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A Toyota Prius driver who affixed a Starlink dish in the middle of his car's hood was ticketed by the California Highway Patrol on Friday. 'Sir I stopped you today for that visual obstruction on your hood. Does it not block your view while driving?' the officer asked, according to a post on CHP Antelope Valley’s Facebook page. 'Only when I make right turns...' the driver cheekily replied.

A motorcyclist was shot dead in the middle of a Texas highway after exchanging gunfire with a driver of a SUV during a road rage incident last Friday. The motorcyclist - JaDerek Gray, 19 - allegedly pointed a gun at a SUV driver who cut him off on Interstate 35 in Forth Worth before the driver pulled his own gun and shot Gray multiple times, Fox 4 reported. Police told Fox 4 they believe Gray also fired but didn't hit anyone and police believe the SUV driver acted in self-defense.

Debates are an opportunity to speak directly to voters. If you’re doing it right as a candidate, you’re just a more distilled version of your usual self. If you’re grasping for a debate strategy, you have bigger problems than debating: Your message should be a simple extension of your overall campaign message and strategy. Biden has both. Trump has neither.

Pardon the vanity. I'm looking for a copy of a post I've seen a number of times on this forum. The gist is about how this generation of white people had accepted the idea of looking past race and was ready to extend a hand in friendship to march off into the future, but then every POC group lined up to slam white people. I'm also looking for a copy of the graphic showing black and white silhouettes depicting the probability blacks getting killed by whites and whites getting killed by blacks.

The FBI believes a Virginia man accidentally amputated his own hand while making an explosive device that may have been designed with the aim to kill 'hot cheerleaders'. Cole Carini, 23, of Richlands, arrived at the Clinch Valley Medical Center on June 2 with a missing hand and shrael wounds on his neck and throat. Several fingers on his other hand were also missing. He claimed the injuries were the result of a lawn mowing accident.

An Oklahoma couple have been arrested after the husband allegedly shot and killed their daughter's boyfriend and his cousin when they showed up at their family home.

Dick's Sporting Goods CEO is considering launching a third-party presidential bid, which could pull votes away from Donald Trump in 2020. Ed Stack, a longtime Republican donor, is testing the waters for a run, a participant in a southern Wisconsin focus group told Politico.

A man walked 351 miles from an Indianapolis suburb to Wisconsin to have sex with a 14-year-old girl, the U.S. Attorney's office said. [snip] Unbeknownst to Jenkins, 'Kylee' was actually a Winnebago County Sheriff's Deputy assigned to the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. When he arrived in Winnebago County, Jenkins was arrested by local deputies and a special agent from the FBI. For his crime, Jenkins faces a mandatory minimum of 10 years in prison and a maximum life sentence if convicted.

Full title: Man, 46, arrested for punching Andy Dick outside a New Orleans bar 'claims the controversial comedian grabbed his genitals before the attack' Dick claims he was knocked unconscious for 15 minutes after he fell to the ground following the attack.

Prosecutors say the Chevy-versus-Ford debate in Bedford, Virginia, last week got so heated that Mark Edwin Turner, 56, stabbed his girlfriend, then shot the woman and her adult son, Logan Bailey, before barricading himself in a home for more than two hours.

Full Title: Neighbor broke into family's new home and took off his pants inside a 12-year-old girl's bedroom and GROWLED when confronted by her father who shot him six times

Full Title: Policewoman is shot dead by colleague in France as the pair played a game to see who was fastest on the draw A French policewoman has been shot dead by her own colleague after they played a game of Wild West-style 'fast draw' with their firearms. The 27-year-old woman and her 28-year-old colleague were standing guard at the entrance of the Paris police force's headquarters in the capital on Sunday. The pair reportedly decided to start playing with their weapons and drew their guns on one another, at which point one went off by accident.

Full Title: Two boys, 13 and 14, arrested after one of them tells Siri he wants to 'shoot up a school' and posts virtual assistant's response recommending several local schools on social media as a 'joke' Two Indiana boys are in custody after a 13-year-old told Siri that he was going to shoot up a school and then posted the virtual assistant's reply on social media. The Valparaiso Police Department said Thursday night that the incident started when a boy, 13, who is not being named, told Apple's virtual assistant: 'I am going to shoot up a school.' Siri then...

A Des Moines, Iowa man allegedly assaulted a convenience store clerk with a banana in a case that police initially believed was not real. Rogelio Tapia, 26, was arrested and charged with assault and other crimes after he allegedly used a piece of fruit as a weapon to attack a cashier at QuikTrip early Tuesday morning. Tapia was charged with assault on persons in certain occupations, simple assault, interference with official acts and third-degree criminal mischief

Being a Democrat must be a real burden. After all, hanging out with a bunch of ignorant rubes who don't understand the basic concepts of collectivism has to be tedious. And providing those ignorant rubes with some ejucatin is obviously more than a full-time job. And there are just so many ignorant rubes out there to be ejucatin. Look how many voted for President Trump! For some reason, us ignorant rubes just don't get it, despite the glorious public education we received. Twelve years of public education, plus four — or more — additional years in institutes of higher learning...

A Stanford administrator once told a fraternity to remove an American flag flying out front in order to 'improve its image on campus,' according to a new report. Stanford graduate Pablo Lozano says a residential education liaison made the suggestion in fall of 2017 while the Sigma Chi fraternity was on probation, the Stanford Review reports. During a meeting with the fraternity members, the administrator 'insinuated not only that the flag made others uncomfortable but that its being flown tainted Sigma Chi’s reputation and, presumably, worsened its chance of survival,' the student publication reported. Lozano said that the students discussed...

The shocking moment a man was shot multiple times after being disarmed in a bar fight with another patron has been caught on camera. The spiraling violence took place in an unidentified bar in Mexico on Saturday, according to Flyheight, and showed the unidentified male being blasted five times. The exchange between the men escalated after a bar-goer tried to step to and play peacemaker between the two parties.

A group of high school 'mean girls' have admitted to targeting and falsely accusing a boy of sexual assault because they 'just don't like him'. A 26-page federal lawsuit was filed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on the eve of October 3 - also known as Mean Girls Day in tribute to the 2004 cult classic - against a clique of five girls at Seneca Valley High School. The boy's parents describe the clique as 'mean girls' who 'conspired in person and via electronic communication devices to falsely accuse [their son] of sexual assault on two occasions.' Their son, referred to in...

An anti-vaccination nurse is under investigation after she reportedly considered taking a saliva sample from a toddler with measles and exposing her own unvaccinated son to the potentially deadly virus.

Cynthia Nixon saluted her son Samuel today as the pair celebrate the 14th Annual Trans Day of Action. The proud mom and Sex and the City star, who is currently running for Governor of New York, took to Instagram to post a picture of the pair and openly share for the first time that 21-year-old Samuel, born Samantha, is transgender.