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Report: New York police running criminal checks on domestic abuse victims
New York City police have been ordered to run criminal background checks on domestic abuse victims, The New York Post reported on Friday. According to a March 5 memo obtained by the newspaper, Chief of Detectives Phil Pulaski has directed detectives to run background checks on both the accuser and…
Ex-Army specialist: I’m still concerned that military won’t address rape culture
A former Army specialist who shared her story about being raped as an 18-year-old servicewoman before a Senate hearing told MSNBC host Richard Lui on Friday she was “still a little bit concerned” about the culture that protected her attacker being addressed. “Going into the testimony, I was not sure…
Anti-marijuana New York assemblyman busted for weed possession
A Republican lawmaker in New York who has a record of voting against medical marijuana legalization has been arrested and charged with possession of marijuana. State police said that a suspicious odor was noticed in Assemblyman Steve Katz’s vehicle when they pulled him over for driving around 80 mph in…
Court: CIA cannot continue to deny basic information on drone program
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) will have to rethink how to turn away information requests regarding the agency’s suspected use of drone aircraft to bomb targets overseas thanks to a court ruling issued Friday. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals held in a 3-0 vote on Friday that the CIA…
LaPierre: ‘A violent rapist deserves to face a good woman with a gun’
National Rifle Association (NRA) chief Wayne LaPierre says that a “good woman with a gun” is the best way to deal with violent rapists. Speaking to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Friday, the NRA CEO lashed out at the Obama administration for releasing thousands of undocumented immigrants —…
CDC: Organ transplant infected patient who died from rabies
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced Friday morning that a Maryland patient who died of rabies caught the disease by way of a 2011 organ transplant, not by an animal bite. According to CBS News, the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene began investigating the case after…
Video game industry sales dropped 25 percent in a year
US videogame sales extended their decline in February with a 25 percent monthly drop compared with a year ago, according to an industry tracker. NPD Group said Thursday that total sales of hardware, software and accessories were $810 million in February, down from $1.09 billion 12 months earlier. Videogame hardware…
Conservatives bemoan the ‘repression’ that results from pushing discriminatory policies in America
At the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday, Breitbart editor-at-large Ben Shapiro, National Organization of Marriage’s president Brian Brown, Republican super-lawyer Celta Mitchell and voting ID and anti-New Black Panther Party activist Hans von Spakovsky convened to discuss “Threats, Harassment, Intimidation, Slander and Bullying From the Obama Administration.” But despite…
McConnell: Democrats’ 2016 field looking like ‘a rerun of The Golden Girls’
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) got in a few yucks during his 2013 CPAC speech Friday morning, telling a crowd that he thinks the Democratic Party’s 2016 presidential field is looking like “a rerun of ‘The Golden Girls.’” “Don’t tell me the Democrats are the party of the future…
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