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Federal Magistrate Judge Sides With Transgender Teen in Ill. Bathroom Case
A federal magistrate judge has recommended that a transgender teen be allowed to use the girls’ locker room at her high school. The Washington Post reports that “Student A,” a transgender girl at Fremd High School in Illinois’ Palatine Township, is at the center of a lawsuit brought on by four female students, one male…
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DOJ Proposes Citizens Advisory Commission in North Charleston, S.C.
Seeking to improve relationships between the community and police, a proposal for a citizen’s advisory committee will be presented to North Charleston next month. The U.S. Department of Justice Community Relations Office will present the proposal for the North Charleston Citizen’s Advisory Commission on Community/Police Relations Nov. 4 at Royal Baptist Church in North Charleston,…
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BuzzFeed CEO: I Heard Ivanka Trump Talk About 'Mulatto C–k'
Editor’s note: This post contains a tweet that some may find offensive. Ivanka Trump once told a group of friends drinking in a bar that although she had never seen “a mulatto c—k,” she would like to, BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti alleges. Peretti tweeted that little tidbit in response to a BuzzFeed News report that Ivanka Trump…
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Police Officer Who Killed Walter Scott Wants Change of Venue for Trial
The former North Charleston, S.C., police officer charged in the death of a black motorist is asking the court for a change of venue in his state trial. The Charleston Post and Courier reports that attorneys for Michael Slager filed a motion Tuesday asking the court to move Slager’s state murder trial out of Charleston.…
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Report: Man Grabs and Chokes 4-Month-Old Baby at Wal-Mart
An incident at an Overland Park, Kan., Wal-Mart is under investigation after a woman reported that a strange man walked up to her in the checkout lane and began choking her 4-month-old baby, KTLA reports. A shopper who saw the Wednesday attack tackled the man and held him until police arrived, according to the report. “While I…
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Well, This Is Awkward: Obama's Half Brother to Be Trump's Guest at Wednesday's Debate
First it was Bill Clinton’s accusers; now Donald Trump is bringing President Barack Obama’s half brother, Malik, to the final presidential debate Wednesday. It’s unclear what Trump hopes to accomplish by bringing Obama’s brother, who has dual citizenship and spends most of his time in Kenya and some time in Washington D.C., to the debate,…
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Letter From Calif. Shooting Victim Sent to Family More Than a Decade Later
Aaron Vickers was 19 when he was killed in a drive-by shooting in South Stockton, Calif., in 2002. In 2000 he had written a letter for a school assignment addressed to his future self, and his parents recently received that letter, according to the New York Daily News. Daryl Hutchins, Vickers’ former teacher at Plaza…
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Report: To Avoid Scutiny, Chicago Police Officer Didn’t Shoot Suspect for Beating Her
Parta Huff, 28, was arrested for attacking a female police officer while allegedly high on PCP. Chicago police say that she should have shot the man, but she chose not to because she feared that the shooting would be controversial, CBS News reports. Apparently the incident started when a police officer and her partner witnessed a car crash…
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Jury: Derrick Rose and 2 Friends Did Not Rape Accuser
Updated Wednesday, Oct. 19, 4:40 p.m. EDT: It took a Los Angeles jury only three hours to determine that Derrick Rose and two friends—Randall Hampton and Ryan Allen—had consensual sex with a woman who claimed that the men gang-raped her, according to the Los Angeles Times. Rose and the woman had been in an open…