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  • Bill Clinton Bashes Obamacare During Rally, Then Tries to Moonwalk Away From His Statements

    Rule No. 1 when stumping for the next president who happens to be your wife: Don’t criticize the current president’s signature policy, especially when he and his wife are extremely popular and are also stumping for your wife. That’s exactly what Bill Clinton did during a Democratic rally in Flint, Mich., on Monday. In an…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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  • NYC Couple Found Shot to Death in Apartment

    Felicita Sotillo, 38, was found dead with her boyfriend in an apartment in New York City’s borough of Brooklyn early Wednesday morning, the New York Daily News reports. Police are investigating the crime scene as a murder-suicide. They believe that Sotillo’s boyfriend, 41, shot Sotillo in the head before shooting himself. According to the Daily…

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    The Root Staff

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  • Study: African-American Tourism in SC on the Rise Since Removal of Confederate Flag

    A recent study from the University of South Carolina’s Richardson Family SmartState Center of Economic Excellence in Tourism and Economic Development has found that South Carolina’s tourism industry has been booming since the removal of the Confederate battle flag from Statehouse grounds in Columbia, according to the Columbia Regional Business Report. African-American tourists generate $2.4…

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    The Root Staff

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  • Dallas Police Believe Broncos Player Shot Himself in the Leg During Shootout

    Dallas Police believe that Denver Broncos cornerback Aqib Talib may have Plaxico Burress-ed himself. On June 5, Talib was shot in the leg and reportedly told police that he was standing in a park when he was hit. According to TMZ Sports, Talib wasn’t standing in a park but was actually at V Live strip…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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  • Terry Bradshaw: Colin Kaepernick and Others Will 'Pay' for 'Disrespect' of Flag

    Former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw, like most old white men who are both for and against Colin Kaepernick’s protest, confuses me. Recently, Bradshaw appeared on the über-conservative Fox & Friends morning show to note that Kaepernick and others who are protesting police killings of unarmed African-American men, women and children are “disrespecting” the flag…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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  • 3-Year-Old Daughter of Miss. Police Officer Dies After Being Left in Patrol Car

    The Board of Aldermen of the city of Long Beach, Miss., voted unanimously Tuesday to fire two police officers involved in the hot-car death of the 3-year-old daughter of one of the officers, the Sun Herald reports. Initially, the officers were placed on paid leave pending the outcome of an investigation into the death of 3-year-old…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Police in NC Release Full, Graphic Video of Keith Lamont Scott Shooting

    Police in Charlotte-Mecklenburg, N.C., have released the full, graphic body-cam and dashcam footage of the shooting death of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte last month, Reuters reports. According to the report, a lawyer for Scott’s family said that the videos do not support police claims that Scott was holding a gun at the time of his…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Damian Marley Is Turning Calif. Prison Into Pot Farm 

    Damian Marley is turning a California prison that formerly housed nonviolent drug offenders into a cannabis-cultivation facility. Marley, 38, along with his business partner Ocean Grown Extracts, will be converting the 77,000-square-foot Claremont Custody Center into a farm that will grow medicinal marijuana for state dispensaries, Billboard reports. “Many people sacrificed so much for the…

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    Monique Judge

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  • Registered Sex Offender Sues His Sexual Assault Victim for Defamation of Character

    A registered sex offender who pleaded no contest to felony assault and was sentenced to a year in jail sued his victim for defamation of character in a California court. Lang Her, 26, sued Yee Xiong, 24, on the day he was sentenced to one year in jail for assaulting Xiong after a party at…

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    Monique Judge

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  • Flint, Mich., Residents Hit With Bacterial Illness as Water Crisis Continues

    Residents of Flint, Mich., have spent the last year finding creative ways to avoid using the city’s contaminated water supplies in their daily lives, but now a new threat adds an additional complication to an already frustrating situation: an outbreak of shigellosis. The New York Times reports that cases of the bacterial illness, which is…

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    Monique Judge

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