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Chicago Mayor Calls for Resignation of Chicago Police Superintendent Over Laquan McDonald Murder

This Tuesday, December 1, 2015, Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago asked for the resignation of Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy. This happened at a press conference that was heavily attended by protestors that were unsettled by how the city was …

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Three Men Rape and Kill Pastor’s Wife in Indiana

Three men from Indiana have been arrested for the rape and murder of a local pastor’s pregnant wife. The incident occurred during a home invasion on November 10, 2015. The victim was thirteen weeks pregnant when she was attacked and

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Tamir Rice Killing Trial Moves to Grand Jury After 1 Year

It has been one year since 12-year-old Cleveland boy, Tamir Rice, was fatally shot by the police. Rice had been playing with a pellet gun when someone called 911. Based on the surveillance footage, the white officer appears to have …

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New Study from University of Texas Links Meat Consumption with Kidney Cancer

Studies showing a link between heavy meat consumption and cancer have been very prevalent in the news lately. A new study conducted by Dr. Xifeng Wu and colleagues at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston made …

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Stabbing on UC Merced Campus, Perpetrator Shot and Killed by Police

The campus police at University of California, Merced shot and killed a male student on Wednesday, November 4, 2015 after he wounded four people in a stabbing rampage on campus.

Two students, one staff member, and a construction worker were …

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Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino Joins Protest of Police Brutality

Oscar-winning filmmaker Quentin Tarantino joined the peaceful protest against police brutality in New York City this weekend. Tarantino flew into the city from California to march the seven and a half miles on Greenwich Village’s Sixth Avenue as a part …

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Defunding of Louisiana Planned Parenthood Clinics Held Off For Further Investigation

The state of Louisiana has to wait a minimum of two more weeks before it is legally allowed to cut Medicaid funding from two in-state Planned Parenthood clinics, as it intended to do. The federal judge on the case is …

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Airstrike in Syria Kills Al Qaeda Cell Leader

On Sunday evening, October 18, 2015, the Pentagon announced that the leader of a Qaeda cell had been killed in a military airstrike in northwestern Syria. The cell had allegedly been plotting attacks against both the US and Europe.

The …

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First Lady Michelle Obama Taking Big Leaps for “Let Girls Learn” Initiative

In March, President and First Lady Obama announced the creation of the “Let Girls Learn” initiative – a campaign dedicated to bringing education to the sixty-two million girls around the world who are not in school. Mostly adolescents, these girls …

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New Study Suggests Different Reason for Dinosaurs’ Demise

Until a recent study, scientists have agreed for the longest time that the extinction of the dinosaurs was caused by a catastrophic, mountain sized asteroid hitting the earth. New research published in the science journal “Science” on Thursday, October 1 …

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