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Flint, Mich., Residents Seek $700,000,000 From EPA for Handling of Water Crisis
As Flint, Mich., still struggles with the aftermath of the water crisis due to lead-tainted water, more than 1,700 residents and property owners have come forward seeking more than $700 million in damages from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for its handling of the crisis, the Associated Press reports. According to the report, the EPA…
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Ex- NBA Guard Derek Fisher Can’t Stop Taking Losses
Derek Fisher now has more losses than his former team the New York Knicks. Since leaving the NBA, the former guard has been fired as head coach of the Knicks and been beaten up by the world’s skinniest bully, Matt Barnes. Now all five of his championship rings—the rings he earned playing Kobe and Shaq…
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Education Secretary Nominee Betsy DeVos Is a Plagiarizing Machine; Still Passes Senate Committee
The appointed apples fall not far from the corrupt presidential tree. Betsy DeVos—you know, the woman President Executive Order pegged to be the education secretary—looks to have plagiarized at least two of her answers on her Senate-committee take-home exam. Yet the nomination of the controversial billionaire who never attended a public school in her life…
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Fla. Pastor Forced to Flee Naked After Man Comes Home to Find Him With Wife
A popular Tallahassee, Fla., pastor was reportedly forced to run away naked after a husband came home early from work to find him having sex with the man’s wife. Stay with me. I know this sounds like a TV drama, but this really happened to popular pastor O. Jermaine Simmons earlier this month. According to…
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SC Restaurant Explains Help Wanted Sign That Read ‘Minorities Need Not Apply’
It was reportedly all a matter of miscommunication that led to a stir in Spartanburg, S.C., after a picture was taken at a restaurant of a help wanted sign that also declared “minorities need not apply,” WXII 12 reports. The sign, which had the discriminatory caveat in English and Spanish, was placed on the front…
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Police Use Mace on Anti-Trump Protesters in Columbus, Ohio
A Monday-evening protest in downtown Columbus, Ohio, was abruptly ended after police used mace on the demonstrators who were apparently blocking traffic, WBNS reports. According to the news station, the Columbus chapter of Socialist Alternative announced the rally on its Facebook page, saying that it was protesting President Donald Trump’s policies on everything from immigration…
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The New Mr. Clean Is a Black Man
Bald head? Check. Single gold hoop? Check. A smile that would put the most expensive veneers to shame? Check. A white dude? No check. Procter & Gamble has decided to give Mr. Clean a makeover, and his name is Mike Jackson. Jackson beat out thousands of would-be hopefuls who were vying to be the new…
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African Union Rebukes US for ‘Taking Many of Our People as Slaves’ but Not Refugees
On the heels of Donald Trump’s controversial executive order on immigration and refugees and a weekend filled with confusion and airport delays as travelers tried to make it back into the country, the head of the African Union has criticized the widely condemned ban on immigration from some Muslim-majority countries, saying that it presents “one…
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On Eve of Controversial Sessions Confirmation Vote, 30 Arrested in NAACP Action in Ala.
Hours after a municipal prosecutor in Mobile, Ala., dropped all trespassing charges against the NAACP officials and supporters who occupied the office of U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) earlier this month, a group of protesters occupied his office again Monday in advance of Tuesday’s controversial vote to confirm him as U.S. attorney general. Monday’s planned…