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School board member resigns after children with food allergies joke: ‘Just shoot them’

An embattled Michigan school board member has submitted her resignation after parents grew upset following an off-hand joke she made about children with food allergies during a board meeting, saying, "well, you should just shoot them,"  reports WXYZ Detroit.

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Anti-gay groups launch Twitter campaign to save Duggar show from 'rabid homosexuals'

Responding to a petition calling for The Learning Channel & Discovery Networks to drop the Duggar family's 19 Kids and Counting, the American Family Association is fighting back with a petition of their own, while LifeSiteNews  launched #DefendtheDuggars on Twitter.

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Louie Gohmert's Ebola silver lining: Latinos too scared to cross border with infected Africans

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) on Monday asserted that President Barack Obama had "cut a deal" with the leaders of African countries to bring foreign citizens with Ebola into the United States.

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Fox News host: 'Race-baiting' Eric Holder runs Justice Dept. like 'the Black Panthers would'

Appearing on Friday night's The Five, Fox News host Andrea Tantaros called U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder a "race-baiter," and stated that he runs the Department of Justice "like the Black Panthers would.”

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Utah teen arrested for threat to bomb school and gun down all first responders

A 16-year-old Utah teen has been taken into custody by Saratoga Springs police and the FBI in connection with making a bomb threat against a high school he formerly attended.

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Cafeteria workers feed teen pizza from trash, saying they were confused about her diabetes

A Utah girl said she was humiliated when she was served pizza from a trash can at school, but cafeteria workers insist they misunderstood her needs as a diabetic.

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Albany cop caught on video using Taser on kneeling suspect who was surrendering

An Albany police officer, who shot and killed an undocumented immigrant four years ago, has been suspended and is facing dismissal after video captured him tasering a kneeling teen who was surrendering at the time of the incident.

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Iowa RNC official: Child migrants 'highly trained as warriors' may 'rise up against us'

A Republican official in Iowa urged Americans not to compare child migrants to their own children but to instead consider them dangerous threats.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Creationist Ken Ham's views are 'even crazy to many Christians'

In a recent interview with Dan Arel at Alternet, astrophysicist and host of TV's Cosmos, Neil deGrasse Tyson addressed a wide range of subjects from why he doesn't do debates to calling creationist Ken Ham's views "crazy."

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CNN source 'unequivocally' disputes report that Ferguson officer suffered broken bone

An unnamed source has “unequivocally” knocked down the anonymous report that Officer Darren Wilson suffered broken bones near his eye socket before shooting unarmed teenager Michael Brown.

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Texas grandfather accused of sexually assaulting 12-year-old special needs softball player

A Texas man is currently being held by authorities after being accused of multiple sexual assaults on a 12-year-old girl who played on a special needs softball team with his grandson.

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Oklahoma cop accused of threatening to arrest women during on-duty sex assaults

An Oklahoma City police officer named in a wrongful death lawsuit filed earlier this year has been accused of sexually assaulting women while on duty.

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Alabama man cites 'stand your ground' law after killing cousin over 'Fast, Furious' DVDs

An Alabama man charged with stabbing his cousin to death after fighting over DVDs of "The Fast and the Furious" films wants his case thrown out because he acted in self-defense under the state's "stand your ground" law, prosecutors said on Thursday.

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