By Lauren Rearick While all eyes were on the stage at Tuesday night’s Democratic primary debate in Detroit, Michigan, there were a few special visitors in the audience: Three former high school football players, who were benched for taking a knee in 2017 joined right after acquiring an invitation from former congressman Beto O’Rourke attend. As students at Lansing Catholic High ..

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By Lauren Rearick A 24-year-old woman died on Thursday, July 25, while in a hike to Fairbanks Bus 142, a Alaskan landmark made famed by the death of hiker Christopher McCandless, whose death was immortalized in the novel Into the Wild and the film of the same name. when they were hiking towards the site of the abandoned bus, which is located in Denali National Park in Healy, Alaska,..

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A gunman opened fire into an audience at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Northern California on Sunday, July 28, killing at least three people and wounding 15 others, according to data released from City of Gilroy at 5:00 a.M. EST. One of the victims was a 6-year-old boy, Steven Romero, who was at the festival with his mother and grandmother, NBC News reported. The perpetrator, who wa..

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It’s time to take the climate crisis seriously: The 1975 and Greta Thunberg mentioned so. The new song from The 1975 on their upcoming album Notes on a Conditional Form isn’t a usual tune from the English language sort. It is titled "The 1975," a tradition for the musical group — each of their past three albums has kicked off with a self-titled track — nevertheless unlike t..

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By Nico Lang Sarah McBride understands how challenging it might be to get high quality, affordable healthcare In America. As soon as her partner, Andy Cray, needed an emergency operation in 2014 to drain fluid that was accumulating in his lungs, the couple had no choice although to mention yes. Cray was rapidly losing the capacity to breathe, and without undergoing the essential proc..

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It’s been nearly four months since special counsel Robert Mueller and his team concluded their 22-month investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, and nearly three months since he released the 448-page report. On Wednesday, July 24, he testified before Congress to tell each person that, despite Donald Trump’s insistence, the report did not exonerate the Presiden..

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By Lauren Rearick Francisco Erwin Galicia, a 18-year-old U.S. Citizen who was place on Earth in Dallas, Texas, was detained and contained by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for three weeks, the Dallas Morning News reported. The high school athletic star was just attempting to go to a soccer scouting event any time as soon as he was detained at a CBP checkpoint. Border P..

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By Kenya Hunter In 2020 and in back of, what will electoral justice look like for Black ladies? Does it look like having a Black woman in the Oval Office despite a questionable political past? Does it mean picking a white woman with a checkered history? Does it look like falling in line with the best 2020 democratic presidential candidates and supporting whomever wins the nomination,..

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For years, we have known that gun violence and domestic violence are inextricably linked; in 2017, Everytown for Gun Safety found that 54 percent of perpetrators who were culpable for mass shootings had shot a current or past partner or family. The likelihood of violence by a partner is so pervasive that for years, activists called upon lawmakers to close a so-called "boyfriend looph..

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More than 3 million people could soon be classified as ineligible for food stamp advantages in the wake of President Donald Trump’s massive regulatory attack on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. About 45.4 million people use SNAP in the U.S.; Children use SNAP the most, and the large majority of these who are enrolled in the program are millennials and gen ..

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By Lauren Rearick On July 16, 2019, a Pennsylvania school district threatened to place children with outstanding school lunch debt in foster care. Just a week later, the president of the district's board of education defended the decision with some pretty condescending financial advice. Nearly 1,000 students attending Wyoming Valley West School District in Kingston, Pennsylvania, ha..

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, acquired authorization from the Trump administration to start deporting a lot more immigrants without due process. The Trump administration reported on Monday that it plans to expand its use of the “expedited removal” deportation, in which immigration officials deport immigrants without a hearing before an immigration judge, for..

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