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Mike Pompeo Confirmed as Secretary of State
Central Intelligence Agency Director Mike Pompeo was confirmed by the Senate on Thursday as the 70th secretary of state of the United States. He was Donald Trump’s No. 1 pick to replace Rex Tillerson as the nation’s top diplomat. The New York Times describes Pompeo as “an outspoken foreign policy hawk,” and reports that he…
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Bill Cosby Found Guilty of Aggravated Indecent Assault
On Thursday a jury in Norristown, Pa., that consisted of seven men and five women found Bill Cosby guilty of aggravated indecent assault after 14 hours of deliberation. Cosby was on trial for drugging and sexually assaulting former Temple University employee Andrea Constand in 2004. During the trial, five women testified against the 80-year-old comedian…
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Trump Just Admitted That Michael Cohen Acted on His Behalf When He Paid Off Porn Actress, and Why This Matters
President Donald Trump needs a teleprompter around him at all times, including when he takes the presidential golf cart to his local KFC, because whenever he goes off script, he not only puts his orange-hued foot in his mouth but also risks incriminating himself. This happened Thursday morning during an interview on Fox & Friends,…
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Starbucks Tapped Public Policy, Racial-Justice Organizations to Help With Bias Training, but What Will Change Look Like?
After the arrest of two black men in a Philadelphia Starbucks for simply existing, the ubiquitous coffee chain immediately stepped forward, implementing swift action in a bid to combat racial bias. As part of its initiative to fight discrimination, Starbucks announced that it would close all stores nationwide on May 29 to provide more than…
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Trump’s VA Pick Withdraws Nomination Amid New Allegations He Drunkenly Crashed Government Car
Amid new allegations that Dr. Ronny L. Jackson, President Donald Trump’s embattled pick to run the Department of Veterans Affairs, drunkenly crashed a government-issued vehicle and kept haphazard prescription records, Jackson has withdrawn his name from consideration for the post. “The allegations against me are completely false and fabricated,” Jackson, the White House physician, said…
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#Flint: On This Day 4 Years Ago, the Water Crisis Started. The Water Is Still Not Safe
One thousand, four hundred and sixty-two days. The people of Flint, Mich., have been without clean water in their pipes for 1,462 days. The Flint water crisis began on April 25, 2014. When city business was being overseen by a state emergency manager, the decision was made to switch the city’s water source from the…
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Joy Reid May Be the 1st Celebrity Who Was Actually Hacked, and I Should Probably Be Mad About It
After screenshots of blog posts by Joy Reid surfaced last week, everyone, including me, shot the MSNBC host a healthy dose of side-eye when she explained away homophobic statements from as far back as 2006 by saying that her old blog was hacked. As far as excuses go, “I was hacked” trails only “He’s like…
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White Reporter Stole From Warriors Security and Nothing Happened Until the Players Found Out
A white reporter who covers the Golden State Warriors was caught on tape stealing a security staffer’s jacket. It isn’t debatable; it happened. Several news outlets have seen the tape and confirmed that Mike Shumann, a sports anchor for KGO-TV in San Francisco, picked up the jacket, which didn’t belong to him, and walked out…
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New Study Shows White People Don’t Like Living Near Black People; Captain Obvious Declines Comment
I often contemplate leaving my position as one of the world’s foremost wypipologists and pursuing a career in the lucrative field of studying shit black people already know. If I did switch careers and study No-Shit-Sherlockology, I think I’d excel at wasting time and money researching obvious subjects, like the CNN poll that found that…
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#StephonClark: Grieving Older Brother Charged With Misdemeanor Assault, Vandalism
Following his arrest Thursday in Sacramento, Calif., on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and making death threats, Stevante Clark was officially charged with misdemeanor assault and vandalism on Monday. The 25-year-old was also accused of making criminal threats and abusing a 911 line, according to the Associated Press. Although police were seeking to…