Following rulings in Colorado and Maine disqualifying former President Donald Trump from the ballot under a Fourteenth Amendment clause, Arizona House Republicans are pushing a bold initiative to designate Trump as the winner of the 2024 presidential election regardless of voters’ decision. State lawmakers in the GOP-controlled Legislature are pushing it as a resolution, not...
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Charges Dismissed Against Former White Louisiana State Troopers Who ‘Ruthlessly’ Beat Black Man Then Bragged About In Texts: He ‘Gonna be Sore Tomorrow’
The former white Louisiana state police troopers who were recorded beating a Black driver in 2020 following a high-speed chase and who later wrote a series of text messages bragging about the violent arrests will no longer face charges. The state’s prosecutors have dropped the charges against Dakota DeMoss and Jacob Brown, with plans to...
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Rachel Dolezal Loses Teaching Job Over Social Media Content That’s ‘Contrary’ to School District’s Policy
Rachel Dolezal, infamously known for pretending to be a Black woman, has been fired from her job after her OnlyFans account came to light. Dolezal — who also goes by Nkechi Diallo — served as an after-school teacher for the Catalina Foothills School District in Tucson, Arizona. In a statement to KVOA, the district’s director...
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Man Arrested for Stealing Beloved Bronze Jackie Robinson Statue In Kansas Was Likely Not Motivated By Race, Authorities Say
Police in Wichita, Kansas, tracked down a man who is accused of stealing a popular bronze statue of legendary baseball player Jackie Robinson. Ricky Alderete, 45, was charged with making false information, identity theft, aggravated criminal damage to property, and felony theft valued over $25,000 in connection to the incident. A statue of Jackie Robinson...
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Meta’s Oversight Board Blasts Facebook Policy Allowing Altered Clip of Biden to Stay Online. How Could Disinformation Spread Impact the Upcoming Presidential Election?
Meta’s Oversight Board said it recently decided to uphold the social media company’s decision to leave on Facebook a video, first posted last May, that was altered to make it seem as though President Joe Biden is touching his adult granddaughter inappropriately. The board criticized Meta’s manipulated media policy in the decision, stating it was...
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‘He Was Scared of the Big, Black Man’: Texas Army Veteran Gets 40 Years for Racially Motivated Murder But Avoids Life Term
A Texas Army veteran who was convicted of murdering a Black man in a racially motivated shooting in 2021 was sentenced last week to 40 years in prison but avoided a life term from the judge, which could set him free after serving half the time. Christopher Lee Powell, 36, of Killeen, was found guilty...