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Thomas Murray | August 1, 2016
According to the Pittsburgh Police Department, a Hillary Clinton supporter lit an American flag on fire in front of a crowd of Trump supporters, and then assaulted the man that tried to put it out. On Saturday, Joshua Sturman, 23, was waiting to hear Hillary Clinton speak at a rally that would take place later that afternoon in downtown Pittsburgh when he saw a crowd of Trump supporters that…
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Thomas Murray | July 29, 2016
A moment of silence for the cops who were killed in the line duty at the Democratic National Convention was cut short when "black lives matter" chants erupted from the otherwise quiet crowd.   During Thursday’s night section of the DNC, Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez, whose city saw five police officers killed and seven more wounded earlier this month in an ambush, asked the crowd for a…
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Thomas Murray | July 28, 2016
German Chancellor Angela Merkel made an early return from her summer holiday in Northern Germany to face down critics of her open-door refugee policy. An incredibly bloody week across Europe, including four attacks in Germany of which three were carried out by asylum seekers, has caused a resurgence of criticism for Merkel’s openness to accept immigrants.    In a press conference Thursday,…
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Thomas Murray | July 27, 2016
Some lottery winners decide that the best thing to do with their newfound fortune is to pay off bills, put some in savings, and then invest the rest. And when they invest, they usually prefer to do so in a legal enterprise -- but one such man must have watched too much “Breaking Bad.” Ronnie Music, Jr., a 45 year old Georgian man, won a $3 million windfall from a scratch-off lottery ticket…
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Thomas Murray | July 26, 2016
In a new study published Monday in the journal JAMA Pediatrics, researchers found that since Colorado legalized the recreational use of marijuana in January 2014, the state saw a sharp increase in the number of kids younger than 10 who became exposed to pot and needed to be hospitalized. The study showed that two years prior to Colorado's legalization of marijuana, the average rate of pot-…
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Thomas Murray | July 26, 2016
(Image source: Twitter) ISIS is claiming responsibility for beheading a French priest in a terrorist attack in Normandy. During an early mass on Tuesday morning, two terrorists burst into a Saint-Etienne-de-Rouvray church, taking the congregation as hostages. During the attack, an 84-year-old priest's throat was slit and a nun was injured. A spokesman for the Interior Ministry in Paris…
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Thomas Murray | July 25, 2016
A 27-year-old Syrian refugee who was denied asylum in Germany and was waiting to be deported killed himself and injured 15 others when he detonated a backpack full of explosives Sunday night outside of a music festival in southern Germany. The bomb went off around 10 p.m. local time near the entrance of a wine bar outside the Ansbach Open festival. The terrorist reportedly tried to enter the…
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Thomas Murray | July 25, 2016
On Friday, another attack on European civilians rocked Munich, Germany’s third largest city. In what was originally reported as a terrorist attack, a lone gunman killed nine people and injured 35 others, ten of whom were severely wounded. Here is what we know about what happened that day. The shooting started at a McDonald's near the Olympia shopping mall. The shooter used a fake Facebook…
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Thomas Murray | July 22, 2016
  UPDATE 4:30 P.M.: Munich police have now confirmed that there are eight dead from the attack. Shooters are still at-large. UPDATE 3:50 P.M.: Munich police have said that there are no links between the shooting and ISIS. Today is the five year anniversary of the Oslo massacre, where a German political extremist took the lives of 77 people. It is not confirmed if Friday's attack was…
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Thomas Murray | July 22, 2016
Last Sunday, Black Lives Matter activists and the Wichita Police Department put on a barbecue that gathered their community together. They held discussions about what the police were doing to protect their community and had a wonderful time. Almost everyone walked away with the feeling that the community was moving in the right direction. That same day, three cops were killed by a black man in…