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Donald Trump Piñatas Swing in Sacramento

Some members of the Latino community in California are beating the hell out of the latest Trump incarnation: a Trump piñata. Although the piñatas are unavailable in California, the family of Hector Barajas, a GOP strategist, bought some in Mexico

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Ole Miss, Mississippi State Football Coaches Address Confederate Flag

Now that the Confederate battle flag has been removed from the South Carolina capitol, football coaches at Mississippi’s major universities are being asked to weigh in on removing the state flag, the only flag in the union that contains the Confederate battle flag.

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Gov Deval Patrick Used Public Funds for Lavish Trips

Following the revelation from The Boston Herald that former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick’s administration secretly transferred nearly $27 million in public money to off-budget accounts funding a $1.35 million trade junket tab, the Herald has now revealed that Patrick and his wife used lavish amounts of funds for their trips around the world and his own trade missions.

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Some GOP Leaders Saw Planned Parenthood Video Weeks Ago

Two high-level Republican lawmakers had seen a video showing a Planned Parenthood executive discussing what the organization charges researchers from organs harvested from aborted babies–and were aware of it weeks before it caused an online furor.

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Iraqi Woman Charged with Sexually Assaulting 14-Year-Old Girl

According to CBS Detroit and the Grand Rapids Press, an Iraqi woman who claimed she fled Iraq because Baghdad was “hell,” made life hell for a 14-year-old girl in western Michigan and is now charged with sexual assault.

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Brown Signs Labor Bill for Pro Sports Cheerleaders

On Wednesday, Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill requiring professional sports teams to offer cheerleaders minimum wage, workers’ compensation, paid sick leave and rest breaks.

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Woman in Jenner Crash Blasts ESPY Award

The Prius driver who survived the February fatal multivehicle crash in which Bruce Jenner was involved implicitly condemned the ESPY awards for honoring Jenner with the Arthur Ashe Award Wednesday night.

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Outrage over ESPN Giving Bruce Jenner ‘Courage’ Award over Lauren Hill

The Internet sears with outrage over ESPN’s bestowal of the Arthur Ashe Courage Award on the Athlete Formerly Known as Bruce Jenner rather than giving it to Lauren Hill, the utterly courageous 19-year-old woman who battled inoperable brain cancer while playing basketball for Mount St. Joseph’s.

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Left Tries to Push Jerry Brown to Spend More

Left-wing Democrats in California are demanding that Governor Jerry Brown increase spending as he attempts to keep the state budget in the black. The battle allows rank-and-file Democrats to pose as champions of various issues dear to their constituents while Brown can be seen as a fiscal moderate.

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Mark Levin Warned in April of GOP Capitulation to iran Deal

Back in April, radio talk show host Mark Levin exploded in anger, warning that the United States Senate had capitulated to Barack Obama and rewritten the U.S. Constitution by giving up its power to stop the dangerous nuclear deal between the United States and Iran.

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Illegal Immigrant Who Killed Chandra Levy May Be Released

Attorneys for Ingmar Guandique, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador who murdered Washington intern Chandra Levy in 2001, will likely ask for Guandique to be released from jail while he awaits a retrial of his 2010 conviction. A hearing is scheduled for Tuesday.

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Man Impales Himself While Trespassing in Gated Area

On Sunday morning, a man trespassing at a gated apartment complex in Sacramento impaled his leg on the point of a wrought iron fence as he attempted to hop over it, according to News10 Sacramento.

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Obama Stretches ‘Antiquities Act’ to Include Three New National Monuments

On Friday, President Obama named three new national monuments: the 704,000-acre Basin and Range National Monument north of Las Vegas, the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument, a 100-mile stretch of land reaching across roughly 100 miles of northern California, and Waco Mammoth National Monument in Texas, according to the San Jose Mercury News.

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AR Man Arrested for Allegedly Bilking $592k from Feeding Program

On Wednesday, in Little Rock, an Arkansas man was arrested for fleecing a government summer feeding program out of hundreds of thousands of dollars meant to feed hungry children. A U.S. district court stated that Michael R. Lee, 24, bilked the Arkansas Department of Human Services out of $592,041.

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Confederate Flag First, Fleur-De-Lis Next?

Now that the Confederate flag has been used as an excuse to eviscerate the history of the South, others are looking to destroy more symbols that are part of the region’s history, including Louisiana’s fleur-de-lis.

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Jenner’s Fatal Crash Caught on Video

TMZ has released video of the moment Bruce Jenner’s Cadillac Escalade smashed into a Lexus from behind, triggering the death of its driver, Kim Howe, in the fatal crash. The February 7 incident, captured by the cameras on an MTA bus traveling in the opposite direction, shows Jenner hitting a Prius after plowing into the Lexus on Pacific Coast Highway.

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Russia Flies Heterosexual Flag

Izvestia reported on Wednesday that the United Russia party, which rules the Russian government, officially would unveil a new flag extolling the traditional heterosexual family in response to the U.S Supreme Court’s recent ruling legalizing same-sex marriage, according to the Moscow Times.

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Orange County Councilman in Trouble for Email Objecting to Gay Marriage

Newport Beach City Councilman Scott Peotter is the target of criticism after releasing an e-mail message attacking the gay rights movement and the White House for twisting the Biblical interpretation of the rainbow. The White House was illuminated in rainbow colors after the June 26 Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage.

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Mountain Lion Roams Streets of SF

According to a press release issued by the Presidio Trust, the National Park Service, and San Francisco Animal Care and Control, four sightings of a mountain lion have been reported around San Francisco since June 30.

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Report: Woman Who Took Selfie at Explosion Site Is DNC Spokeswoman

Christina Freundlich, a Democratic operative who took an Instagram selfie of herself grinning near the East Village gas leak explosion on March 26 that killed two people, has reportedly been named a spokesperson for the Democratic National Committee.

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NAACP Sues Its Cincinnati Branch

The NAACP’s national office is attacking its own Cincinnati branch, accusing it of trademark infringement and deceptive acts under Ohio law.

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Los Angeles: Violent Crime Up 12% in 2015

In April, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti boasted in his State of the City speech, “As long as I’m your mayor, I won’t duck bad news. I’m going to own it.” Garcetti may not want to own the newest data that shows that the overall crime rate in his city for the first half of 2015 spiked higher than any time in over ten years.

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