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Trump Uses Attacks To Justify Counter-Productive Anti-Muslim Policies

“You’ve known my plans all along and I’ve been proven to be right,” Trump said Wednesday.

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(ANALYSIS) — President-elect Donald Trump's plans for a Muslim ban or registry are still on the table, he suggested Wednesday afternoon, implying that the deadly attacks this week in Turkey and Berlin validated such discriminatory policies. Speaking to reporters outside his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida he said that "what's going on

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US Military Admits: We Deliberately Bombed A Hospital In Iraq

Military spokesperson says “it’s very difficult to ascertain with full and total fidelity” that no civilians were killed.

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Photo of Hellfire missiles being loaded onto a US military Reaper drone in Afghanistan by Staff Sgt. Brian Ferguson/U.S. Air Force

The U.S. military said Thursday that it intentionally bombed a hospital in Mosul, Iraq as part of its efforts to "eradicate" Islamic State (ISIS) fighters. The attack on the Al Salam hospital complex took place Wednesday at the request of Iraqi forces, with coalition aircraft using "precision-guided munitions," Air Force Col. John Dorrian,

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New Lawsuit Challenges Efforts To Stamp Out African-American Vote In NC

North Carolina is ‘ground zero in the intentional, surgical efforts by Republicans to suppress the voice of voters’

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President Barack Obama casts his ballot during early voting at the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center in Chicago, Ill., Oct. 25, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

With just over a week to go before Election Day, the North Carolina NAACP on Monday filed a lawsuit to stop what it describes as a Republican-led effort to snuff out the African-American vote. "This is our Selma and we will not back down and allow this suppression to continue," said Rev. William Barber II, president of the

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Amid Call For Trump Boycott, More Revelations About Nominee’s Problems With Women

Trump “is attempting to distract from his campaign’s real problems and his inability to be the leader of this great country.”

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Donald Trump's treatment of women and workers continues to receive media scrutiny this week as one union calls for a national boycott of all the real estate mogul's businesses. Unite Here launched the boycott earlier this week, saying Trump Hotel Las Vegas has failed to honor its obligation to bargain with its unionized workforce, which is

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In Defense Of The 14th Amendment, National Anthem Protests Spread

‘Our students are witnessing the erosion of the 14th Amendment right before their eyes.’

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This Sept. 21, 2016, file photo shows, Phoenix Mercury's Kelsey Bone, right, and Mistie Bass, second from right, kneeling during the playing of the national anthem before the start of a first round WNBA playoff basketball game a in Indianapolis.

From youthful to more seasoned athletes, from on the field and off, national anthem protests against racial injustice show no sings of abating since they were sparked by San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick one month ago. In fact, according to one observer, "his influence is growing." On Sunday, dismissing their coach's stance,

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Questions Remain As Police Release Video Of Fatal Charlotte Shooting

The release of dash cam and body cam footage follows days of protests and demands for footage to be made public

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This image made from video provided by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016 shows Keith Scott on the ground as police approach him in Charlotte, N.C., on Sept. 20, 2016.

Following days of demonstrations, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department on Saturday released footage of the fatal shooting of 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott. The release of dashboard camera and body camera footage came just one day after NBC released footage from Scott's wife, Rakeyia Scott, of the fatal encounter last Tuesday. Scott's

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New Data Confirms Saudi Arabia Targeting Civilians In Yemen

New data shows that Saudi forces have struck 3,158 non-military sites in Yemen.

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A young boy who lost his leg in the Yemen war uses a prosthetic limb at a government-run rehabilitation center in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, March 5, 2016. Yemen's conflict pits the government, backed by the Saudi-led coalition, against Shiite rebels known as Houthis allied with a former president. Yemen's war has killed at least 6,200 civilians and injured tens of thousands of Yemenis, and 2.4 million people have been displaced, according to U.N. figures. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Amid "unrelenting attacks on civilians and on civilian infrastructure" and as a new campaign aims to block the Obama administration from selling $1.15 billion worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia, new reporting sheds further light on the devastation the kingdom's military coalition, backed by the U.S. and U.K., has wrought on Yemen's

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