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Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Obamacare
In a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court voted today to uphold the Affordable Care Act’s (commonly referred to as Obamacare) premium subsidies, staving off for the second time in three years attempts by opponents of the health care act to have it abolished. According to ABC News, “The nation’s highest court ruled that critics’ reading…
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You’re Gonna Learn Today, Obama Tells Heckler: ‘You’re in My House!’
Wednesday evening’s gathering was supposed to be a cordial reception at the White House to honor LGBT Pride Month. But CNN notes that the president was delivering an address about civil rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans when he was abruptly interrupted. The heckler was a Mexican transgender immigrant who repeatedly kept calling the president’s…
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Jackie Robinson West Is Suing the Little League Over a Stripped Championship Title
The Jackie Robinson West All Stars were the darlings of baseball in 2014 after the Chicago-based team stormed through the Little League World Series to score the U.S. championship title. But earlier this year, Little League International stripped the team of the title, claiming that boundary regulations had been violated because suburban kids were playing on the…
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Report: Md. Mom, 24, Arrested After She Left Baby Alone While She Went Drinking
Guests of the American Inn of Bethesda in Maryland thought something was strange Sunday when they began hearing the wails, screams and crying of a baby around 9:30 p.m. They contacted the hotel’s front desk, which went to the room to investigate. When staffers’ knocks went unanswered, they opened the door and found a 1-year-old…
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Kalief Browder Took His Own Life, but the System Murdered Him [Corrected]
Correction, July 26, 2018 11:25 a.m.: Kalief Browder’s bail was $3,000, not $10,000. Earlier: Kalief Browder was murdered, in the first degree. The papers will say that on Saturday, Browder, 22, walked into a room in his home, took the air conditioner out of a wall and hanged himself. But this was a premeditated murder…
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Jalen Rose Leadership Academy’s Entire Inaugural Graduating Class Headed to Promising Future
In 2011, Jalen Rose put his money where his heart is and started a school in his hometown of Detroit. On Saturday the 13-year NBA player-turned-ESPN and ABC analyst told the 100 young men and women of the school’s first graduating class, “The only person that you are destined to become is the person you…
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Here’s Everything We Know About the Pool Party in Texas
A pool party in McKinney, Texas, Friday has shocked the nation after footage went viral showing a white police officer cursing, threatening and ultimately slamming into the ground and handcuffing a 15-year-old African-American bikini-clad girl. At one point the officer is seen pulling out and pointing his service weapon at a group of teens. The…
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Death of 22-Year-Old Student in Police Custody Ruled a Homicide
A 22-year-old college student who was arrested after a domestic violence dispute and later died in restraints inside a Georgia cell on New Year’s Day, died from blunt-force injuries, and his death has been ruled a homicide. According to the Associated Press, Matthew Ajibade’s parents have being searching for answers for months about exactly what…
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Ohio Man Posts Emotional Video After He Is Badly Beaten Trying to Help His Community
Ronald Moon Jr. has a house in the same Cincinnati neighborhood where he grew up. But instead of turning the family home into a rental property, he decided to make it a community center for the children in the neighborhood. For the past six months, Moon, who quit his job to try to create his…
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Detroit Mom on Trial in Killing of 2 Kids Erupts in Courtroom: ‘Yes, I Did Kill Her!’
A Detroit courtroom dealt with some pretty tense moments Thursday as Mitchelle Blair, the Detroit mom accused of killing two of her children and storing their bodies in a freezer for years, exploded in the courtroom, yelling, “Yes, I did kill her!” According to My Fox Detroit, Blair, 35, is facing murder charges in the…