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Student’s Violent Threat Against Her Md. School Thwarted Because Her Parents Turned Her In
Authorities in Frederick County, Md., said that they were able to stop a teenager who was planning violence at her high school because her parents alerted them to her plan. The Frederick County Sheriff’s Office identified the 18-year-old Catoctin High School student as Nichole Cevario and said she was transferred to a hospital for emergency…
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Innocent Man in Los Angeles Freed After Serving 20 Years for Attempted Murder
File this under “Our messed-up justice system just righted an incredible wrong”: A man who spent 20 years behind bars for a gas station shooting he didn’t commit was freed Tuesday by a Los Angeles County judge. Marco Contreras, 41, was convicted in 1997 of attempted robbery and attempted murder for a 1996 shooting at…
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Bill O’Reilly Just Came for Maxine Waters’ Hair: I Can’t Hear a Word She Said With That ‘James Brown Wig’
Updated Tuesday, March 28, 2017, 4:45 p.m. EDT: Unlike the president and House Intelligence Committee Chair Devin Nunes, Bill O’Reilly can admit when he’s made a mistake. On Tuesday he tweeted out an apology of sorts after he made fun of Maxine Waters’ hair. “As I have said many times, I respect Congresswoman Maxine Waters…
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Fla. Woman Gets 10 Years for ‘Toxic Tush’ Injections That Left Women Sick, Disfigured or Dead
A Florida woman was sentenced to 10 years in prison and five years’ probation after pleading no contest to illegally injecting toxic substances into women’s backsides and causing illness, disfigurement and even death. Oneal Ron Morris also pleaded no contest to a manslaughter charge after one of her illegal procedures led to the death of…
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President Pee-Pee Won’t Be Throwing the 1st Pitch on Opening Day Because He Has Tiny Fingers and Hates America
If you ever had any doubt that President Vladimir TrumPutin was an un-American shit bag, look no further: The deal-maker who has made no deals since riding Russia’s wave into the White House has turned down the Washington Nationals’ offer to throw out the first pitch on opening day. The good people over at Sporting…
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Why Is the Justice Department Trying to Silence Sally Yates?
Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates was supposed to testify before the House Intelligence Committee about the obvious connection between President Vladimir TrumPutin’s campaign staff and Russian officials—that is, until, her attorney claims, the Justice Department applied the brakes. Yates’ lawyer, David O’Neil, accused the Justice Department of trying to silence Yates, who served as…
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No Surprises in Uber’s 1st Diversity Report: Tech Company Is Mostly White and Male but Promises to Work on That
Uber is a tech company, and like most tech companies, it’s mostly white and mostly male. This is what the transportation-network company’s first diversity report reveals, in news that is perhaps shocking to none. The report, which was released on the company’s website Tuesday afternoon, shows pretty much what anyone would expect, except perhaps, in…
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Even Devin Nunes Knows It’s Time to Recuse Himself
It’s time for House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes to recuse himself from this investigation. He knows that. He’s compromised himself too much to be even remotely impartial, if that was ever going to happen. Nunes was part of President Pee Pee’s transition team, so the idea that he could lead an investigation into whether…
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Ahmed Kathrada, South African Anti-Apartheid Activist, Dies at 87
Ahmed Kathrada—one of South Africa’s iconic anti-apartheid activists and a close confidant of the late Nelson Mandela—died in Johannesburg Tuesday morning. He was 87 years old. According to the Associated Press, Kathrada, known fondly as Kathy to just about everyone, died after being admitted to a hospital with blood-clotting in his brain earlier this month.…
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‘White Power,’ Swastikas Spray-Painted on Ariz. High School
And so we’re here again. Another day, another racist incident at some high school across the nation. This time, staff and students discovered racist graffiti painted on school grounds at the Pinnacle High School in Phoenix over the weekend, sparking a police investigation. The graffiti, which was mostly centered on the outside of the school’s…