushner Meyer, the sister of White House…
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Black Passenger Says American Airlines Forced Her to Give Up Her 1st-Class Seat but Let Her White Friend Remain
On May 2, Rane Baldwin checked into American Airlines Flight 5389, leaving Kentucky for Charlotte, N.C. Baldwin, a black woman, and her friend Janet Novack, a white woman, were traveling together, and both had first-class seats because Baldwin bought and upgraded the tickets. But unfortunately for Baldwin, she was literally moved to the back of…
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2 More Plaintiffs Join Racial-Discrimination Suit Against Fox News Network
A racial-discrimination lawsuit filed against Fox News continues to grow as two additional plaintiffs joined on to the now 6-week-old suit that was filed in Bronx Supreme Court in New York City against multiple defendants, including the network, parent company Twenty-First Century Fox, Fox News, Fox Business Executive Vice President Dianne Brandi, and former Senior…
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Kan. Bail Bondsman Sentenced to Life in Prison for Killing 7-Year-Old Son Whose Remains Were Found in Pigsty
A former Kansas bail bondsman was sentenced to life in prison Monday for the murder of his 7-year-old son, who, law enforcement say, was subject to abuse and starvation before his remains were fed to pigs on the family’s rental property. According to the Associated Press, 46-year-old Michael Jones won’t be eligible for parole for…
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School Corporal Punishment Ban Fails in La. House
Students in more than half of Louisiana’s public school districts will still be subject to paddling and spanking in school for misbehavior after the state House on Monday rejected a proposal to ban corporal punishment across the state. The Times-Picayune reports that only 34 lawmakers voted in favor of Shreveport Democrat Rep. Barbara Norton’s prohibition…
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Black Students at UC Santa Cruz Take Over Administration Building for 3 Days Until Demands Are Met
Black students at the University of California, Santa Cruz, believed that a “hostile climate” was being fostered against them on the school’s campus, so last week they took over an administrative building for three days until the university agreed to meet their demands. The protest was organized by the Afrikan/Black Student Alliance, and KSBW reports…
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Lawsuit: Miss. Sheriff’s Department Illegally Targeted Black Population for Decades
Betty Tucker had invited a few guests over for a cookout in the garden of her Canton, Miss., home when two plainclothes sheriff’s deputies walked into her home. Even though they didn’t have a warrant, they came in, checked her pockets and the pockets of her guests, searched her patio on their hands and knees,…
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Eric Trump Claimed Russians Fund Trump’s Golf Courses: Report
One of President Vladimir TrumPutin’s sons was out here spilling all the tea in 2014, telling a prominent golf writer that Russians funded one of Papa’s golf courses, because of course they did. James Dodson, who co-authored the Arnold Palmer biography A Golfer’s Life, told Boston radio station WBUR that during a trip to one…