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TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Three hung juries in the case of a white former Oklahoma police officer charged with fatally shooting his daughter’s black boyfriend had one thing in common besides unwillingness to convict: Each had only one African-American juror. Race has been an undercurrent in ex-Tulsa officer Shannon Kepler’s first-degree murder case, which is […]

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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Federal investigators returned to search the home of Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock on Sunday, while the officers who raided his hotel room door the night of the shooting gave a harrowing account of a barricaded door they had to bust through and the booby-traps they feared they’d find. The search […]

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NEW YORK (AP) — A CBS Sports reporter clarified his televised report saying quarterback Colin Kaepernick told him he would stand during the national anthem if he played in the NFL again, saying he didn’t actually discuss the issue with the player when they spoke. Jason La Canfora said in a series of tweets on […]

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The Alt-Right troll and his racist followers are back in Virginia protesting the removal of a Confederate statue of Robert E. Lee.

A 20-year-old man headed to court for sentencing on Thursday, October 5, 2017. He pleaded guilty to murder charges after shooting and killing a 17-year-old during an arranged meeting to sell Air Jordans. Dante Tyrell Ford pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and felony firearm violations in September according to Click On Detroit. Ford shot and […]

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — When Tropical Storm Nate formed and forecasts put New Orleans in its projected path for this weekend, one big question loomed for residents and business owners: Will the pumps work? “That’s now a thought in everybody who lives in New Orleans,” said Devin Shearman, a manager at Katie’s restaurant and lounge, […]

A man was arrested in Staten Island on Thursday, October 7, 2017, for knocking out an NYPD traffic agent. 27-year-old Divon Cochrane was charged with two counts of assault and one of harassment according to police. CBS News reports that Cochrane was caught on a surveillance video punching the traffic agent. The 50-year-old agent was […]

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Two potential Democratic presidential candidates are getting rid of the money donated to them by Harvey Weinstein in the wake of an explosive New York Times report that the movie mogul sexually harassed women for “decades.” A spokesman for Cory Booker, the junior senator from New Jersey, said he is donating $7,800 that he received […]

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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock booked rooms over other music festivals in the months before opening fire on a country music festival, authorities said, while thousands came out to mourn a police officer who was one of the 58 people he killed. Paddock booked rooms overlooking the Lollapalooza festival in Chicago […]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. shed 33,000 jobs in September because of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, which closed thousands of businesses in Texas and Florida and forced widespread evacuations. It marked the first monthly hiring decline in nearly seven years. The unemployment rate fell to 4.2 percent from 4.4 percent, the Labor Department said Friday, […]

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MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Tropical Storm Nate roared toward Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula after drenching Central America in rain that was blamed for at least 22 deaths, and forecasters said it could reach the U.S. Gulf Coast as a hurricane over the weekend. Louisiana officials declared a state of emergency and ordered some people to evacuate […]

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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A federal judge says he intends to dismiss a lawsuit that accuses Black Lives Matter and several movement leaders of inciting violence that led to a gunman’s deadly ambush of law enforcement officers in Baton Rouge last year. U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson issued that warning in an order Wednesday, […]