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GOP strategist hilariously nails why Laura Ingraham stepped in it with Parkland teens: 'She has the right to be stupid'

The advertising boycott roiling Fox News over personality Laura Ingraham was a self-inflicted mistake, a MSNBC panel explained on Saturday.

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Tomi Lahren boasts she's the ‘leader of a movement’ -- and that Parkland teens ‘signed up for’ personal attacks

Fox News pundit Tomi Lahren took time out of her Good Friday observance to post a tweet that appears to attack the Parkland students. Calling herself the "leader of a movement" she offered the survivors advice, while saying they "signed up for" personal attacks – which have been nonstop from the far right.

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Internet flays brother of Sylvester Stallone for calling David Hogg a 'p*ssy' -- then deleting his tweet in a panic

Marginal celebrity Frank Stallone, most famous for being the brother of director/actor Sylvester Stallone, took to Twitter on Saturday to call Parkland massacre survivor David Hogg a "p*ssy" -- only to cowardly delete it after being barraged with criticism and scorn.

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WATCH: Parkland students react in the best possible way to news the NRA is sending Ted Nugent after them

A panel made up of three student survivors from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School reacted appropriately when AM Joy host Joy Reid informed them that the NRA was unleashing aging rocker Ted Nugent on them after the failures of attacks from NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch and Fox News host Laura Ingraham.

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'He got away with murder': CNN legal analyst blasts prosecutors for letting cop who killed Alton Sterling walk

Reviewing explicit footage of a white Baton Rouge police officer shooting 37-year-old Alton Sterling back in 2016, a defense attorney and CNN legal analyst said a prosecutor's decision to not file charges against the cop meant the officer "got away with murder."

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Protests erupt in Sacramento over police shooting of unarmed Stephon Clark

About 200 demonstrators squared off with police in riot gear overnight in California’s capital and more protests are planned for Saturday, after a autopsy on Stephon Clark contradicted the police account of the shooting of the unarmed black man.

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Fox's Laura Ingraham to take week off as advertisers flee amid controversy

Fox News show host Laura Ingraham announced on her show late Friday that she is taking next week off, after almost a dozen advertisers dropped her show after the conservative pundit mocked a teenage survivor of the Florida school massacre on Twitter.

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Nurse fired for saying police shooting victim Stephon Clark ‘deserved it’

A Sacramento area nurse is no longer working for Kaiser Permanente's Roseville Medical Center after a social media firestorm over the fatal police shooting of Stephon Clark, The Sacramento Bee reported Friday.

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'What dumbass colleges don't want you?': CNN host praises Parkland survivor Hogg after Ingraham takedown

In an interview with Parkland teen David Hogg, CNN host Alisyn Camerota praised Parkland survivor David Hogg for facing down commentator Laura Ingraham by calling for a successful advertiser boycott of her Fox News show -- then  blurted, "What kind of dumbass colleges don't want you?"

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Ohio student shot at school gets detention for participating in national school walkout -- then told to apologize

Less than two years ago, Cooper Caffrey was sitting in his school's cafeteria eating chicken nuggets. Then he was shot. So, it seems fitting he would want to participate in the protests demanding school safety and a stop to school shootings. Yet, when he did, his principal gave Caffrey detention.

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'We're not terrorists': NRA's Dana Loesch goes berserk over Parkland teen 'bigots' who don't 'take action'

NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch on Thursday berated the survivors of a mass shooting in Parkland, Florida for taking part in an anti-gun rally in Washington, D.C. instead of spending the money on school security.

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Mayor and church ‘lay leader’ quits after being arrested for felony sexual assault on a minor

The former mayor of an Arkansas town has resigned from office after being arrested on felony sexual misconduct charges, KFSM News reported Wednesday.

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Major Trump and Breitbart donor Robert Mercer became a volunteer cop so he could carry a concealed weapon anywhere

In a bizarre turn of events, a donor to President Donald Trump, Breitbart and part owner of Cambridge Analytica, became a volunteer police officer in Lake Arthur so he could carry a concealed weapon in his New York county that restricts such permits.

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