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Malala’s attackers are going to jail for life
Malala Yousafzai. (Southbank Centre / Wikimedia Commons) A court in Pakistan has sentenced 10 men to life in jail for their roles in shooting Malala Yousafzai in the head in 2012. Today Malala...
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Psychologists played a role in justifying US torture
The APA looks just a bit more menacing now. (Oakstreetstudio / Wikimedia Commons) A new report says that the American Psychological Association helped the Bush administration justify torture. #APA...
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The Freddie Gray Investigation Just Got Real
We still don't know what happened to Freddie Gray in the back of that police van. (Arash Azizzada / Flickr) The death of Freddie Gray is the kind of thing people have strong feelings about. But amidst...
View ArticleThe eyes of the country are on Marilyn Mosby, the prosecutor in the Freddie...
Just four months after taking the job, Baltimore's chief prosecutor Marilyn Mosby is in the national spotlight. She held a big press conference today to announce that that the 6 Baltimore police...
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Ethiopian Israelis protest racial profiling by police
Ethiopian Israelis protesting in Tel Aviv over the weekend. (activestills / Flickr) Over the weekend, protests erupted in Israel over a viral video showing the police beating a uniformed Israeli...
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Was a Shooting Over Anti-Muslim Cartoons in Texas the First ISIS Attack in...
The terrorists known as ISIS is claiming that it just pulled off its first attack on American soil. Wait, what? For real, the terror group based in Iraq and Syria claims that an attack last weekend on...
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Huge Bollywood movie star Salman Khan got sentenced to jail for 5 years
Salman Khan is a huge movie star. His image appears on ads on buses like this one in India. (Unlisted Sightings / Flickr) Salman Khan is a huge movie star in India. He's kind of like the Tom Cruise of...
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Attorney General Loretta Lynch goes to Baltimore to ‘hold your hands’
Many believe police routinely violate people's civil rights--especially black people. Baltimore asked the Justice Department to look into whether that's true in the Baltimore PD. (Dren P / Flickr) Our...
View ArticleIs hate speech protected by the Constitution? Depends who you ask
If you know your Constitutional amendments, you know that the very first one includes freedom of speech. But not everyone agrees on what it means. Fox News host Megyn Kelly had some words with radio...
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Should Boston Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Be Executed? The 5 Factors
The four killed by the Tsarnaev brothers were nationally mourned. (Polterguy30 / Flickr) Last month, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev--the younger of the two brothers responsible for the Boston Marathon bombings of...
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Meet Gavin Grimm, who is fighting for transgender bathroom rights
The seemingly simple, universal act of going to the bathroom has become a battleground over transgender rights. (bandita / Flickr) Gavin Grimm is 16 and he's suing his school district in Virginia...
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Should We Show and Watch Violent Videos of Crimes Like the WDBJ Killing?
The WDBJ anchor desk. (Senator Mark Warner / Flickr) Someone is killed violently. It's disturbing. And there's a video of the grisly event. What happens when that murder is videotaped and the footage...
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How a Little Boy’s Heartbreaking Death Woke Us Up to the Refugee Crisis
The Red Cross was able to help about 5 refugees arriving in a rubber boat from Bodrum in Turkey on the Greek island of Kos. Aylan Kurdi was not so lucky. (IFRC / Flickr) The hundreds of refugees...
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That Viral Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity Video Isn’t an Isolated Incident
The Alpha Tau Omega house at Indiana University. (Facebook) Get ready to lose all faith in humanity. Fraternity hazing is at it again. Who is it this time? Alpha Tau Omega at Indiana University. A...
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