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Comedian Kathy Griffin, who found herself the subject of a major political backlash earlier this year, thanked NFL free agent Colin Kaepernick for his activism. “I’m proud of you [Colin Kaepernick.] Your activism has come at a price but you haven’t backed down…not even once.

Sen. MORE (D-Hawaii) blasted President Trump for dedicating a golf trophy to hurricane victims, saying the move struck him “as very ‘let them eat cake.’” “Maybe I'm blinded by my anger but the dedication of a golf trophy to people suffering strikes me as very ‘let them eat cake,’” Schatz tweeted Sunday.     Trump dedicated the trophy at the Presidents Cup golf tournament to victims of the hurricanes that have struck the U.S.

Democratic lawmakers are blasting President Trump for dedicating a golf trophy to hurricane victims while Puerto Rico continues to recover from Hurricane Maria. Lawmakers took to Twitter to criticize Trump, who dedicated the trophy at the Presidents Cup golf tournament Sunday to the victims of the recent hurricanes that have struck the U.S. Rep.

A U.S. Navy jet is believed to have crashed in Tennessee, Navy officials said Sunday night. A Navy official told Fox News that a T-45 jet was missing after taking off from Mississippi earlier Sunday.

Facebook says that it will release the over 3,000 political ads purchased by Russian actors on its platform during the 2016 election to congressional investigators on Monday.   The moves comes after Facebook faced pressure from federal lawmakers like Sen.

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O. J. Simpson was released on parole in Nevada on Sunday after serving nine years in a state prison on charges stemming from an armed robbery in a Las Vegas hotel room in 2007. Mr. Simpson, 70, was released at 12:08 a.m. local time from Lovelock Correctional Center in northern Nevada, the Nevada Department of Corrections announced. It provided images of Mr. Simpson leaving the prison in a baseball cap, white tennis shoes, jeans and a denim jacket. It was unclear where Mr.

PARIS — Two women were killed in southern France on Sunday by an assailant armed with a knife, in an attack that forced the evacuation of a major train station, the authorities said. The assailant was fatally shot by a military patrol after killing the women in front of the Saint-Charles train station in the Mediterranean port city of Marseille.