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Tom Steyer Rejoices over Brown’s Speech

Billionaire hedge fund manager Tom Steyer, lately obsessed with climate change, euphorically described California Governor Jerry Brown as “shockingly effective” after attending Brown’s swearing-in Monday morning and Brown’s subsequent speech.

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Vallejo, CA Residents Rally for Police

In Vallejo, CA, roughly 30 miles north of San Francisco, roughly 60 demonstrators rallied Saturday in support of their police officers, according to the Vallejo Times-Herald. The police supporters met in front of the Vallejo Police Department, holding signs emblazoned with messages such as “police lives matter.”

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MA Woman Hurls Pork Products at Police, Calling Them ‘Pigs’

A police officer working in the Framingham, MA Police Department got a belated Christmas present Friday morning: a young woman carrying a doughnut box filled with raw bacon and sausage allegedly hurled them at him and smeared the meat on the window in front of him. Lindsay McNamara, 24, who claimed God told her to go “feed the pigs,” was arrested immediately and charged with disorderly conduct and malicious destruction of property.

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More Violence Erupts in St. Louis

After an armed black man, Antonio Martin, was killed Tuesday night by St. Louis police in Berkeley, a suburb of St. Louis, violence erupted. More than 100 people at the gas station where Martin was shot violently clashed with police.

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Polanski Rebuffed in Latest Attempt to Dismiss Charges

Celebrated film director and expatriate Roman Polanski, 81, failed in another attempt to have a court dismiss decades-old sexual assault charges against him so he can return to the United States. On Tuesday, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge James

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Obama, in Tiara, Continues ‘War on Women’ Theme

In attempting to inculcate young girls with his administration’s “War on Women” theme, Barack Obama made a point of making the central theme of the 2014 White House Science Fair last May the paucity of women in the sciences. To show how much he identified with women’s plight, he donned a tiara while posing with the Girl Scout Troop 2612 from Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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Tiny Utah Town Brings Christmas Spirit to World

A tiny little town is Utah is showing the world the Christmas spirit in a most gigantic way. Fountain Green, Utah, which boasts barely more than 1,000 people, held its first Christmas Light parade on Tuesday, organized chiefly for six-year-old Addie Fausett, who has a terminal brain disease.

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Barack and Michelle Obama Send Christmas Greetings

Americans received a special Christmas present from the White House: a two-for-one package. Barack Obama’s weekly message also featured a message from his wife and even took the time to mention Jesus, despite the fact that the Obamas have traditionally eschewed going to church on Christmas.

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NYPD Cop Killer Had No Connection to Compton

According to the L.A. Sheriff’s Department and the Los Angeles Police Department, Ismaaiyl Brinsley, 28, who ambushed and executed two NYPD officers on Saturday afternoon, had no known connections to the city of Compton.

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Florida Passes New York in Population

New York, which trailed only California and Texas in population, is now trailing Florida, too, according to a new Census Bureau report. California boasts 38.8 million people, Texas ranks second with 26.96 million, but now Florida has 19.9 million, barely surpassing New York, with 19.7 million.

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Missing Oregon Cat Stows Away in Mattress

An Oregon cat stowed away in a mattress and is now missing after a man sold his girlfriend’s mattress without knowing the cat was inside. Hayley Crews’ boyfriend, Roy Dufek, sold her mattress for $100 while she was at work,