Scott Roeder, who was convicted in April 2010 for the murder of Kansas late-term abortion provider George Tiller, will face disciplinary charges in prison on Monday for allegedly threatening the founder of a new women’s health clinic. The Associated Press reported that Roeder, who is serving...
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Kansas abortion doctor’s killer faces hearing for threatening new clinic
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Two white Texas officers fired for beating black woman over $150 fine
Two police officers in Texas have been fired after they were caught on video beating a woman who was being arrested for an unpaid traffic ticket. In an interview with KBMT last week, 25-year-old Keyarika “Shea” Diggles said that Jasper Officer Ricky Grissom was polite at first, allowing...
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Woman harassed by Petraeus’ mistress files defamation suit against feds
The Florida woman who was the target of harassing emails from ex-Central Intelligence Agency director Gen. David Petraeus’ mistress has filed a lawsuit accusing the Defense Department and Federal Bureau of Investigations of defamation and violation of privacy. Talking Points Memo reported on...
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Watch live: Senate holds hearing on military sexual assault
The Senate Armed Services Committee holds a hearing on legislation relating to sexual assaults in the military. Watch the hearing, broadcast via NBC News on June 4.
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Maddow: Get ready for ‘long, hot, stupid summer’ with Republicans in Congress
On Monday night’s edition of “The Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow discussed the “long, hot, stupid summer” we can look forward to on Capitol Hill. With the IRS legally unable to defend itself and subpoena powers in the hands of Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the...
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Carrboro mayor among 150 arrested protesting North Carolina legislature
Carrboro Mayor Mark Chilton was one of 151 people arrested at the North Carolina Legislative Building on Monday to protest what they said was an overreach by the Republican-controlled state government. For weeks, protesters have been participating in civil disobedience as part of “Moral...
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The GOP Continues To Believe The Solution Lies In Better Euphemisms
Joan Walsh at Salon has a great piece up about Darrell Issa today, particularly the way that he’s a favorite punching bag for Republicans who want to appear “reasonable”. As she notes, the disagreement between Issa and his conservative critics, however, is purely about aesthetics....
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ACLU report confirms nonwhites make up most of marijuana arrests
Authorities were nearly 400 percent more likely to arrest people of color than whites for marijuana-related offenses, according to a report released Monday (PDF) by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), despite similar usage rates between 2001 and 2010. The report, compiled using data from the...
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Florida man arrested and fined for firing AR-15 into own house
A 52-year-old Largo, Florida man was arrested early Monday morning for firing shots into his own home using an AR-15 assault weapon. According to Tampa’s Bay News 9, Douglas York told a judge that he was defending his house from intruders. “I was defending my own house,” York said...
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Pennsylvania school crossing guard agrees to stop carrying pistol at work
A school crossing guard in Pennsylvania said this week that he would stop carrying a pistol on the job because he didn’t want to be perceived as a “monster.” Since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School last year, 52-year-old Scott Becker has taken it upon himself to bring...
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Health Secretary Sebelius named in report over ‘recent’ secret government emails
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, as well as a former director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other federal officials, were found to be using secret government email accounts in a review published by the Associated Press on Tuesday. But as Think Progress...
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Rand Paul: Promoting Susan Rice undermines Obama’s ‘moral authority’
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Wednesday said that President Barack Obama was undermining his own “moral authority” by naming United States Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice as the new national security advisor because she had misled the public about last year’s attacks in...
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Trayvon Martin lawyers slam Zimmerman defense team for ‘fabrication of evidence’
A lead attorney of the firm representing the family of Trayvon Martin blasted the defense team representing George Zimmerman, Jr. and accused them of fabricating evidence in an attempt to taint the jury pool in Zimmerman’s trial. According to Huffington Post, Jasmine Rand of the civil rights...
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Bill Nye: ‘Heat energy’ caused 2.6 mile-wide tornado in Oklahoma
Excess “heat energy in the atmosphere” contributed significantly to making last week’s EF5 tornado in El Reno, Oklahoma grow to an astonishing 2.6 miles-wide, science educator Bill Nye told CNN on Tuesday. The El Reno tornado was the widest-ever on record, and the National Weather...
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5 ways Congress wants to tackle the military’s sexual assault problem
By Christie Thompson, ProPublica When the Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing on the U.S. military’s sexual assault crisis, lawmakers grilled Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine officials on the alarmingly high number of rapes and other sexual abuses in their ranks. Political momentum...
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Alabama lawmaker says he’s being stalked by strippers
A conservative Christian Alabama lawmaker has publicly thanked his wife for threatening several exotic dancers who he claimed were stalking him. Alabama state Sen. Shadrack McGill (R) on Tuesday told AL.com that a number of strippers had come to his work at even to his home in the middle of the...
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Appeals court orders FDA to make emergency contraception available without age restriction
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday rejected an Obama administration appeal to keep emergency contraception limited to women 15 years and older with valid identification. The ruling, submitted by judges Ralph K. Winter, Peter W. Hall and Gerard E. Lynch, ordered the Food and Drug...
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Porn actor sentenced to jail for knowingly exposing co-stars to syphilis
A 42-year-old pornographic actor known as “Mr. Marcus” has been sentenced to 30 days in jail for knowingly exposing two of his co-stars to syphilis. According to NBC News, the performer, whose real name is Jesse Spencer, tampered with doctors’ reports in order to proceed with...
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GetEqual defends heckling the First Lady: ‘We are treating her as a Democrat leader’
The co-director of Get Equal, the LGBT group affiliated with the 56-year-old woman who interrupted a speech by First Lady Michelle Obama on Tuesday told The Raw Story that while the group did not mean to be disrespectful toward her, the protest stood in line with its goal of holding politicians...
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Rep. McDermott snaps at Fox News host: ‘You are putting words in my mouth! Stop it!’
Things got heated on Wednesday when a Democratic congressman agreed to an interview with Fox News, the conservative network that has apparent obsession with devoting hours of airtime every day to covering the news that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) targeted certain political groups. Following...
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