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Ben Carson Tells Supporters There Is No ‘Path Forward’ After Trouble-Ridden Campaign
It seems that Ben Carson’s run for president is all but over. On Wednesday the retired neurosurgeon announced to his supporters that he does not see a “path forward” and will not be attending Thursday’s debate in Detroit, the Washington Post reports. According to two Republican sources familiar with Carson’s plans, however, he will not…
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Baltimore City School Officials Investigating Video Showing Cop Slapping Young Man
The head of the Baltimore City Public School Police Force, Marshall Goodwin, was placed on administrative leave, and two officers were reassigned, after video started circulating of an officer repeatedly hitting and kicking a young man, CBS Baltimore reports. The profanity-laced incident at Reach! Partnership High School has left viewers of the footage outraged and in…
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DC Family Says Grandmother’s Body Is Missing After Finding Another Woman in Her Casket
A Washington, D.C., family are hoping that they can still have a proper burial for their beloved grandmother after finding a different deceased woman in her casket when they arrived at her viewing, NBC Washington reports. “I saw the body of another female that wasn’t my grandmother,” Tawana Murphy told the news station. “My heart…
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Trump Watch: Young Black Woman Assaulted at Ky. Rally
It’s clear that Donald Trump and his followers are willing to resort to violence to “Make America great again.” During his Super Tuesday rally in Louisville, Ky., Trump stopped his speech to demand that a young black protester be thrown out. Not ones to ignore the calling of their commander, supporters of Trump began shouting…
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San Antonio Officer Who Fatally Shot Unarmed Man Suspended Indefinitely
The San Antonio police officer who claimed that he feared for his life when he shot and killed an unarmed man has been placed on indefinite suspension. According to the Associated Press, Police Officer John Lee has been issued an “indefinite suspension for placing himself unnecessarily in a tactical situation wherein he felt compelled to…
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Obama Meets With Republican Leaders Over Scalia’s Supreme Court Seat
On Tuesday, President Barack Obama met unsuccessfully with Republican leaders about choosing a nominee for the Supreme Court seat left vacant by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia Feb. 13. Obama, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid met in the Oval Office for less than…
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Congressional Republicans Vote Against Naming Post Office After Maya Angelou
On Tuesday, when Congress took on the rather routine task of naming a post office after icon, writer, activist and poet Maya Angelou, nine members saw fit to vote against the mostly symbolic measure. Mind you, this is a woman who already has a postage stamp with her likeness on it. NBC News reports that…
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4 Miss. Men Ordered to Pay $840,000 for Brutal, Racially Charged Killing of Black Man
On Monday, four white men were ordered by a federal judge in Mississippi to pay $840,000 in restitution to the estate of James Craig Anderson, a black man who died as a result of their racially charged cruelty, the Washington Post reports. Deryl Dedmon, 23; John Rice, 23; Dylan Butler, 24; and William Montgomery, 26,…
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Louis Farrakhan on Donald Trump: ‘I Like What I’m Looking At’
Politics can make strange bedfellows, with Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan finding a commonality in Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump. Trump “is the only member who has stood in front of the Jewish community and said, ‘I don’t want your money,’” Farrakhan said during a weekend sermon, Politico reports. “Any time a man…
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Police Shooting in Utah Triggers Protests
Protesters took to the streets Monday night after police shot and seriously injured a 17-year-old Somali refugee in Salt Lake City, the Associated Press reports. Abdi Mohamed, who immigrated to the U.S. with his family in 2004, was reportedly shot twice in the torso as officers intervened as he and another person allegedly attacked a…