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#NoDAPL: ND Governor Issues Executive Order for Evacuation of Resistance Camp
Just days after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers told water protectors that they had to vacate the #NoDAPL campsite by Dec. 5 or risk being arrested for trespassing, the governor of North Dakota issued an executive order Monday calling for the emergency evacuation of the area. Gov. Jack Dalrymple, a Republican, signed Executive Order…
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Airline Passenger Whose Trump Rant Was Caught on Video Banned by Delta for Life
An airline passenger whose pro-Trump rant on board a flight earlier this month was caught on video has been banned from flying Delta Air Lines for life, the airline’s chief executive told employees in a memo Monday. The man was on a Nov. 22 flight from Atlanta to Allentown, Pa., when he began shouting his…
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1 Killed, 3 Injured in Shooting at South Texas Grocery Store
Three employees at a H-E-B grocery store in South Texas were injured and another was killed after a co-worker allegedly opened fire on them early Monday morning. Police say that at around 3:15 a.m., 25-year-old Raul Lopez allegedly fired 15 shots at the break-room window of an H-E-B store in Palmview, Texas, about 10 miles…
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Betsy DeVos, Religion and Taxpayer Dollars for Private School Education
President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday that billionaire philanthropist Betsy DeVos was his choice for education secretary. DeVos, a conservative activist, has no professional experience in schools, and she is known politically for pushing private school voucher programs—which, as the Washington Post describes, is a controversial position within public school circles. DeVos has spent millions of…
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Veteran Denied Chili’s Discount Moves Out of Home Because of Threats
Ernest Walker has moved his family out of their Ovilla, Texas, home because of racially charged threats he’s reportedly received, according to WFAA-TV. This is reportedly not the first time the U.S. Army veteran was disrespected. He received an apology from Chili’s restaurant after getting denied a free meal on Veteran’s Day. According to WFAA,…
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Somali-American Teen Participates in Pageant Wearing Hijab, Burkini
Halima Aden, 19, became the first Somali American to participate in the Miss Minnesota USA competition, ABC 7 Chicago reports. She competed in the pageant over the weekend in a hijab and a burkini, a bathing suit covering everything but her feet, hands and face. Aden was born in a Kenyan refugee camp and lived…
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Police Looking for Broadway Pickpocket Targeting Hamilton Audience
While standing in line in New York City to meet the cast of Hamilton, the hottest show on Broadway, you may want to watch your pockets because a woman has reportedly been targeting the hit show to nab the wallets of unsuspecting out-of-towners. According to the New York Daily News, the thief started her spree…
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Dylann Roof to Represent Himself at Trial
Last week, Dylann Roof, the man accused of killing nine African-American parishioners at Charleston, S.C.’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in June 2015, was declared mentally competent to stand trial. On Monday, Roof was granted permission to represent himself at trial before the prospective jurors in his case were brought into the courtroom, WISTV reports. U.S. District…
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Ohio State University Suspect Shot and Killed; 10 Injured in Campus Attack
Updated Monday, Nov. 28, 2016, 8:46 p.m. EST: The suspect in the Ohio State University attack has been identified as 20-year-old Abdul Razak Ali Artan, a logistics-management major in the College of Business at Ohio State, the Columbus Dispatch reports. The officer who shot and killed Artan has been identified as Ohio State University Police Officer Alan…
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Minn. Bus Driver Uses Racial Slurs Before Kicking Kids Off Bus, Stranding Them
A Minnesota bus driver hurled racial slurs at a bunch of middle school students before forcing them off the bus and leaving them stranded in an industrial park in Moorhead, Minn. Horizon Middle School student DeShanna Dotson told WDAY that the bus driver left her and about 20 students on a street around 4:15 p.m. Tuesday.…