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GOP Donors Pushing for an Independent Candidate to Stop Trump, and You Won’t Believe Who It Is
With Donald Trump looking as if he’ll be the Republican nominee for president, a group of Republican donors asked a Florida-based GOP firm to look for a possible candidate who could make an independent push to unseat both Trump and the eventual Democratic nominee. Data Targeting, the firm hired to research a potential independent solution,…
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6 Killed—Including a Pregnant Woman—in a Backyard Massacre Near Pittsburgh
A heinous massacre in a suburb of Pittsburgh left six dead Wednesday. The Allegheny County prosecutor has described it as execution-style. “The murders were planned, calculated, brutal,” said District Attorney Stephen Zappala to NBC News of the shootings, which happened in Wilkinsburg, a town of about 15,000 just east of Pittsburgh. “They were all head shots,”…
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Ben Carson to Endorse Donald Trump: Report
Ben Carson plans to endorse Donald Trump on Friday morning, according to a report by the Washington Post, citing two anonymous sources. The outlet reports that the endorsement was finalized Thursday morning when Carson met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago, the Palm Beach, Fla., luxury club owned by the Republican front-runner. According to sources, Carson has…
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Ammon Bundy and Crew Face New Federal Charges After Armed Occupation in Ore.
Ammon Bundy and other members of the armed militia that took over a U.S. wildlife refuge in Oregon have been slapped with new federal charges, including carrying firearms into federal property and stealing and damaging government property, Reuters reports. According to the report, the new indictment supersedes an earlier indictment in the case in which…
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Armed Man Tries to Rob Taxi in Pa. With Police Car Behind Him
A terrified taxi driver got a lucky break when an unobservant armed man tried to rob him while a police car was right behind the cab, Fox 43 reports. According to the report, Berks County, Pa., Deputy Sheriff Terry Ely became suspicious after noticing that the taxi did not move as the traffic light turned…
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Trump Watch: Video Catches Donald Trump Supporter Sucker Punching Black Protester at NC Rally
During a Donald Trump rally Wednesday night in Fayetteville, N.C., several black protesters were being escorted out of the building to boos and racial slurs when one Trump supporter walked into the path of one of the men and punched him in the face. Plot twist: The victim—that’s right, the one who has been assaulted—was…
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Discrimination Linked to High Stress Levels, Poor Health: Study
A staggering number of Americans say that they face discrimination at work, from the police or in other situations that can be linked back to stress and poor health, according to a study released Thursday by the American Psychological Association, USA Today reports. The study, based on a survey of 3,361 adults last August by…
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Video: Brawl Breaks Out After 2 Women Reportedly Tried to Turn Spirit Airlines Flight Into Soul Plane
Two passengers who “appeared to be intoxicated” aboard a cross-country Spirit Airlines fight took out a boom box and began playing music loudly, according to a Spirit Airlines statement. When passengers asked the women to lower the music, an all-out brawl broke out. According to NBC News, the incident took place on the Baltimore-to-Los Angeles…
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Wis. Woman Sought in Shooting Death of Pregnant Woman and Unborn Child in Dispute Over Loud Music
Wisconsin police are looking for a 24-year-old woman who is alleged to have shot and killed a pregnant woman after an argument over loud music. According to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, early Sunday morning, Shanika S. Minor confronted Tamecca A. Perry, 23, who was 39-40 weeks pregnant, over music coming from her apartment. The two argued,…
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Photo of Baltimore Teen Praying Over Homeless Man Goes Viral
Eric Gaines, a police officer at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, was waiting for a bus when he spotted a teen standing near a sleeping homeless man. Many people had passed the homeless man, who, Gaines said, is familiar to the area. But the teenager “walked over to him and just knelt down and put…