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People loot property during nationwide protests following the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd, in Los Angeles, Calif., May 30, 2020. (Patrick T. Fallon/Reuters) Los Angeles Police chief Michel Moore on Thursday faulted California’s “zero bail” policy with returning 14 suspected “smash and grab” looters back to the streets. “All the suspects taken
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Georgia police say that a 13-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed his 14-year-old sister during a botched robbery when he tried to sell a “ghost gun” that he had illegally constructed. The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that police responded to a call of a female shot on Saturday. They found Kyra
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The Nixon Conspiracy: Watergate and the Plot to Remove the President, by Geoff Shepard (Bombardier Books, 2021), 384 pages. There’s an old saying in legal circles: “A prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich.” That is, a determined prosecutor can allege a crime, somewhere, thereby securing an indictment against a hapless defendant. And if that’s true, then what
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Rather than rescind racially divisive training material in response to objections from members and donors, The Salvation Army is concealing the internal curriculum during its annual Christmas fundraising campaign while continuing to pursue “politically charged racial ideologies,” an outside group alleges.  A nationwide petition organized by the fledgling nonprofit Color Us United targets The Salvation
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Olabinjo Osundairo testified Thursday in the trial of Jussie Smollett, the former star of the TV show Empire. Smollett is accused of conspiring with Oundairo and his brother to stage a hate crime against himself in 2019. (Cook County Courthouse Sketch Artist) Chicago, Ill. — The second brother accused of conspiring with former Empire star
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The National Football League suspended Tampa Bay Buccaneers star wide receiver Antonio Brown for three games over claims from his former chef that he used a fake vaccine card. Safety Mike Edwards and free-agent receiver John Franklin III were also suspended from the Buccaneers team for three days for violating the league’s vaccination rules. The
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The ABC, CBS and NBC evening news networks have gone four days without covering Black Lives Matter issuing a racist call to boycott white-owned businesses. The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF) plastered a Black Friday post on Instagram that told followers to celebrate “#BlackXmas” and “Skip the Black Friday sales and buy exclusively
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A Texas social media law designed to curb political censorship violated tech platforms’ First Amendment rights, a federal court found on Wednesday. Judge Robert Pitman of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas issued a preliminary injunction blocking HB 20, signed into law by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, in early September, and declared it
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An anti-abortion demonstrator holds an issue of National Review, End Roe, ahead of arguments in the Mississippi abortion rights case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, in Washington, D.C., December 1, 2021. (Anthony Bolognese, Capitol Hill Photo) I’ve been talking to some colleagues about how maybe it would be less consequential politically than we think, and
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