Investigator: Murdered DNC Staffer Seth Rich Was In Contact With Wikileaks

Many believe Seth Rich was a victim retaliation for being the source who provided Wikileaks with a trove of DNC emails.

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Seth Rich, a DNC staffer, was killed on July 10 in Washington, D.C.

It's been close to a year since Seth Rich, the 27-year-old computer expert who worked for the DNC, was murdered - shot twice in the back without anything of value taken from him. Rich was found alive and in shock, before he bled out - his death ruled nothing more than a botched robbery. Many believe Rich was a victim retaliation for being the

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Facebook Adding 3,000 Workers To Monitor Crime And Suicide

In addition to violence, the crackdown also targets “hate speech and child exploitation.”

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Facebook's Secret Censorship Rules Protect White Men From Hate Speech But Not Black Children

Facebook's latest response to the public outcry that resulted from the recent live streaming of a murder on the social network, was announced moments ago when on his personal blog, Mark Zuckerberg announced that over the next year, Facebook "will be adding 3,000 people -- on top of the 4,500 we have today -- to review the millions of reports we get

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1 Killed, 2 Hospitalized In Racially Motivated Kansas City Bar Shooting

Asked at a news conference Thursday if the involvement of federal authorities indicated the shooting might be considered a hate crime, FBI special agent Eric Jackson said it was too early to determine.

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By Associated Press
Adam Purinton, of Olathe, Kan. was arrested early Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, in connection with a shooting at a bar in Olathe that left one person dead and and wounding two others. (Henry County (Mo.) Sheriff's Office via AP)

OLATHE, Kan. (REPORT) — A man has been charged with murder in what some witnesses described as a racially motivated shooting at a crowded suburban Kansas City bar that left one Indian man dead and two other men hospitalized. Local police are working with the FBI to investigate the shooting Wednesday night in Olathe, Kansas, but have declined to

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The Wheels Of Justice Won’t Budge For A Scottish Woman Killed In Israel

The case of Julie Pearson is bigger than the death of one woman and her family’s ongoing struggle for justice. It’s a lens through which to view larger institutional and cultural failings that allow violence against women to go unpunished almost as a matter of routine in Israel.

Richard Silverstein
By Richard Silverstein
Julie Pearson was found dead in Israel last November, allegedly beaten to death by her boyfriend. Her family in Scotland has waited, with increasing frustration, for the creaky wheels of Israeli justice to turn for Julie. This week marks the one-year anniversary of her tragic death.

SEATTLE --- When you’ve studied the Israeli-Arab conflict for as many decades and from as long a geographical distance as I have, you tend to emphasize major events and phenomena: the Occupation, wars, armies, Zionism, Palestinian nationalism, etc. It seems only natural to focus mainly on the Big Picture. Of course, the real tragedy is writ

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Number Of U.S. Police Officers Charged With Murder Or Manslaughter For On-Duty Shootings Tripled in 2015

Experts say a higher abundance of video evidence may be the cause.

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By Associated Press
Screenshot from the by-stander's video footage which shows Officer Michael Scott in the process of shooting a fleeing Walter Scott in the back.

CHICAGO  -- The number of U.S. police officers charged with murder or manslaughter for on-duty shootings has tripled this year - a sharp increase that at least one expert says could be the result of more video evidence. In the past, the annual average was fewer than five officers charged. In the final weeks of 2015, that number has climbed to 15,

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Suspicious Death Ruled Suicide By Police Now Being Investigated As Murder

Authorities have said the 28-year-old woman from Naperville, Illinois, hanged herself with a plastic garbage bag.

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By Associated Press
In this July 13, 2015, frame taken from video provided by the Waller County Sheriff's Department from a motion-operated camera, emergency personnel carry a gurney near Sandra Bland's jail cell, at the Waller County jail in Hempstead, Texas. The video, released Monday, July 20, shows there was no activity for about 90 minutes in the hallway leading to the cell where authorities say Bland was found hanged, three days after her arrest. (Waller County Sheriff's Department via AP)

HEMPSTEAD, Texas  — A Texas prosecutor says the death of a black woman whose family disputes authorities' finding that she hanged herself in a jail cell is being examined as thoroughly as a murder investigation. Waller County District Attorney Elton Mathis said Monday that there are many unanswered questions about the death of Sandra Bland, who

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