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EPA Chief Scott ‘All Gold Everything’ Pruitt Is Living His Best Life With Taxpayers’ Money; Morocco Trip Under Scrutiny
Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt is becoming the Kanye West of Donald Trump’s Cabinet, and that’s because he can’t keep his name out of the press. Currently, Pruitt is facing at least 11 federal investigations into his lavish spending and possible kickbacks, including a sweetheart deal that allowed him the use of a Capitol…
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Talented Teen Trumpeter Just Got Into Juilliard, but His Family Needs Help Covering the $71,000 Price Tag
William Leathers was just 12 years old when he met legendary jazz musician Wynton Marsalis. That year, William had become the youngest trumpeter accepted into the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra. After hearing William play, Marsalis went up to William’s teacher and said, “This kid belongs at Juilliard.” Five years later, William has received that coveted…
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Police Say Alabama Creeper Broke Into Home and Stole Women’s Underwear Hours After Attempting Sexual Assault on Another Victim
Tuscaloosa, Ala., police arrested an alleged creeper on the University of Alabama campus early Tuesday morning after reports that someone on campus had attempted to sexually assault a UA student as she was jogging. Police say the young man they apprehended, 19-year-old John Everett Threadgill, himself a University of Alabama student, later broke into another…
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North Carolina Teen Accepted to 113 Colleges and Awarded $4.5 Million in Scholarships Accepts Full Ride to HBCU
When you hear stories about black high school seniors getting into the colleges of their dreams, they’re usually touting Ivy League schools. But Greensboro, N.C., high school senior Jasmine Harrison, who was accepted at 113 colleges and awarded $4.5 million in scholarships, is taking her talents to Bennett College on a full ride to study…
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White Supremacist Jacob Scott Goodwin Guilty in Charlottesville, Va., Parking Garage Attack of DeAndre Harris
A white supremacist is now looking at 10 years behind bars for his role in the Charlottesville, Va., parking lot attack on DeAndre Harris. Jacob Scott Goodwin, 23, of Ward, Ark., was found guilty of malicious wounding in the August attack on 20-year-old Harris. The Associated Press reports that on Tuesday, Goodwin tried to convince…
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#StephonClark: Sacramento County, Calif., Coroner Releases Autopsy Report
On Tuesday afternoon, police released the Sacramento County, Calif., coroner’s official report from the autopsy on 22-year-old Stephon Clark, who was shot by police in his grandmother’s backyard March 18. County Coroner Kimberly Gin disputed the March 30 findings of Dr. Bennet Omalu, the noted pathologist who was hired by the Clark family to conduct…
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#Flint: Mayor Seeks EPA’s Help in Restoring Bottled-Water-Distribution Service
As of Tuesday, the people of Flint, Mich., have been without clean water for 1,468 days. Last week marked the four-year anniversary of the water switch that began the contamination that has left city residents dependent on bottled water and water filters. Earlier this month, the state ended the bottled-water-distribution program, citing testing that showed…
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White Supremacist Gangs Are Getting Busted for Trafficking Drugs, but You Won’t Hear Trump Say Shhhhh … About It
On Monday the Department of Justice announced that it was hitting 57 members of white supremacist gangs with charges of kidnapping and drug conspiracies—the result of a drug-trafficking sting in North Texas. As Newsweek reports, the gang members were members of various groups, including the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, Dirty White Boys and Aryan Circle.…
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Trump’s Goons Stormed Doctor’s Office Just 2 Days After He Claimed He Gave Trump Hair-Growth Meds: Report
Remember President Donald Trump’s New York doctor, the one who looked like a mad scientist and was a gastroenterologist, who wrote a glowing letter in 2015 about Trump’s health and boasted, “If elected, Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency”? Well, now he claims that the…
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Attorney for Former Fort Valley State University Employee and AKA Adviser Says She’s Not a Pimp
A Fort Valley State University employee has resigned amid allegations that she ran a prostitution ring using members of the school’s chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Alecia Johnson resigned last week after an anonymous source told Rolling Out that the AKA adviser and the newest members of the Alpha Beta chapter were involved in…