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LeSean McCoy Wants to Invite Cops to Upcoming Game as a Thank-You
Buffalo Bills running back LeSean McCoy is on his “Can’t we all just get along?” ish. On Wednesday, McCoy told reporters that he planned to bring 15 to 20 police officers to Sunday’s game against the San Francisco 49ers, or their next game, as a thank-you for all the hard work they do. “Just an…
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NFL Players Take Team Owner's Private Jet to Deliver Supplies to Haiti
Washington, D.C., football-team owner Daniel Snyder won’t lose the team’s racist name, but he may not be all bad, since he reportedly encouraged wide receiver Pierre Garcon and teammate Ricky Jean Francois to raid the team’s medical supplies and take his personal jet to bring aid to hurricane victims in Haiti. According to Yahoo! Sports,…
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NYC’s Administration for Children’s Services Suspends 4 Top Officials in Wake of 6-Year-Old’s Death
New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services suspended four of its top officials earlier this week in the wake of the death of a 6-year-old Harlem boy who was covered in bruises, the New York Post reports. According to the report, an ACS assistant commissioner, a borough commissioner and two other officials have been suspended fro…
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Trump Accuser: ‘He Touched Me Wherever He Could Find a Landing Spot’
One of the two women who accused Donald Trump of sexual misconduct in a New York Times on Wednesday said in an interview Thursday that the Republican presidential candidate touched her “wherever he could find a landing spot,” CNN reports. Jessica Leeds, 74, was 38 at the time of her encounter with Trump on a…
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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…