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NFL linebacker Barkevious Mingo, who is currently with the Atlanta Falcons, has been arrested in Texas on a charge of indecency with a child-sexual contact, police said Saturday. Mingo, 30, was arrested on Thursday by police in the Dallas suburb of Arlington. Jail records listed an address for Mingo in West Monroe, Louisiana. Arlington Police said …

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When Eliot Middleton was a little boy, he followed his father around everywhere, watching the talented mechanic carefully fix car after car. Less than a year after his death, Middleton, 38, now a restaurant owner, is honoring his father’s legacy by fixing junk cars and donating them to people throughout rural South Carolina, where public …

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A federal court on Friday blocked a Tennessee law that requires businesses and public facilities to post a sign notifying patrons and visitors that they allow transgender individuals to use the bathrooms that correspond to their gender identity. State of play: Judge Aleta Trauger of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee granted a preliminary …

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A Michigan mayor is defending his use of $4,500 in campaign funds to help pay for his daughter’s wedding, arguing that the celebration doubled as a campaign event. According to local ABC News affiliate WXYZ, Romulus Mayor LeRoy Burcroff said through his lawyer that the money was allocated from his campaign fund to pay for the open bar …

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Kathyrn Garra was horrified to see dozens of angry parents show up to a school board meeting in Naples, Florida, last month to try to stop the Collier County School Board from approving new textbooks. The parents argued that the books should be ousted because the publisher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, had shared blog posts about …

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Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to President Biden, said Sunday it’s “almost inexplicable” that some Americans continue to resist getting vaccinated against COVID-19 despite information showing those who have not received their shots are at a higher risk of becoming infected, especially as the Delta variant spreads. “It is almost inexplicable why people, when they see …

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) ripped Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) for remarks regarding government unemployment benefits during a conservative gathering in Dallas over the weekend. “We’re here to tell government, we don’t want your benefits, we don’t want your welfare. Don’t come knockin’ on my door with your Fauci ouchie, you leave us the hell alone,” Boebert said Saturday at CPAC, …

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Former President Trump on Sunday said he “became worse” after he was impeached by the House of Representatives twice during his four years in office. Trump, during a speech at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), compared calls for his impeachment to calls for former Attorney General William Barr‘s impeachment. Two ethics groups in October called on the House …

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The head of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) Randi Weingarten makes over half a million dollars per year in her job – more than nine times the average teachers salary in the U.S. In 2019, Weingarten received a salary of $489,844 along with $74,392 in other compensation, bringing her total haul for the year to $564,236, according …

American Federation of Teachers head Randi Weingarten makes over $560,000 per year, 9 times average teacher salary, records show Read More »

President-elect Joe Biden’s proposal to forgive $10,000 of federal student debt as COVID relief could erase loan balances for 15 million borrowers and reduce balances for millions more, according to federal data. Broad student loan forgiveness could affect 45.3 million borrowers with federal student loan debt who owe a total of $1.54 trillion to the …

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