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More Than 870 Dead in Haiti After Hurricane Matthew
The island nation of Haiti has been hit by yet another natural disaster, this time Hurricane Matthew, which at press time has claimed 877 lives, according to The Independent. The death toll is unfortunately expected to rise as numbers from rural and mountainous areas continue to come in and waters recede. Most of the damage…
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Clown Gets Beat Up When He Tries to Scare A Group of Friends
A creepy clown received a bad beating after he tried to scare a group of friends in their car, as reported by Daily Mail. Video footage was released of the incident where the the clown approaches the car holding balloons. One of the men in the car yells, “Get away!” at the clown, yet the clown…
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Cops Raid 81-Year-Old Mass. Woman's Garden for 1 Marijuana Plant
Margaret Holcomb is an 81-year-old woman from Amherst, Mass., who suffers from typical ailments of old age: glaucoma, arthritis and insomnia. Because of the difficulty in obtaining a medical-marijuana card and the cost of traveling to a dispensary in the next town to obtain marijuana, she decided to grow her own plant in her garden,…
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Video Shows Donald Trump Having Lewd Conversation About Women in 2005
A 2005 video obtained by the Washington Post shows Donald Trump having a sexist, lewd conversation about women on a hot mic while riding a bus to a soap opera appearance. In the video, Trump and Billy Bush, then of Access Hollywood, are riding a bus with the show’s logo on the side to the…
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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…