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Transgender Woman Says She Was Raped at Colorado Men’s Prison
A transgender woman who is currently suing the Colorado Department of Corrections says she was raped in a men’s prison just hours after a federal judge denied her request to stop the prison from keeping her in a disciplinary unit. In July, Lindsay Saunders-Velez, 20, filed a lawsuit calling Colorado’s prisons “discriminatory and dangerous” for…
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Alex Michael Ramos Found Guilty of Malicious Wounding in Charlottesville, Va., Parking Garage Beating of DeAndre Harris
White supremacist Alex Michael Ramos has been found guilty of malicious wounding in the August parking lot beating of DeAndre Harris in Charlottesville, Va. According to WVIR-TV, Ramos, who now faces five to 20 years in prison, was one of several men who were identified thanks to social media during the Unite the Right rally…
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Feds Tapped Longtime Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen’s Phone Weeks Before Raid: Report
President Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen’s phones were tapped weeks before federal investigators executed a search warrant on his office. According to several reports, Cohen, who rose to national infamy after making a reported $130,000 payment to prevent porn actress Stormy Daniels from giving the details surrounding her alleged affair with Trump, had…
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Report: LA Fitness Called the Cops on a Black Man Because He ‘Fit a Profile’
A North Carolina LA Fitness franchise called on the brave police officers who protect and serve (and sometimes shoot black people) after accusing a member of the gym of breaking into lockers and stealing credit cards, only to discover that they had the wrong guy. According to WCNC-TV, Realtor Ralston Masaniai was at the LA…
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Pittsburgh Steelers Pay Injured Linebacker Full Salary for 2018
Last season, many people thought that Ryan Shazier might never walk again. The Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker suffered a horrible neck injury while making a tackle during a Monday-night game against the Cincinnati Bengals in December. Shazier lay on the ground unable to move his legs before being carted off the field. The injury looked so…
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Michelle Obama Just Called Herself Our ‘Forever First Lady.’ No Other First Ladies Need Apply
During a stirring speech delivered to rising college students in Philadelphia on Wednesday, Michelle Obama embraced the moniker “Forever First Lady,” sending the crowd of 8,000 high school students into thunderous cheers. Because, duh. At the 2018 College Signing Day at Temple University, HuffPost reports, Obama delivered a message of encouragement to the high schoolers,…
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Officers Who Used Taser on Naked, Unarmed Mentally Ill Man Didn’t Follow International Guidelines; Still Won’t Be Disciplined
More than a year ago, an international policing agency issued guidelines on how officers should properly use Tasers. In April 2017, the International Association of Chiefs of Police wrote that officers who suspected “excited delirium”—a controversial condition whose symptoms include aggressive or bizarre behavior and paranoia—should “consider the possibility that the situation is a medical…
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Rudy Giuliani Just Gave the Beyoncé Coachella Performance of Interviews. 3 Reasons Why It Was Staged
Rudy Giuliani has been President Donald Trump’s lawyer for less than a week, and he just walked onstage and gave the Beyoncé Coachella performance of his life. On Wednesday night, on Fox News’ Hannity, with Sean Hannity—the Fonzworth Bentley of the Conservative Party—Giuliani Boston Tea Partied all over the floor and pissed all over the…
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Camille Cosby Calls Husband’s Verdict ‘Mob Justice’
Last week, Bill Cosby was found guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent assault during his retrial on sexual assault and drugging charges in Pennsylvania, and the 80-year-old now faces up to 10 years in jail. But in today’s standing-by-her-man news, his wife, Camille Cosby, wrote a three-page statement about the guilty verdict her Quaalude-dropping…