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[WATCH] Missouri State Senator Jamilah Nasheed Arrested in Ferguson Protests
Jamilah Nasheed, a Missouri state senator, was still in jail Tuesday morning after police took her and another man into custody in front of the Ferguson Police Station Monday night. Nasheed has been released. She says she was arrested trying to demonstrate non-violent disobedience and denies she was just pulling a publicity stunt. More below.…
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EXPERT: Adult murder charge for boy, 10, “defies all logic”
A 10-year-old boy, who is described by his mother as having mental difficulties, is alone in a Pennsylvania county prison cell, charged as an adult with killing a 90-year-old woman. Prosecutors say they had no choice but to charge him in criminal court and house him in an adult correctional facility; the law requires it.…
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Woman Arrested for Protecting Children from Snake
Who would have thought that it would be illegal to defend children from a poisonous snake? This is where the insanity of extreme gun restrictions have brought us. In Florida, a mother was at a school event during a football practice session. A water moccasin was discovered on the practice field, but attempts to kill…
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Toys R’ Us Has Parents Pissed Off With New ‘Breaking Bad’ Crystal Meth Dolls
Susan Schrivjer, a mom from Fort Myers, Fla., was a fan of the award-winning AMC show Breaking Bad. “I thought it was a great show,” she told a local TV station recently. “It was riveting!” Even so, she thinks it’s not such a great idea to sell action figures based on the show’s notorious crystal meth dealers…
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What is the greatest threat to the world? Depends on where you live
2014 has been a tumultuous year in international affairs. From the conflict in Ukraine, to horrific bloodshed in Syria and Iraq, the spreading Ebola epidemic in West Africa and continued weakness in the European economy, numerous world crises have given people plenty to be worried about. In spring of this year, even before many of…
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INCARCERATION NATION: Mississippi Locks Up More People Per Capita Than China And Russia
Mississippi locks up more people per capita than China and Russia combined, according to the most recent comparison. The state had 1,155 inmates per 10,000 population in 2013, which was more than China’s 121 and Russia’s 475, according to the International Centre for Prison Studies and the Prison Policy Initiative. “The Mississippi prison system is…
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CORRUPTION: Mike Hubbard (R-AL) Indicted On 23-Felony Corruption Charges
Mike Hubbard, speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives and a powerful leader in the state Republican Party, has been indicted by a grand jury and charged with 23 counts, including using his office for personal gain and soliciting things of value. Late Monday afternoon, Hubbard reported to the Lee County Jail where he was…
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Virginia Police Have Been Secretively Stockpiling Private Phone Records
While revelations from Edward Snowden about the National Security Agency’s massive database of phone records have sparked a national debate about its constitutionality, another secretive database has gone largely unnoticed and without scrutiny. The database, which affects unknown numbers of people, contains phone records that at least five police agencies in southeast Virginia have been…
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Devious Duo Steals Homeless Clients’ Info, Then Steals Food Stamps
A city social worker sold the personal information of her poor and homeless clients to an accomplice who used it to empty their food-stamp accounts, prosecutors say. Human Resources Administration caseworker Tara Tisdale, 41, sold the names and phone numbers of the very people she was supposed to be helping for about $25 a pop,…
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[WATCH] Police Use Excessive Force to Detain Man, Then Break Phone For Recording An Arrest
A Brighton man said he was detained and roughly handled by a Boston police officer Wednesday night after stopping to videotape an arrest near the I-93/I-90 interchange. Max Bickford told Boston.com that the officer at the scene also briefly confiscated the cell phone he used to record the footage, which later broke on the sidewalk…
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Syrian Rebels Poison Meals Of ISIS, Killing A Dozen
Sources in the Syrian Free Army, a group of defected Syrian Armed Forces soldiers fighting to overthrow the government of President Bashar Al-Assad, say that revolutionaries carried out an operation against the Islamic State, also referred to as ISIS or ISIL. About a dozen ISIS fighters at Deir al-Zour were killed in their camp after…
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FACEBOOK TO D.E.A.: ‘Stop Creating Fake Accounts To Catch Criminals’
Facebook has sent a letter to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration demanding that agents stop impersonating users on the social network. The letter follows a BuzzFeed report that revealed how the DEA seized a woman’s phone and later created a Facebook account in her name. Sondra Arquiett was unaware as the DEA masqueraded as her…
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CBS Producer Mocks Rand Paul, ‘Not Sure When He Became A Doctor’
Katy Conrad is a booker and producer with CBS This Morning, but conservatives quickly made fun of her on Twitter when she mocked Rand Paul’s medical opinion, as if he was a doctor. (Oops, he is — an opthalmologist, to be precise.) Via Nick Dyer: It never hurts to Google search your ridicule targets. “Wait,…
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U.S. Soldier Receives Death Threats at His Home From ISIS Sympathizer
This is the first report instance of a direct threat at a serviceman’s home A friend of mine, who happens to be prior Air Force Security Forces, who then took the plunge into the Army, received two death threats at his residence outside of Miami in Palm Beach County, from a suspected Islamic State sympathizer.…
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ObamaCare Premiums Jump More Than 10 Percent In January 2015
The coming ObamaCare increases in 2015 are going to hurt anyone who has to depend on the sub-standard healthcare plan but for those who voted for Obama, you’re getting exactly what you deserve. ObamaCare shoppers in search of the lowest-cost plan may come down with a mild case of rate shock when 2015 exchange enrollment…
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SERIOUSLY?! Michelle Obama Says This Is All Your Children Are Allowed to Eat For School Lunches
CHICKASHA, Okla. – Lunch meat, a couple of crackers, a slice of cheese and two pieces of cauliflower qualified as lunch in Chickasha Public Schools Monday. Chickasha lunchStudent Kaytlin Shelton took a photo of the skimpy lunch and showed it to her parents. “It makes me want to take that and take it to the…
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[WATCH] CITIZEN ON PATROL: Citizen Pulls Over Cop, Let’s Him Off With A Warning
How often do you see a citizen pull a cop over? Not very much. This cop was lucky though, and got off with a warning. I know if it was the other way around the cops pen would run out of ink from the tickets.
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FEDERAL COURT: Cops Need A Warrant To Grab Your Cell Phone Data
Americans may have a Florida drug dealer to thank for expanding our right to privacy. Police departments around the country have been collecting phone metadata from telecoms and using a sophisticated spy tool to track people through their mobile phones—often without obtaining a warrant. But a new ruling out of Florida has curbed the activity…
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CITY TO MINISTERS: Perform Gay Weddings or Receive $1,000 Fine and 6 Months In Jail
Two Christian ministers who own an Idaho wedding chapel were told they had to either perform same-sex weddings or face jail time and up to $1,000 in daily fines, according to a lawsuit filed Friday in federal court. Alliance Defending Freedom is representing Donald and Evelyn Knapp, two ordained ministers who own the Hitching Post…