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New Emails Reveal White House and State Department Coordinated During Clinton Email Scandal
Newly released emails show that the White House and the State Department coordinated in 2015 to avoid controversy related to the Hillary Clinton email server scandal, the Wall Street Journal reports, according to The Hill. The Republican National Committee submitted a Freedom of Information Act request that yielded email exchanges from within the Obama administration that…
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Chicago Police Department Proposes New Use-of-Force Policy
Details of a new policy requiring Chicago police officers to use the least amount of force necessary and emphasizing “the sanctity of life” were released Friday by Chicago’s top cop. ABC News reports that Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson told reporters at a news conference that the draft aims to “clarify response options to officers during…
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Donald Trump Still Believes Central Park Five Are Guilty
Donald Trump continues to prove what a misguided and miserable president he would make after insisting that the Central Park Five were guilty, despite their being exonerated by DNA in New York City’s horrific 1989 Central Park jogger rape case. “They admitted they were guilty,” Trump said to CNN in a statement. “The police doing…
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Police Search for 15-Year-Old Mom and Infant Son Who Vanished From NYC Group Home
Early Wednesday morning, Shantay Howington, 15, and her 2-month-old son, Demontae, vanished from a Brooklyn, N.Y., group home, the New York Daily News reports. Police say that mother and son were last seen around 3:15 a.m. Wednesday at the group home in the New York City borough’s Crown Heights neighborhood. Authorities say the mother has…
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Watch: Anchorman Has No Chill in Hurricane Prediction: 'You and Everyone You Know Will Die'
Fox News anchorman Shepard Smith has run out of ways to tell Floridians to evacuate Florida. During a broadcast Thursday, the veteran broadcaster noted that if Hurricane Matthew changed course, many would die. “This moves 20 miles to the west, and you and everyone you know are dead—all of you—because you can’t survive it,” Smith…
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CEO of Backpage Arrested on Sex-Trafficking Charges
Carl Ferrer, CEO of Backpage.com, was arrested after he arrived in Houston from Amsterdam on Thursday. “Backpage.com seems to have knowingly and willingly allowed women and children to be exploited for its own financial gain,” said Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, CBSDFW reports. A money-laundering search warrant was executed Thursday afternoon at the company’s headquarters in…
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Report: Pregnant Memphis, Tenn., Woman Pepper-Sprayed by Security Guard
A pregnant Memphis, Tenn., woman says she was pepper-sprayed and thrown to the ground by an apartment-complex security guard. According to Fox 13 Memphis, the woman, Camri Denton, who says she is two to three months pregnant, and her family were helping their mom, whose Bent Tree apartment had caught fire. Denton told the news station…
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Why Hip-Hop Is Dead, Reason No. 435: Watch Calif. Congresswoman Dab During Debate
I hate hip-hop dances and the new “All lives matter” Cam Newton, and I blame both of them for what happened Wednesday evening, when a California Senate race between Democrats Kamala Harris and Loretta Sanchez included the dab. Sanchez, a congresswoman who represents California’s 46th District, was over her time when the moderator let her…
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Va. Officer Found Not Guilty in Shooting Death of Mentally Ill Man
A Norfolk, Va., police officer has been found not guilty of manslaughter in the June 2014 shooting of a mentally ill black man, even though other officers testified that the man was not a threat at the time he was fatally shot, the Virginia-Pilot reports. According to the Daily Mail, 35-year-old David Latham suffered from…
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Black Women Are Still More Likely to Die From Breast Cancer
According to a recent study (pdf), black women are more likely than white women to die from breast cancer. The study, conducted by Mark Hurlbert, chief mission officer at the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, and Bijou Hunt, an epidemiologist at the Sinai Urban Health Institute, was conducted over the last decade and analyzed breast-cancer mortality…