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  • Lifetime Has Movie in the Works on Flint Water Crisis, Starring Cher 

    Lifetime has a movie in the works inspired by the Flint, Mich., water crisis, and singer-actress Cher is slated to be the star. Don’t roll your eyes yet; we haven’t gotten to the best part. This is Cher’s first movie in seven years. According to the Hollywood Reporter, she will portray a Flint resident whose…

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  • Federal Judge Rules Doctors Can Refuse Transgender Patients and Women Who Have Had Abortions

    A U.S. district judge ruled Saturday that doctors may turn away transgender patients and women who have had abortions on the basis of religious freedom. Judge Reed O’Connor wrote in his order that laws that would otherwise forbid gender-based discrimination require doctors to “remove the categorical exclusion of transitions and abortions and conduct an individualized…

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  • National Action Network to Lead We Shall Not Be Moved: The March 2017 on Washington 

    Six days before Donald Trump’s inauguration, a coalition of civil rights groups led by the National Action Network will march to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C., to remind Trump and Congress that the fight for civil rights continues. On Jan. 14 the Rev. Al Sharpton’s NAN will lead groups including the…

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  • ‘F–k Trump!’: Alleged Kidnapping and Torture Live-Streamed on Facebook

    Four people in Chicago are in police custody after an alleged kidnapping and torture incident was broadcast on Facebook Live on Tuesday. CBS Chicago reports that the 18-year-old victim is a Northwest-suburban resident with special needs who had been reported missing. In the video, which has since been removed from Facebook, the victim’s clothes are…

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  • Calif. Democrats Enlist the Help of Former US Attorney General Eric Holder

    As it braces for an adversarial relationship with the incoming presidential administration, on Wednesday the California Legislature selected former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to serve as outside counsel and advise on the state’s legal strategy against President-elect Donald Trump. The arrangement was announced Wednesday as the Legislature returned to session, and as the Los…

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  • Wake County, NC, Reviewing School-Policing Rules After Viral Video 

    The cellphone video of a Rolesville, N.C., police officer body-slamming a female high school student to the floor may lead to changes in the way law enforcement operates in the Wake County school system. School administrators are reviewing the district’s agreement with local law-enforcement agencies on school resource officers, and the News & Observer reports…

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  • State of Mich. Tries to Pull a Fast One With Invite-Only Meeting on Flint Water

    The state of Michigan continues to insult the residents of the city of Flint, who are already enduring what seems to be a never-ending water crisis and the inability to get clean bottled water delivered to their homes without a fight. In its latest faux pas, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality tried to have…

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  • Obama Tells Democrats to ‘Stay Strong’ While Fighting to Protect Obamacare

    Congressional Republicans Wednesday began to make good on their promise to dismantle Obamacare, even though they have said they have no full plan to replace the much needed health care program. Vice President-elect Mike Pence met behind closed doors with House and Senate Republicans, and while he offered no details about what a new health…

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  • Pro-Marijuana Group Will Hand Out Free Joints in DC for Trump’s Inauguration

    People attending Donald Trump’s inauguration in Washington, D.C., will have the opportunity to experience it on a higher level; a pro-marijuana group plans to hand out free joints the day the president-elect is sworn in. DCMJ is an organization that worked to pass Initiative 71, which made it legal to carry up to 2 ounces…

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  • NY Governor Proposes Free Tuition at State Colleges for Eligible Students

    New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo pledged Tuesday to cover tuition costs at state colleges for hundreds of thousands of middle- and low-income students. Under Cuomo’s plan, college students who have been accepted to a state or city college or university in New York, including two-year community colleges, would be eligible if they or their family…

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