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Patrol Car of Slain Orlando, Fla., Officer Vandalized
The patrol car that Orlando, Fla., Police Lt. Debra Clayton was driving before she was gunned down while trying to capture an accused murderer has been vandalized, the Orlando Police Department has revealed, according to the Orlando Sentinel. Clayton’s patrol car has been parked outside police headquarters since her shooting death Jan. 9, with mourners…
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Gregg Popovich Just Maxine Water’d President Trump
Don’t ask San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich anything about Donald Trump or this election or the state of affairs of this country if you aren’t ready to hear the real. Before the Spurs took on the Cleveland Cavaliers on Saturday night, Pop was asked his thoughts about the women’s marches that were happening around…
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Supreme Court Declines to Hear Texas Appeal to Revive Strict Voter-ID Requirements
Score 1 for voting-rights advocates. On Monday the Supreme Court of the United States refused to hear an appeal by Texas that sought to bring back the state’s strict voter-identification requirements, which had been found to disproportionately affect minorities, Reuters reports. In July 2016, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the 2011…
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Trump Makes Good On Promise to Nix Trans-Pacific Partnership
President Donald Trump didn’t waste any time fulfilling his campaign promise to remove the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). On Monday sources confirmed to CNN that the newly minted president plans to sign an executive order to do just that. Although the TPP was a bipartisan trade agreement that planned to promote economic…
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British Cops Tase Their Race-Relations Adviser, Thinking He Was Robbery Suspect
Bristol, England, resident Judah Adunbi has spent the better half of a decade working to improve the relationship between police in southwestern England and members of the Afro-Caribbean community, the Washington Post reports. Despite all his work and his outreach, however, the 63-year-old became the target of police earlier this month during an incident that…
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The Steelers’ Antonio Brown Signs Deal With Facebook, May Explain His Crazy Facebook Live Post
So you know that Facebook Live stream in which NFL wide receiver Antonio Brown showed the innards of his Pittsburgh Steelers’ team’s locker room, where coach Mike Tomlin went off during a postgame rant? Well, maybe Brown wasn’t just caught up in the excitement of the win. And maybe the generous baller is going to…
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Trump, Butt-Hurt Over the Size of His … Inauguration Crowd, Lies About It (So Does His Whole Team)
Donald Trump and his squad remind me of that old ’90s classic by En Vogue. The hook goes something like this: “Lies. Lies. Using lies as alibis. Lies. Lies. Just the devil in disguise.” After vilifying the intelligence community after it reported that Russia definitively hacked the U.S. elections in his favor, President Donald Trump…
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Women’s March: Massive Crowds Take Over DC and Cities Around the Country
Singer-actress Janelle Monáe said a prayer with her fellow performers before taking the stage to raucous cheers at Saturday’s Women’s March, which drew a gargantuan crowd that packed the National Mall from the streets east of the U.S. Capitol all the way west past 17th Street. “I want to remind you that it was woman…
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Tornado Rips Through Southern Mississippi, Killing 4
A deadly storm ripped through southern Mississippi early Saturday, killing four people and flattening dozens of homes and businesses, according to the Associated Press. The death toll is expected to rise. The city of Hattiesburg confirmed the deaths via its Twitter account. The city also said that firefighters and police are going door-to-door to try…
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Trump’s 1st Executive Order Sounds Death Knell for Obamacare
Donald Trump’s very first executive order as president promised “to seek the prompt repeal” of the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama’s signature health care law. Within hours of assuming the office of the presidency Friday—between his swearing-in and before leaving for his inaugural balls—Trump signed the executive order, which did not give specifics on…