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GUNZ! Parents indicted after son fired gun at school

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The parents of a Rio Rancho teen accused of firing a gun in a local high school have been indicted on one count each of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, MORE

Trump administration is looking at ending birthright citizenship ‘very seriously’

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Wednesday, Trump told reporters his administration is looking ‘very seriously’ at ending birthright citizenship. “We’re looking at that very seriously. Birthright citizenship, where you have a baby on our land — walk over the border, MORE

Migrant Families Would Face Indefinite Detention Under New Trump Rule

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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration unveiled a regulation on Wednesday that would allow it to detain indefinitely migrant families who cross the border illegally, replacing a decades-old court agreement that limited how long the government could hold migrant children in custody and mandated the level of care they must receive. MORE

UPDATE: Jennifer Horn of the Log Cabin Republicans resigns

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Faced with having to explain to her children why her GOP organization, the Log Cabin Republicans, endorsed Trump for election, Jennifer Horn decided to resign instead. Last week, the Log Cabin Republicans wrote and OpEd MORE

Day 943 of Trump: same crap, different day

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In a failed attempt to shame Jews who support the Democratic Party and vote for Democratic candidates, Trump said American Jewish people show “either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty.” After spewing his MORE

Florida Man Met Another Guy On A Eunuch Fetish Site Then Castrated Him!

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A Florida man has been arrested for allegedly performing a botched castration surgery on another man he’d met online through a fetish website for eunuchs, authorities said Tuesday. Police were dispatched to the address after MORE

Wing Nut Watch: The attacks on Reps. Omar and Tlaib continue

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Qanta Ahmed, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, appeared on Laura Ingraham’s Fox ‘News’ show and escalated the recent attacks on “Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN) over their planned visit MORE

Three more NRA officials have reportedly stepped down

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BY CHRIS MILLS RODRIGO – 08/20/19 01:15 PM EDT Three more officials have reportedly stepped down from the National Rifle Association (NRA) amid a spending controversy that continues to roil the gun rights lobbying group. CNN reported Tuesday that country singer MORE

U.S. Steel to layoff around 200 workers in Michigan

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Despite Trump’s claims that the US steel industry is “thriving” under his presidency, United States Steel Corp plans to layoff nearly 200 workers at their Great Lakes facility in Michigan. A company spokeswoman told Reuters, MORE

Four tons of marijuana seized in a shipment of jalapeños

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At the Otay Mesa cargo facility in San Diego, CA, authorities seized nearly four tons of marijuana in a shipment of jalapeño peppers. The marijuana was valued at approximately $2.3 million dollars. Otay Mesa Port MORE

Trump has a new excuse if he loses the Popular Vote again: Blame Google

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After draining his brain on Fox ‘News,” Trump retweeted debunked research Robert Epstein presented to the Senate last month. The Washington Post reports that Epstein’s research “suggested Google had given millions of votes to Trump’s MORE

Leonard Pitts Jr. on White People Visiting Southern Plantations

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In his latest article, Leonard Pitts Jr. discusses “white fragility;” a term coined by sociologist Robin DiAngelo to explain why white people sometimes find it hard to discuss race and how the subject tends to MORE

Officer in ‘I Can’t Breathe’ Chokehold Was ‘Untruthful,’ Judge Says

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When internal affairs investigators asked Officer Daniel Pantaleo in 2014 to define a chokehold, he described a scenario where “you use your forearm, grasped with the other hand, and you pull back with your forearm MORE

As mass shootings rise, experts say high-capacity magazines should be the focus

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It took a shooter all of 32 seconds to spray 41 rounds outside a popular bar in Dayton, Ohio, this month, an attack that killed nine people and injured 27. A lightning-fast response from nearby MORE

Ohio White Supremacist arrested for threats to Jewish Community Center

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James Reardon Jr. of Struthers, Ohio will be arraigned today in Struthers Municipal Court on charges of telephone communication harassment and aggravated menacing. Reardon, a self-proclaimed White Supremacist, attended the deadly Unite the Right rally MORE