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Jay-Z won a court battle on Wednesday in a lawsuit against his company Roc Nation, on somewhat unusual grounds: The rapper-entrepreneur argued that the lack of African-American arbitrators presiding over the case left him susceptible to unconscious racial bias. The suit has to do with Jay-Z’s Rocawear clothing brand, which he sold in 2007 to…
Photo: Jeff Swensen/Getty Jeffrey R. Clark Jr., a 30-year-old living in the D.C. area, was arrested last week after his relatives alerted the police about his alarming violent, white supremacist statements. Clark has since been arrested and charged with illegally possessing a firearm and a high-speed magazine, according to the Washington Post. Clark’s relatives became…
A year-and-a-half before he took responsibility for overseeing the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, Matthew Whitaker, now the acting attorney general, had already reached a conclusion. “The truth is there was no collusion with the Russians and the Trump campaign,” he said in an interview on the Wilkow Majority show. “There was…
Voting Machines: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesMiami-Dade election support specialists checking voting machines, Doral, Florida, August 8, 2018 Since the 2016 election, there has been a good deal of commentary and reporting about the threats to American democracy from, on the one hand, Russian interference by Facebook and Twitterbot-distributed propaganda, and on…
FERGUSON, MO – AUGUST 10: Demonstrators, marking the one-year anniversary of the shooting of Michael Brown, protest along West Florrisant Street on August 10, 2015 in Ferguson, Missouri. Mare than 100 people were arrested today during protests in Ferguson and the St. Louis area. Brown was shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer on…
The FBI has been alerted to an alleged plot to discredit special prosecutor Robert Mueller after a woman said she’d been offered money to falsely say that he’d sexually harassed her. “When we learned last week of allegations that women were offered money to make false claims about the Special Counsel, we immediately referred the…
Gov. Tom Wolf, center, walks with Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald Elected officials from Pittsburgh and around Pennsylvania are reacting to a shooting at a Squirrel Hill synagogue that has left multiple people dead and several injured. “This is an incredibly sad day for all of us,” Gov. Tom Wolf told reporters gathered near Tree of…
This is a breaking story, and it will be updated. Multiple people were killed and several were injured in a shooting Saturday at Tree of Life Synagogue in Squirrel Hill that’s being treated as a hate crime, according to police. A suspect is in custody. Law enforcement officials have not released the person’s name….
There are fatalities after a man opened fire during a Shabbat service on Saturday morning. Four police officers have also been shot and wounded. A suspect has been arrested. Multiple people have been killed, and four police officers wounded, after a gunman opened fire in a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Saturday morning. A suspect…
Photo: Melina Mara-Pool (Getty) Following Brett Kavanaugh’s unhinged performance at Thursday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing over allegations that he’d sexually assaulted Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, two of the institutions he claimed played a formative role in his life—and which formerly backed his credentials for the Supreme Court—have suddenly reversed course by either rescinding their support,…