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South Carolina Town Bans Saggy Pants

“It is indecent. My 8-year-olds have pointed out to me men with their belt buckles right over their privates. That, in my eyes, is very near exposure.”

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Saggy Pants

Better pull those breeches up! A South Carolina town passed an ordinance on Tuesday banning saggy pants that "intentionally" display undergarments, according to local reports. The Timmonsville Town Council approved the new rules on Tuesday night in a 5-1 vote, WBTW-TV reported.  The ordinance bans people from being naked in public, showing

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Animal Rights Activists Infiltrate Tyson Plant For Fourth Time In Less Than A Year

In the new video released on Tuesday by Mercy for Animals, sickly birds covered in fecal matter, a dying bird covered in insects, and a front-end loader scooping up hundreds of dead birds and dropping them into a dumpster.

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Screenshot from Tyson Caught on Hidden Camera Ripping Heads Off Live Animals taken by Mercy for Animals.

For the fourth time in less than a year, an anti-animal cruelty group has infiltrated a facility connected to mega-meat supplier Tyson Foods and secretly filmed graphic video showing what they contend is inhumane treatment of chickens grown by America's biggest poultry producer. The new video from the Los Angeles-based Mercy for Animals was

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Obama Administration Keeps Public In Dark About ‘Black Budget’ Requests

The self-professed “most transparent” administration congratulates itself for complying with a mandatory disclosure requirement.

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President Barack Obama, left, sits with filmmaker Steven Spielberg, center, and Israeli Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer, right, at the Righteous Among the Nations Award Ceremony at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016.(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

The self-described “most transparent administration in history” declined to say how much it seeks to bill taxpayers for individual spy agencies as part of President Barack Obama's final budget request to Congress. Disclosing any agency-specific information -- such as whether the controversial National Security Agency or lesser-known National

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Virginia Man Dies After Being Tasered Over 20 Times While In Police Custody

Police Chief James Binner stated that “The deployments of Tasers when a subject has become violent, causing damage to property and placing the safety of persons at risk, as was the case with Linwood Lambert Jr., is appropriate and necessary use of force.”

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Linwood Lambert, 46, was tased over 20 times in thirty minutes by police the night he died

A hearing in a wrongful death lawsuit for a man who died in police custody begins Thursday in Virginia. Linwood Lambert, 46, was tased over 20 times in thirty minutes by police the night he died, according to Joe Messa, an attorney for the Lambert family. Lambert's sister, Gwendolyn Smalls, filed the $25 million wrongful death lawsuit against

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Ben Carson Gets Defensive About CNN Questions Around His Violent Past And Being Saved By Christianity

Carson’s personal narrative — a centerpiece of his campaign and star power — has long revolved around his accounts of his violent past and descriptions of the healing powers of his faith.

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Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson poses for a photo with Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity members at Iowa State University following a campaign stop, Saturday, Oct. 24, 2015, in Ames, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Ben Carson is attacking the media over reports that call claims about his youth into question. “This is a bunch of lies, that is what it is,” Carson said Friday on CNN’s New Day. “This is a bunch of lies attempting to say I’m lying about my history, I think it’s pathetic, and basically what the media does is they try to get you

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Mississippi Walmart Bombed In Homegrown Terrorist Attack For Refusing To Sell Confederate Flags

The man posted threatening messages missed by law enforcement days before the attack: “Journal corporate, you are on final warning,” “You are part of the problem. As a result of this, y’all are going down, along with Walmart, WTVA, Reeds department store, and all the rest of the anti-American crooks. I’m not kidding. No messing around anymore!”

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A Confederate flag flies next to the Alabama Confederate Memorial on the grounds of the Alabama Capitol

JACKSON, Miss. — A man is charged after allegedly setting off an explosive at a Mississippi Walmart Sunday morning. Marshall W. Leonard, 61, of Tupelo, will be charged with placing an explosive device. Under Mississippi Code 97-37-25 he could get life in prison if convicted, the Tupelo Daily Journal reported. Tupelo Police Chief Bart

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Activist Group Secretly Records Tyson Foods Workers Punching, Throwing And Pulling Heads Off Of Live Chickens At Mississippi Plant

Both Tyson’s and McDonald’s expressed concern about what was seen in the video footage, and Tyson’s announced severed its relationship with the farm.

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Screenshot from Tyson Caught on Hidden Camera Ripping Heads Off Live Animals taken by Mercy for Animals.

(USA TODAY) -- An anti-animal cruelty group says it has secretly recorded Tyson Foods workers punching, throwing and pulling the heads off of live broiler chickens at one of the mega meat producer's plants in Mississippi where up to 2.5 million chickens are slaughtered each week. Vandhana Bala, a lawyer for the group Mercy for Animals, which

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