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House Republicans to Troops: Pay for Your Own Damn GI Bill
Just like when Republicans talk about “family values” and then you find out they’ve been having secret sex meet-ups in airport bathrooms or abusing teenage boys, when conservatives say they “support the troops,” they usually mean they’re sending them overseas to fight for oil profits, but now it also means they’re taxing them for their…
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Steve Stephens’ Ex-Girlfriend Joy Lane Meets With Robert Godwin Sr.’s Family
Joy Lane’s name became a topic of conversation after Steve Stephens mentioned her during his recorded manifesto before he killed 74-year-old Robert Godwin Sr. Stephens told the elderly man that Lane was the reason he was being killed before shooting the Cleveland man in the head. On Tuesday, in an interview with a local Ohio…
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NYC Man Plummets to His Death After Trying to Escape Police Out of Window
In a Facebook Live video, Jamel Chandler, 21, of Brooklyn, N.Y., said that he hadn’t been home for a month and that cops were knocking at his door to arrest him. In an attempt to evade arrest, Chandler tied together some bedsheets and tried to escape from a window of the 11th-floor apartment where he…
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Reports of Suicide Still Swirling, NYPD Now Calls NY Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam’s Drowning Death ‘Suspicious’
The New York City Police Department now says that state Justice Sheila Abdus-Salaam’s death is “suspicious” after officials last week told the Associated Press that Abdus-Salaam’s drowning death was being treated as a suicide. As previously reported by The Root, Abdus-Salaam, 65, the first Muslim woman in U.S. history to become a judge and the…
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Racist GOP State Sen. Frank Artiles Calls Black Colleagues ‘N–gers’ and Lived
Updated Wednesday, April 19, 2017, 1:05 p.m. EDT: Artiles claims that he was referring to white colleagues as “niggas” and insists that he’s not racist, Politico reports. Earlier: Another day, another Republican showing out in the name of white supremacy. This time it’s Frank Artiles, a Cuban state senator in Miami serving Florida’s 40th District,…
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#FlipThe6th: The Jon Ossoff Train Keeps Running in Ga., Forcing June Standoff With GOP
Democrat Jon Ossoff, 30, almost turned a GOP stronghold blue Tuesday night in a special election to see who will take over Georgia’s 6th Congressional District. Instead, Ossoff, who would become the youngest member of Congress if elected, forced a June runoff with the GOP front-runner, former Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel, which will…
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#Flint: Mayor Says Switching City Water Source ‘Too Risky’ After Lead-Contamination Crisis
April 25 marks three years since the city of Flint, Mich., switched its water source from the city of Detroit to the Flint River, causing a massive lead-contamination crisis that has not been resolved, and on Tuesday, the city’s mayor said that switching water sources again as previously planned would be too risky and expensive.…
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Los Angeles Police Commission Votes to Require Cops to Try De-Escalation Before Firing Guns
The Los Angeles Police Commission voted on a policy Tuesday that would require all LAPD officers to try to defuse situations whenever possible before firing their guns, with the specific aim of decreasing the number of officer-involved shootings. From the Los Angeles Times: The new rules formally incorporate a decades-old concept called “de-escalation” into the…
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Fresno, Calif., Shooting Rampage: Suspect in Custody, 3 People Killed
Police in Fresno, Calif., say a man went on a shooting rampage in the city Tuesday morning, randomly firing at four people, with authorities saying that he killed three of them before he was taken into custody. Police Chief Jerry Dyer said that 39-year-old Kori Ali Muhammad, who is also suspected in the fatal shooting…
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Black Woman Comes Forward to Say Bill O’Reilly Called Her ‘Hot Chocolate’ While She Worked at Fox
Bill O’Reilly continues to put the “dirty old man” in dirty old man, according to a new claim. A black woman has come forward and told attorney Lisa Bloom that when she was a clerical worker at Fox News, O’Reilly leered at her and called her “hot chocolate.” Bloom helped the woman report the harassment…