South Carolina has followed Mississippi, whose governor signed a similar bill on Tuesday, in an attempt to become the latest state to force transgender people to use bathrooms corresponding to the gender on their birth certificates. S. 1203, South Carolina's transgender bathroom bill, goes before a cmte, chaired by a …
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Ted Cruz is stepping up his rhetoric to reach the inflammatory levels of GOP front runner Donald Trump in the aftermath of the terror attacks in Brussels which left more than 30 dead. Following calls from Trump to legalize waterboarding, and his musings as to whether Cuba was properly quarantining …
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The officer who shot and killed Greg Gunn in Montgomery, Alabama last Thursday has been arrested on murder charges, reports say. Montgomery County district Attorney Daryl Bailey announced Wednesday afternoon that the MPD officer, 23-year-old Aaron “AC” Smith was held by the State Bureau of Investigations and released shortly …
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Salt Lake City Police Department issued a press release Saturday reporting that two officers had shot and wounded a 17-year-old. According to the release, officers saw two males attacking a male victim with metal objects. After ordering them to drop their weapons, one of the attackers complied while the other …
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We’ve all heard the stories of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Eric Garner in New York, Tamir Rice in Cleveland, Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Walter Scott in Charleston. Commonality: they were all killed by law enforcement officers. In its yearly review, international NGO Human Rights Watch determined that the mistreatment of …
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2015 was, by some definitions, a historic year for race relations in the United States. On one end of the spectrum, Black Lives Matter firmly established itself unequivocally as much more than a hashtag, but an organized and determined struggle to stop police terror and inequality. From the opposite side, …
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In blatant violation of federal court rulings, Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has asked all probate judges to maintain Alabama’s same-sex marriage ban by denying marriage licenses. Six months ago a Supreme Court decision rendered the ban illegal, yet Roy Moore has continued to ignore federal law. VOX explores …
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