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83-Year-Old Man Attacked, Robbed Outside NYC Senior Center
Ernest McCain, an 83-year-old veteran from Brooklyn, N.Y., was attacked and robbed by another man in his 60s outside a senior center in the New York City borough’s Crown Heights section Monday afternoon, NBC New York reports. McCain said he was leaving the senior center when a stranger came up to him and accused him…
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Flint, Mich., Left Wondering How Trump’s EPA Freeze Will Impact the $100,000,000 It Was Promised in Grant Aid
State officials in Michigan are wondering how the Trump administration’s freeze on Environmental Protection Agency grants and contracts will affect the $100 million in funds already allocated for the Flint water crisis. As previously reported on The Root, within hours of President Donald Trump’s swearing-in Friday, officials at the Environmental Protection Agency were barred from…
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Trump Administration Tells EPA to Freeze All Contracts, Grants; Orders Media Blackout
Within hours of President Donald Trump’s swearing-in Friday, officials at the Environmental Protection Agency were barred from any external communications and instructed to freeze all contracts and grants. The Associated Press has reviewed emails sent to EPA staff since Friday’s inauguration that detail the specific prohibitions on news releases, blog updates or posts to the…
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Ex-Gang Member Who Had His Sentence Commuted by Obama ‘Executed’ in Mich.
A man who was recently released from prison after former President Barack Obama commuted his sentence was killed Monday night when two masked gunmen entered a federal halfway house in Saginaw, Mich., and shot him execution style, police say. Demarlon C. Thomas, 31, was a former member of Saginaw’s Sunny Side Gang who had his…
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Federal Agents Find $20,000,000 Hidden Under a Mattress in Mass.
If you’ve ever wondered just how much money you could get away with hiding under a mattress, federal agents in Massachusetts may have an answer for you. According to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice, approximately $20 million in cash was found hidden inside a box spring at a Westborough, Mass., apartment…
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Retrial Delayed for Ex SC Cop Who Fatally Shot Walter Scott
Justice appears to have been delayed once more. On Tuesday a judge decided to postpone the retrial of former North Charleston, S.C., Police Officer Michael Slager, who is facing murder charges in the shooting death of 50-year-old Walter Scott during a 2015 traffic stop, Reuters reports. The trial is now expected to be delayed until…
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WorldStarHipHop Founder Lee O’Denat Dead at 43
WorldStarHipHop founder Lee O’Denat, better known as “Q,” died in his sleep Monday night, according to TMZ. O’Denat, 43, reportedly died of a heart attack. O’Denat founded the site in 2005, and it quickly became popular as a YouTube-style platform of hip-hop performances, street fights and scantily clad women. It would take almost four years…
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No Evidence of Illegal Voting, but That Doesn’t Stop Trump or Sean ‘Spicy Facts’ Spicer
It’s been two days, just two days, since President Donald Trump took office, and the weird news just keeps coming. On Tuesday, Sean “Spicy Facts” Spicer made it clear that real facts, aka the truth, will not be in play at this White House when he walked out to the podium and continued the myth…
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Flint, Mich., Water-System Lead Levels Are Now Below Federal Limit, Officials Say
The water crisis in Flint, Mich., is far from over, but the Associated Press reports that the city’s water system no longer has levels of lead that grossly exceed the federal limit. Michigan state environmental officials are calling this good news for the city, whose residents are still dealing with the fallout from officials’ negligence.…
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Despite Protests, Trump Revives Pipeline Projects
A day after President Donald Trump signed executive orders to freeze most federal-worker hiring, remove the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership and stop funding of all foreign nongovernmental agencies that perform abortions, he’s given the go-ahead for construction to continue on two controversial pipelines, the Chicago Tribune reports. In only his second day in…