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By Saagar Enjeti The U.K.’s Home Secretary Theresa May is set to become the first female prime minister since Margaret Thatcher — she will likely succeed David Cameron in the coming weeks, leading the U.K. out of the European Union. May may become prime minister as soon as the end of the week, SkyNews reported Monday. May is…
By Kevin Daley Dallas police used a robot to end a tense standoff with the gunman believed to be responsible for the deaths of five police officers Thursday night, in a novel maneuver many legal experts believe was lawful, if unprecedented. City officials revealed Friday morning an early morning standoff with Micah X. Johnson ended…
Any loss of innocent life is a tragedy that tends to incite visceral, knee jerk reactions from all those who experience it. The media and snippets of video footage disseminated on the internet have painted two recent incidents as national tragedies, and the backlash has been quick and violent. After the police shootings of Alton…
“An assault on the Constitution” By: Elias J. Atienza Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) slammed the newest attempt to expand the Patriot Act on Twitter. Called the “Anti-terrorism Information Sharing Is Strength Act,’, the bill would expand information sharing among federal agencies. More specifically, the bill would update Section 314 of the Patriot Act, regarding information sharing among…
It would seem those on the Dallas police’s side in the wake of the shooting Thursday night that left five officers dead are in the company of the Black Lives Matter movement, as well. This kills the race-baiting notion that Black Lives Matter endorsed this attack, and actually goes a long way toward human solidarity…
Yet again, we see misplaced retaliation from a gunman as a result of the recent police brutality incidents this week. This time, things got shaken up last night in Bristol, Tennessee when the gunman opened fire onto an open highway, targeting police officers. One person, a newspaper carrier, is dead from the haphazard and sloppy…
By Casey Harper A Pennsylvania judge faces a DUI charge after she allegedly got so drunk she fell over during a sobriety test. An off-duty trooper saw Allegheny County Judge Christine Ward driving suspiciously and decided to pull her over Sunday, WTAE reports. Another trooper arrived, and when Ward underwent a sobriety test, she fell over. She even had…
By Lina Bryce The Dallas shooting was the result of a single sniper, an Army Veteran, who said he aimed to “kill white people,” “especially white cops.” According to DPD Press Conference, he killed these men instead. There were reports of 5 officers killed at the hands of the enraged sniper and while we may never know…
By Amber Randall Major media outlets buried the alleged Asian ethnicity of the cop who shot a black man in Minnesota Wednesday night, after featuring or even highlighting the ethnicity of the white cop who shot a black man in Louisiana just a day earlier. In their coverage of the Louisiana shooting, major media outlets…
Mike Brown, Founder of the No Excuses Foundation is causing major waves with a Facebook video that has now been viewed over 5 million times. In the video, Brown addresses the struggle with police that led to the shooting death of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge. Brown, an Army veteran and firearms instructor, said he…