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Donald Trump Calls Most Recent Accusers 'Horrible, Horrible Liars'
A defiant Donald Trump hit the campaign trail in Florida on Thursday, and he lashed out about the most recent accusations of his sexual misconduct, NPR reports. In a 49-minute speech at a West Palm Beach campaign stop, Trump attacked his accusers and blamed his recent run of bad publicity on the “Washington establishment” and the…
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Donald Trump to the New York Times: I'll Sue You. Times to Trump: Do It
Donald Trump threatened the New York Times with a lawsuit Wednesday night after the Times published an article in which two women accused the presidential candidate of forcibly groping and kissing them years ago. As the Times reports, the lawsuit threat comes in the middle of an eventful week for the Trump campaign. On Friday…
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Department of Justice to Begin Collecting Data on Use of Force by Police
The Department of Justice announced Thursday that it will begin collecting data on deadly police encounters nationwide, starting early next year, the New York Times reports. As the report notes, it marks the beginning of the most ambitious effort the federal government has ever made to track police use of force, coming after the nation…
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Houston 911 Operator Faces Charges for Hanging Up on Callers
Crenshanda Williams, a former 911 operator, is facing a misdemeanor charge of emergency interference with a telephone call after admitting to hanging up on callers because she didn’t feel like talking to them, Fox 5 reports. Between October 2015 and March 2016, Williams, 43, was apparently involved in thousands of short calls that lasted no…
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Michelle Obama on Donald Trump’s Sexual Assault Comments: ‘They Have Shaken Me to My Core’
President Obama has “Luther” as his anger translator, and Hillary Clinton has Michelle Obama as her “tell it like it is” translator. During a stop on Clinton’s campaign trail Thursday, the first lady gave a speech that blew away the crowd. Obama’s powerful and emotional speech came down on Donald Trump’s vulgar comments about women…
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#BeingADoctorWhileBlack: Man Almost Denied Care After Flight Attendant Refused to Believe Black Woman Is a Doctor
A Houston OB-GYN’s Facebook post is going viral after she recounted the dismissive racism she encountered on a Delta flight, where a flight attendant refused to believe that she was a doctor and refused to let her aid a man who had become unresponsive. “I’m sure many of my fellow young, corporate America working women…
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Trump to a Group of Young Girls: 'I'm Going to Be Dating Her in 10 Years'
This might be the most disturbing video to come out about Donald Trump yet—and that’s saying a lot, considering recently leaked footage that has the Republican presidential nominee making sexually aggressive comments. Recently released footage of a 1992 Entertainment Tonight Christmas segment shows a then-46-year-old Trump talking to a group of girls going up the escalator…
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Trump Sexual Assault Accuser: 'He Was Like an Octopus; His Hands Were Everywhere'
Since the Washington Post leaked 2005 footage of Donald Trump making sexually aggressive comments about women, several reports have emerged saying that Trump physically assaulted women. According to the New York Times, two women—Jessica Leeds and Rachel Crooks—say that Trump assaulted them. Leeds said she was traveling for business during the 1980s when a stewardess…
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Ky. High School Apologizes After Assignment on the N-Word
A high school in Lexington, Ky., is apologizing after an assignment focused on questions surrounding the use of the n-word, WKYT reports. According to the report, Kiarah Raglin, a freshman at Lafayette High School, was given the assignment in English class last week, prior to fall break. According to school Principal Bryne Jacobs, the assignment…