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Chicago Woman Charged With Murder After Forcing Boyfriend to Drink Bleach
A Chicago woman has been charged with first-degree murder and is being held on $1 million bond in the death of her boyfriend, whom, police say, she forced to drink bleach during a fight. According to Rolling Out, 24-year-old Yasmine Elder was charged Wednesday in the death of 26-year-old Darrius Ellis after a physical altercation…
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Never-Before-Seen Michael Brown Footage Emerges From the Day of His Death. Police Say It’s ‘Not Relevant’
After 18-year-old Michael Brown was gunned down and left to bake in the middle of a Ferguson, Mo., street on Aug. 9, 2014, police tried to smear his character by releasing a security video allegedly showing Brown participating in a “strong-armed robbery” by pushing a convenience store clerk and taking a box of cigarillos earlier…
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Joni Sledge, of Sister Sledge, Has Died at 60
Joni Sledge, founding member of the group Sister Sledge, most famous for the black family anthem “We Are Family,” has died. She was 60 years old. Sledge was found dead in her home in Phoenix on Friday by a friend. A cause of death has not been determined. Publicist Biff Warren, who confirmed her death,…
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Md. Becomes 5th State to Challenge Trump’s Revised Travel Ban
The “Free State” of Maryland on Friday became the fifth state to join a legal challenge seeking to block the Trump administration’s revised “Muslim ban” in court. More than two dozen lawsuits were issued against the original Jan. 27 travel ban. Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh said his office would formally join a suit filed…
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Muhammad Ali Jr. Detained Again at Airport on Way Back From Testifying About Earlier Detention
The namesake of one of America’s most beloved athletes was detained again at an airport after a meeting on Capitol Hill to talk about a previous airport detention last month. Muhammad Ali Jr., the son of Muhammad Ali, and his mother, Khalilah Camacho-Ali, traveled from Florida to Washington, D.C., on Wednesday to speak to members…
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Trump Administration Calls for Immediate Resignation of 46 Obama Administration US Attorneys
The Trump administration Friday requested the immediate resignation of 46 Obama administration U.S. attorneys, including Preet Bharara, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan. The New York Times reports that the firings came as a surprise, especially for Bharara, who said he was asked about staying on in November…
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House GOP Backing a Bill That Would Allow Your Employer to Require Genetic Testing
While everyone is in an uproar about the repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, another bill is moving through Congress unnoticed, and if passed, it would allow companies to require employees to undergo genetic testing and have access to employee health information. Currently, giving employers that kind of power…
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No, Sir, You Cannot Shoot and Kill a Guy Because He’s Texting During Movie Previews
A Florida judge has denied the request of a retired police officer who fatally shot a man in a movie theater to have the charges against him dismissed under the state’s “Stand your ground” law. NPR reports that 74-year-old Curtis Reeves Jr. was with his wife at a showing of Lone Survivor in Tampa in…
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NC Cops Pull Man Over, Falsely Tell Him It’s Illegal to Film Them. Plot Twist: He’s Attorney and Knows the Law
A criminal-defense attorney in Wilmington, N.C., was pulled over by police recently, and as he began to film his interaction with them on his cellphone, one of the officers falsely told him that there was a new state law that prohibited him from recording the police. Jesse Bright knew there was no such law in…