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Big Tobacco, Big Settlement: A Minimum of $206 BILLION Over 25 Years

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Racist Professor: ‘I was fired because I’m black’

Essex County College professor Lisa Durden was fired after officials say she made racially insensitive comments on Fox News – but instead of apologizing for using racism in order to fight racism, she turned the tables claiming she was fired because of her race. She appeared on Fox News’ Tucker… Read More

Bad grammar just killed someone (for real!)

A Spanish court says a bungee jumping instructor’s poor English may have led a 17-year-old Dutch woman to jump to her death without being connected by rope to a viaduct in northern Spain two years ago. The northern Cantabria regional court says the instructor’s order of “no jump,” instead of… Read More

Detroit fire tragically kills young twin boys, grandmother

A woman who died along with her 3-year-old twin grandsons following an early-morning house fire Tuesday in Detroit was found inside with one of the children in her arms, apparently trying to escape the blaze, a fire official said. Firefighters were called to the home about 12:40 a.m. and found… Read More

Caught! TSA agent fired for stealing cash from passengers

A Transportation Security Administration employee at a Florida airport has been fired after police said surveillance video showed him stealing cash. The Orlando Sentinel reports 22-year-old Alexander Shae Johnson was arrested Thursday. Court records show he faces a third-degree felony grand theft charge. An Orlando police report says a passenger… Read More

Study PROVES liberals’ living wage leads to unemployment

Seattle’s $15-an-hour minimum wage law has cost the city jobs, according to a study released Monday that contradicted another new study published last week. A University of Washington team studying the law’s effects found that the law has boosted pay in low-wage jobs since it took effect in 2015, but… Read More

Donors to GOP: ‘The piggy bank is closed!’

At least one influential donor has informed congressional Republicans that the “Dallas piggy bank” is closed until he sees major action on health care and taxes. Texas-based donor Doug Deason has already refused to host a fundraiser for two members of Congress and informed House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.,… Read More

Marines make headway in Afghanistan under Trump

In Afghanistan’s turbulent Helmand province, U.S. Marines are rekindling old relationships and identifying weaknesses in the Afghan forces that the Trump administration hopes to address with a new strategy and the targeted infusion of several thousand American forces. Returning to Afghanistan’s south after five years, Marine Brig. Gen. Roger Turner… Read More

American medical student dies hiking in Peru

University of South Carolina officials say a medical student has died in an apparent hiking accident while on a medical outreach mission trip in Peru. USC spokesman Wes Hickman told news outlets on Saturday that Seth Thomas, a second-year medical student, is believed to have died because of a hiking… Read More