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FREE AT LAST: Brooklyn Man Freed After Serving 29 Years For False Murder Conviction
Coerced by police into a murder confession as a teenager, Brooklyn man David McCallum was finally released today after serving 29 years behind bars. McCallum sobbed in court when his murder conviction was vacated on Wednesday, his head down on the Brooklyn Supreme Court defense table, according to New York Daily News. “I’m very, very…
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NYPD Unions Appealing Ban On Stop-And-Frisk
New York City police unions are arguing that they should have the right to continue the appeal of a federal judge’s 2013 ruling that deemed unconstitutional the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk policy. Lawyers for the unions are due to appear before US appeals court judges on Wednesday, according to AP, where they will counter…
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DICK CHENEY: ‘Next Attack On America Will Be Far Deadlier Than 9/11’
Former Vice President Dick Cheney warned that the next terrorist attack on the US will be far worse than 9/11 during a nearly two-hour interview. He also took pride in the use of waterboarding and in giving the National Security Agency free reign. The 73-year-old sat down with neoconservative political pundit Bill Kristol on Sunday…
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[VIDEO] ‘Justice For Everyone!’ Thousands Protest Against Police Brutality In St. Louis, Ferguson
Hundreds of protesters standing in front of the Ferguson police department are demanding justice for Mike Brown, a black teenager killed by a white cop. Rallies in downtown St. Louis have drawn thousands, all standing up against police brutality. The mother of Michael Brown, who was killed in the August 9 shooting, marched with a…
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[VIDEO] TERROR ON AMERICAN SOIL: #FergusonOctober stages 4-day rally as shooting anger rages
Protests in the suburbs of St. Louis kicked off a weekend-long series of rallies against racial law enforcement profiling that has left two black teenagers dead. Activists confronted police decked out in paramilitary gear, but the night ended peacefully. Locals dominated the crowds, but people from around the country joined the vigil held in honor…
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DEA: ‘We Are Interested In Americans’ Investments In Canadian Marijuana Business’
Those US citizens who have grabbed an opportunity to profit off the booming Canadian medical marijuana market may eventually find themselves breaking US laws, as the DEA seems to be tracking potential money laundering and drug trafficking violators. The Canadian government passed laws in April making it legal for any licensed company to grow and…
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Liberals Bailing On Obama On Eve of Elections
With his second and final term in office nearly half-way done, United States President Barack Obama, who enjoyed record popularity after first being elected in 2008, is struggling to keep up with the ratings of wildly unpopular predecessor George W. Bush. Fallout isn’t unexpected during so-called “lame duck” sessions in which reelection is ruled out…
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[VIDEO] “YOU’RE ALL SCREWED!” Man Jokes About Having Ebola, Removed From Plane
He didn’t yell “bomb,” but he might as well have. Common sense dictates you might not want to joke that you have Ebola on a crowded airplane several thousand miles in the sky. And yet, as Fox News Latino reported, an unidentified man did just that this week during a flight from Philadelphia to the Dominican…
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GOV’T WASTE: US Planes Worth $500M Sold For Scrap In Afghanistan – for only $32,000
A US watchdog is asking why 16 planes bought for the Afghan Air Force, costing almost $500 million, were turned into scrap metal valued at just $32,000. The government wants to know why hundreds of millions of taxpayers’ money were wasted on the project. The military transport planes had been sitting at Kabul International Airport…
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[VIDEO] NYPD Officer Takes $1,300 From Man, Then Pepper Sprays Him
Video has surfaced appearing to show a New York City police officer taking $1,300 from a man who says he was robbed and then pepper-sprayed by the cop during a stop-and-frisk last month that ended without arrest. The New York Daily News published exclusive video of the September 16 incident on Wednesday this week and…
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STRIKE: LaGuardia Workers Refusing to Work In Fear of Ebola-ravaged Countries
Airplane cabin cleaning crews at New York’s LaGuardia International Airport began a 24-hour strike on Wednesday, citing, in part, possible exposure to the Ebola virus. Meanwhile, a poll found most Americans want flights banned from Ebola-ravaged areas. Around 200 Air Serv employees who work on domestic flights to LaGuardia began their strike on Wednesday evening.…
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NSA spying damages US economy, may end up ‘breaking the Internet’
Technology giants claim the National Security Agency’s bulk surveillance programs are hurting the American economy, and one Senator is hoping to use that warning to push stalled reform through Congress. Google, Microsoft, and Facebook were just some of the companies represented at a public forum held by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) on Wednesday, and they…
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FBI Defends Violation of Fourth Amendment Rights
Lawyers for a digital rights group squared off with federal attorneys in a San Francisco courthouse on Wednesday during an appeals hearing that will determine whether the government can serve telecom providers with gag orders when requesting user data. Last year, United States District Judge Susan Illston ruled that the FBI’s use of administrative subpoenas…
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[VIDEO] POLICE BRUTALITY: NYPD cops under criminal investigation after punching, pistol-whipping teen suspect
Caught on surveillance camera two New York Police officers are being investigated for punching and using a gun to bash a teenage African-American boy. The surveillance footage, obtained by “On The Inside” DNAinfo New York, shows a teenager, Kahreem Tribble, being punched and pistol-whipped by two officers. The incident occurred August 29. The video shows…
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OUTRAGE: No Charges For SWAT Officers Who Maimed Toddler During Raid
Georgia law enforcement officers responsible for a bungled SWAT raid that left a toddler burned and disfigured will not face criminal charges, a grand jury has decided. The case is now being reviewed by federal officials. News of the decision first broke on Monday, when a 23-person grand jury in Habersham County, Georgia, called the…
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TERRORISTS AMONG US: FBI starts anti-jihadist neighborhood informer campaign
The FBI counter-terrorism division is calling on to Americans to report on fellow citizens engaged in suspicious activities to help identify possible terrorists, in the first place those connected to terrorist activities overseas. In a statement published by the FBI on Tuesday, assistant director of the counter-terrorism division Michael Steinbach said the Bureau needs “the…
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[INTERACTIVE MAP] Ebola: Evolution of An Epidemic
Spreading from the heart of West Africa to the cowboy capital of the world, the ongoing Ebola epidemic shows no sign of abating. Hitting half a dozen countries in as many months, here’s a brief timeline of the worst public health crisis in modern times. Source: RT More on EBOLA: VIDEO– Washington press…
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[VIDEO] Open-Carry Supporters Bring Guns To Ohio Walmart In Protest Of Police Shooting
Exercising the state’s open-carry laws on firearms, Ohio residents brought their guns to a Walmart store to protest the officer-involved fatal shooting of African-American shopper John Crawford. About 40 people rallied on Saturday in front of the Beavercreek Walmart to demonstrate against the death of Crawford, 22, who was shot to death by police inside…
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BREAKING: FDA Approves Experimental Vaccine For Ebola Treatment
Regulators in the United States have approved an experimental drug for treating patients suffering from the Ebola virus one week after health officials in Dallas, Texas diagnosed a Liberian national with the deadly disease. On Monday this week, drug makers Chimerix announced that the US Federal Drug Administration has approved the use of its brincidofovir…
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FBI WARNING: ‘TERRORISTS WILL ATTACK U.S. VERY, VERY SOON’
The Khorasan Group, the Al-Qaeda-linked cell that just landed on the US intelligence radar last month, allegedly has Americans in its ranks fighting in the Middle East whom the FBI cannot prevent from re-entering the country. Last month, the world was introduced to yet another terrorist group – the Khorasan Group – a veteran group…
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REPORT: Ebola-positive man possibly infected 10 in Dallas, Texas
US health officials are monitoring 10 quarantined people who had contact with a Liberian man infected by the deadly Ebola virus. The individuals are being checked regularly as medical officials play down the risk of an outbreak. The 10 individuals are considered to be at ‘high risk,’ and are being checked at regular intervals for…