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I looked up Joaquin Castro's political donations. This is proof that Joaquin is a disgusting racist. HE DID NOT DONATE TO BARACK OBAMA'S CAMPAIGN!

NEW YORK (AP) — Wilson Cruz, a co-star in the new Hulu animated children's series "The Bravest Knight," describes the show's dad couple this way: "We're not explaining homosexuality, or same-gender sexuality. We're talking about the love of a family." His words and those of his fellow Hulu father, T.R. Knight, speak loudly about the state of LGBTQ representation in TV fare for kids, a segment of media that has been broadening story lines over the last several years to include a range of non-binary characters. "It's these parents that love her and care about her. That's it," Knight told...

NEW YORK (AP) — Leonardo DiCaprio is taking his environmental passion up a notch. The actor is joining with billionaire investors and philanthropists Laurene Powell Jobs and Brian Sheth to create a new nonprofit environmental powerhouse charged with tackling climate change and the loss of biodiversity. It's called Earth Alliance and it hopes to protect ecosystems and wildlife, ensure climate justice, support renewable energy and secure indigenous rights.

The National Park Service (NPS) quietly removed a visitor center sign saying the glaciers at Glacier National Park would disappear by 2020 due to climate change. As it turns out, higher-than-average snowfall in recent years upended computer model projectionsfrom the early 2000s that NPS based its claim glaciers “will all be gone by the year 2020,” federal officials said.

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I just started a Change.org petition to have Jussie Smollett host the Oscars and I need signatures. I'm open to suggestions to edit the petition to increase the humor quotient. Ideas?

Dear Senator Feinstein, I am writing to you with concern about a colleague of yours that has committed crimes that should not go unpunished. I am requesting that my identity remain anonymous. The person in question has been continuously violating numerous laws for many years and I feel that it is time to expose this person and force her to face the justice that she deserves. I know the details of all the crimes involved, from violating national security to murder. One such incident was a staged suicide to cover up a murder, another being violating national security by keeping...

A DACA student who has been protesting outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility on the North Side is now in federal custody facing deportation, either a victim of retaliation for speaking his mind or a violator of immigration law accused of making threats against law enforcement. Sergio “Mapache” Salazar, 18, is being painted by his lawyers and supporters as coming under attack from federal agents because he’s calling for the elimination of ICE, the federal agency that has been a lightning rod over the Trump Administration’s crackdown on immigrants that included the now-abandoned practice of separating undocumented parents...

A man is dead after he was shot by a homeowner multiple times during an apparent home invasion Thursday afternoon in Schertz, according to authorities. The man was reportedly shot at 2:13 p.m. in a home in the 4000 block of Brook Hollow Drive, according to Schertz police. Detectives said the man had forced his way into the home while brandishing a handgun. Once inside, the homeowner shot the the man several times, investigators said. The man was taken to Brooke Army Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead shortly after he arrived, police said.

Democrats and Independents are planning at least five responses to President Trump's inaugural State of the Union address Tuesday night, a sign of a healthy appetite among the left to rebut Trump on his big night.

After #BoycottKeurig started trending on Twitter over the weekend, the coffee machine company’s CEO Bob Gamgort has expressed regret in an email to employees obtained by The Washington Post. In case you’re not up to speed, the company announced in a tweet on Saturday that they were halting advertising on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show following the anchor’s controversial comments about Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, who is facing allegations of sexual misconduct with teenage girls, one as young as 14.

Is this where it's all going?

~snip~ Six Flags Over Texas will remove the Confederate States of America flag from its lineup, and fly only U.S. flags, the company told mySA.com Friday morning following backlash earlier this week. ~snip~ The company flipped its decision Friday morning saying they strive to "make people happy and to create a fun, thrilling and safe family friendly experience for our guests.""We always choose to focus on celebrating the things that unite us versus those that divide us. As such, we have changed the flag displays in our parks to feature American flags," the park said in a statement.

Thousands filed into Newton Thursday afternoon for the 128th annual Soldiers Reunion Parade. During the parade, Channel 9 saw that one man with a gun was taken into custody. Eyewitness News reporter Dave Faherty witnessed the incident and said the man went over to some Civil War re-enactors and pepper sprayed them.

SAN ANTONIO - The San Antonio Fire Department announced the death of a 6-year-veteran of the agency during a massive 4-alarm fire at a strip center near Loop 410 and Ingram Road late Thursday night. Scott Deem died when he became trapped inside the fire at the Ingram Square shopping center, said Chief Charles Hood. Two other firefighters were injured in the fire were identified as Brad Phipps and Robert Vasquez. Phipps is in critical but stable condition, while Vasquez was treated at the hospital and released.

On Good Morning America Wednesday, ABC anchor, longtime Clinton Foundation donor and former Clinton staffer George Stephanopoulos grilled Trump’s campaign manager Kellyanne Conway on a laundry list of topics before asking this embarrassingly obtuse question: Is it ‘appropriate’ for Fox News’ Roger Ailes to advise Trump, after he’s been accused of sexual harassment?

Attention Secret Service: THIS IS A JOKE. Jocularity. Satire. Lame Humor. Okay?? ... Okay.