Did George Zimmerman Really Get Punched Last Weekend?
Hudson Hongo · 08/04/16 09:46PMCalifornia Mayor Charged With Secretly Recording Underage Strip Poker Game
Hudson Hongo · 08/04/16 05:38PMPolice Say Instagram Posts May Have Contributed to Korryn Gaines' Death
Brendan O'Connor · 08/04/16 03:08PMLAPD Cops Who Killed Black Man Sue Department for Racial Discrimination
Andy Cush · 08/04/16 01:35PMTwo years ago, LAPD officers Sharlton Wampler and Antonio Villegas shot and killed Ezell Ford, a 25-year-old who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Now, they are suing, alleging that the department is racially discriminating against them by keeping them on desk duty, because Ford was black and they are not.
Hamilton Nolan · 08/04/16 01:20PM
Russian Prime Minister Tells Underpaid Teachers To Get Side Jobs, Figure “Something" Out
Marina Galperina · 08/04/16 01:00PMAt a public forum on Wednesday, a teacher asked Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev why teachers earn so little while cops earn so much, relatively—according to the Moscow Times, the starting monthly salary for educators is 10,000-15,000 rubles ($150-$225); law enforcement officers earn 50,000 rubles ($750) per month. The teacher tactfully inquired if the government was going to do about that.
NYPD's "Viral Grinding Cop" Shines In New Role As "Viral Racist Facebook Cop"
Jordan Sargent · 08/04/16 12:50PMThe NYPD has, according to various reports, been “investigating” years-old racist Facebook posts made by one of its patrolmen. “Racist cop” is not exactly the most surprising news the world has ever presented us. What’s noteworthy about this instance of racism from a person nominally sworn to equally protect all citizens is that the policeman, Gregory Gordon, is already infamously known as the NYPD cop caught wining with various women at the city’s West Indian Parade in 2011.
Sources: "Dumb-Dumb" Trump to Blame For Campaign Disarray
Ashley Feinberg · 08/04/16 12:20PMBen Carson Will Never Not Speak His Truth
Brendan O'Connor · 08/04/16 12:05PMSmall Town Newspaper Owned by Roger Ailes’ Wife Goes to Bat for Roger Ailes
J.K. Trotter · 08/04/16 11:45AMRoger Ailes, who resigned as CEO of Fox News after a barrage of sexual harassment allegations from female subordinates, is married to Elizabeth Ailes, the owner and publisher of the Putnam County News & Recorder, a broadsheet newspaper in Philipstown, New York, where the couple maintains a summer home. Ailes’ ownership of the paper has not been without controversy—mostly, but not entirely, of the hometown-scandal variety—but its editors have avoided covering the dramatic downfall of the owner’s famous husband. Until today.
Andy Cush · 08/04/16 11:32AM
Thanks to a newly released FBI file, we now know that the rabid anti-communist Ayn Rand was very thirsty for attention from the bureau’s equally rabid director J. Edgar Hoover, but Hoover repeatedly snubbed her. “But if you wish to speak to one of my assistants...” he once wrote, “please feel free to communicate.”
Good Help Is So Hard to Find These Days
Gabrielle Bluestone · 08/04/16 11:20AM“She didn’t separate any of the clothes and just threw all of the laundry together... I was so upset because in the wash there were gifts people had given me, baby blankets, towels, and they were all dyed blue,” TV producer Amy Pack testified this week in the criminal trial of her maid, Jasmin Figueroa.
Mike Pence Confronted by Precocious Fictional Twitter Child Come to Life in North Carolina
Brendan O'Connor · 08/04/16 11:00AM"Blue Lives Matter" Is the Inevitable Endpoint of Hate Crime Laws
Hamilton Nolan · 08/04/16 10:30AMNotorious UC-Davis Chancellor Charged School Big Money For Lavish Travel
Hamilton Nolan · 08/04/16 09:10AMNude Photos Raise Legal Questions About Melania Trump's Early Immigration Status
Brendan O'Connor · 08/04/16 08:51AM95 Days and a Wake Up
Brendan O'Connor · 08/04/16 07:36AMOverburdened Public Defender's Office Orders Missouri Governor to Defend Poor Client
Hudson Hongo · 08/03/16 09:45PMTaking advantage of a law that allows him to assign any case to any member of the state bar, Missouri’s chief public defender, Michael Barrett, appointed Missouri Governor Jay Nixon (a fiscally conservative Democrat finishing his second term) as the defense attorney of a poor client this week, citing the governor’s refusal to provide his office with the resources it needs.