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Aaron Hernandez Struggled With Being Gay: Report
Aaron Hernandez was gay and struggled with his sexuality, according to people close to him. In an Oxygen documentary, Aaron Hernandez Uncovered, his lawyer George Leontire, who is gay and was a member of Hernandezās defense team, said that Hernandez spoke at length about his sexuality and was conflicted about it. āThis man clearly was…
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Russia Is Pretending to Have a Presidential Election
If you havenāt heard, thereās an election in Russia and President Vladimir Putin has already won. Well, Putin hasnāt technically won yet, but heās going to win, just like heās won every other sham election during his reign. The results, which will show him winning by a landslide, are not as much the story as…
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Russia Expels 23 British Diplomats in Tit for Tat Over Spy PoisoningĀ
In response to the United Kingdomās decision to expel 23 Russian diplomats, Russia will return the favor by kicking 23 British diplomats out of the country, the BBC reports. In addition, both the U.K. consulate and the British Council, which promotes cultural ties between the two countries, in St. Petersburg, Russia, will close. British Prime…
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Felix Sater Claims Trump Organization Pursued Deal With Sanctioned Bank During 2016 Election
Longtime Donald Trump associate Felix Sater told Chris Hayes on his MSNBC show Friday that he was trying to secure a real estate deal during the 2016 campaign to build āTrump Tower Moscowā with funding from VTB Bank, which is currently under U.S. sanctions. āI had a local developer there [in Russia], and I had…
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Moms Took Kids to Mosque to Broadcast Islamophobic Rant onĀ Facebook LiveĀ
Two Arizona mothers live-streamed themselves inside a Tempe, Ariz., mosque yelling Islamophobic statements in front of their children, according to CNN. In the March 4 Facebook Live video, Tahnee Gonzales and Elizabeth Dauenhauer are inside the Islamic Community Center of Tempe claiming to expose āShariah law in Americaā and āthe illegal invasion of Muslims.ā They…
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A Word About Louis Farrakhan and Tamika Mallory
Womenās March Co-President Tamika Malloryās public image has been taking a drumming all week since news broke of her attendance at the Nation of Islamās annual Saviourās Day, during which Minister Louis Farrakhan delivered a speech with anti-Semitic commentary. The speech was delivered at the end of February, but Twitter went ablaze last weekend after…
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āPatrioticā Trump Supporter Finds Out She Was Tricked by Russian Trolls and Her Reaction Is Hilarious
Florine Gruen Goldfarb loves America. She is a real, down-home patriot. So much so that she unwittingly promoted Russian-coordinated events on Facebook in support of Donald Trump. Goldfarb, who runs the Team Trump Broward County Facebook page, was one of the 53 percent of white women who backed Trump in 2016 and likely didnāt need…
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Can We Stop Blaming Russian Bots for White Peopleās Racism, Please?!
Special prosecutor Robert Mueller on Friday dropped a 37-page indictment charging 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities with election fraud. The entire indictment focused on how the charged parties used social media to organize pro-Donald Trump and anti-Hillary Clinton rallies and took on fake social media profiles, especially on Twitter and Facebook. Much of…
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Russia Is BoringĀ
I never thought Iād say this, but I am tired of hearing about Russia. Thatās hard for me to admit, given that Iāve devoted my entire graduate education and more than four years of my lifeāso farāto living in Russia and other former USSR republics. But the news cycle that seems to find Russia under…
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I Toured One of the Most Radioactive Places on Earth
Itās 7:30 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 13, and Iām sitting in a white minivan at Kiev, Ukraineās central train station waiting to visit Chernobyl, where the worldās most catastrophic nuclear incident took place in 1986. Iāve been visiting Kiev every three months since 2008, but Iāve never been to Chernobyl, just two hours north of…
