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Sheriff's Deputy Shot and Killed at Texas Gas Station
Sheriff’s Deputy Darren Goforth, 47, was fatally shot multiple times on Friday evening while filling up his patrol car at a gas station in suburban Houston, Texas. A manhunt for the suspect, who...
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Three Al Jazeera Journalists Sentenced to Three Years in Prison in Egypt
On Saturday, an Egyptian judge sentenced three Al Jazeera English journalists—Mohamed Fahmy, Baher Mohamed, and Peter Greste—to at least three years in prison on trumped up charges that have been the...
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Kylie Jenner and Tyga Have No Regard For the Law or Environment
As you might have heard, California is in a kind of permanent drought and counties across the state are trying to reduce their water usage. Yet celebrities seem deeply uninterested in environmental...
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Black Man With History of Mental Illness Found Dead in Virginia Jail Cell
Last Wednesday, Jamycheal Mitchell, who had a history of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, was found dead in his Portsmouth, Virginia, jail cell after spending four months behind bars without bail...
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KY Clerk Refusing to Issue Gay Marriage Licenses Will Take Case to Supreme Court
Kim Davis, the Kentucky County Court clerk who has persistently refused to issue gay marriage licenses, has asked the Supreme Court to hear her case. Davis, an Apostolic Christian, has refused to issue...
View ArticleThe Times’ Michael Wilson has a great piece on psychics who’ve been convicted...
The Times’ Michael Wilson has a great piece on psychics who’ve been convicted of crimes going before parole boards and coming clean about their practices: “‘You don’t think there’s any legitimate...
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French Novel Scarlett Johannson Tried to Have Banned Will Be Published in...
A steamy French novel featuring a Scarlett Johannson look-alike (haha, hmm), which Johannson herself sued to prevent from being translated into English, will be published in the United Kingdom next...
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Results Of Baylor Investigation: We Need Another Investigation
In reaction to one of its football players being convicted of sexually assaulting another student, Baylor announced it would investigate “the circumstances associated with this case.” Merely a week...
View Article“Bradford does not clearly name his academic opponents, instead using the...
“Bradford does not clearly name his academic opponents, instead using the neologistic acronym CLOACA, for ‘critical law of armed conflict academy’ to describe them. (In nature, ‘cloaca’ is also the...
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Troubled Water: What I Learned Teaching Hurricane Katrina in the Classroom
I began teaching in the Social Work Department at North Carolina State University in 2011. As a faculty member teaching the anti-oppression social justice course, I sought to use the lessons of...
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Ferguson's Most Visible Oath Keeper Just Quit and Started a Splinter Group
The Oath Keepers in Ferguson just lost their highest-profile member. Sam Andrews, who led armed members of the militia-style group into protests following Michael Brown’s death and its one-year...
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Bystander Shot and Killed During Undercover NYPD Weapons Sting Gone Awry
A bystander accidentally shot by an undercover officer with the New York City Police Department during a botched firearms sting has died, police said on Saturday.The man was identified as Felix Kumi,...
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Elders Threaten Gang Rape of Two Indian Women as Punishment
On July 30, 23-year old Meenakshi Kumari and her 15-year-old sister were sentenced to be gang-raped by a group of village elders in the Baghpat district. The sisters weren’t convicted of any crimes,...
View ArticleThe battle for the soul of the Hamptons: “‘We have to find positive ways to...
The battle for the soul of the Hamptons: “‘We have to find positive ways to move forward and reclaim our Montauk,’ said Diane Hausman, chairwoman of Montauk’s advisory committee to the town board....
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Tropical Storm Erika Croaks, But Heavy Rain Is Still Possible in Florida
Remember Erika? The mountains of Hispaniola and Cuba tore it to bits, and the National Hurricane Center declared it dead at 9:30 this morning. All that tropical moisture has to go somewhere, though,...
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Seamless Is Down and People Are Freaking Out
At this very moment, all around New York City, grown, adult humans are gathered around empty plates, clutching morsel-less silverware and hurling epithets at a faceless brand on Twiter. The only sound:...
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Famed Neuroscientist and Author Oliver Sacks Dies at 82
Oliver Sacks, the neurologist and author whose books and case histories in the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books introduced a lay audience to the furthest corners of human consciousness, died...
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Twitter Refuses James Woods' Request to Name User Who Called Him "Cocaine...
Actor James Woods loves drama. Early last month, he filed a $10 million lawsuit against some guy on Twitter for calling him “a cocaine addict.” Subsequently, his attorneys subpoenaed Twitter to unmask...
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Braves Fan Dies After Falling From Turner Field Upper Deck
On Saturday night, a man at Turner Field fell from the upper deck during the seventh inning of the Atlanta Braves 3-1 loss to the New York Yankees. He was transferred to the Grady Memorial Hospital and...
View Article“I look up and see Miley Cyrus on a video screen, marching in a raunchy,...
“I look up and see Miley Cyrus on a video screen, marching in a raunchy, high-cut leotard. I figure if she can be half-naked in Times Square, then I can, too.” A New York Post reporter goes undercover,...
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