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Trump ICE’s last racists acts: Deportation of Black immigrants
Sandwiched between the nation’s honoring of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on January 18 and the inauguration of President Biden on January 20, a deportation charter flight is scheduled to leave Florence (Arizona), for Mauritania on Tuesday.…
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FBI Warns of Armed Rallies While Trump Supporters say it’s a FBI “Trap”
The storming of the Capitol by pro-Trump anti-democracy rioters is reported to have caught the local police off guard. Trump supporters have a long history of violence, more recently culminating with the breaking into statehouses in Michigan…
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“A lose situation for us,” say black officers, as white officers raise thousands for terminated Adam Coy
A fundraising effort to support terminated Columbus Division of Police officer Adam Coy is currently ongoing among many Columbus police officers, asking 200 officers to give $20 a month to raise $4,000 a month.
The officer-initiated…
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Should You Be Worried About the New COVID Strains?
Should you be worried about the new COVID strains originating in the UK, South Africa, and elsewhere, and recently identified in the US, as well as newly identified strains that originated in the US and quickly became predominant in Central Ohio…
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