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US woman deliberately hits teen with car in racial attack

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A woman in the US is charged with attempted murder after she told police that she intentionally steered her car onto a footpath and ran over a 14-year-old girl because she believed the teenager was Mexican.

Kentucky ex-governor pardoned child rapist because victim’s hymen was intact

height and low of stupidity and immorality

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Matt Bevin under avalanche of criticism after pardoning 428 people in final days of term including two convicted child rapists

When the former Republican governor of Kentucky Matt Bevin was asked in a recent radio interview how he could justify having pardoned on his last day in office a child rapist, he replied: “Which one?”

The interview went downhill from there. Bevin said he had allowed Micah Schoettle, 41, who was serving a 23-year sentence for rape, incest, sodomy and other sexual offenses to walk free last week after less than 18 months in prison because his nine-year-old victim had been found to have her hymen intact.

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Three generations of Windrush family struggling to prove they are British

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Courtney Lawrence and two-year old son face homelessness in fight over documentation

Three generations of one Windrush-descended family are struggling to prove that they are British in a protracted fight for documentation which has left a London-born woman facing homelessness with her two-year-old son.

Courtney Lawrence, 25, was denied emergency housing in May because officials said she needed to show a passport to prove she was eligible for council support, despite the fact that she was born in the UK and has never left the country. As a result of this refusal she was forced to sofa-surf with her son for five months; she has subsequently been given emergency accommodation in a Travelodge hotel.

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Rightwing group pushes Wisconsin voter purge that ‘could tip’ 2020 election

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County circuit judge sided with group known as Will and ordered Wisconsin to remove 234,000 voters from voting rolls

A conservative group is forcing Wisconsin to remove upwards of 230,000 people from state voter rolls more than a year earlier than planned, a move that would disproportionately affect Democrats before the 2020 election.

The group behind the lawsuit, the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (known as Will), is a legal advocacy group that has backed conservative causes across the state since the beginning of the decade. Led by Rick Esenberg, Will has defended rollbacks on public sector union power, promoted charter schools, and challenged campaign finance restrictions among other issues.

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Accusing Bernie Sanders of antisemitism? That’s a new low | Kate Aronoff

The allegations should be called for what they are: politiking in service of politicians who will put more Jews in danger

Bernie Sanders – son of Dorothy and Elias Ben Yehuda Sanders, who emigrated from Poland in 1921 to escape antisemitism, and whose family that remained in Poland was slaughtered in the Holocaust – is not antisemitic. But some are trying to convince you that he is.

The conservative Washington Examiner’s Tiana Lowe published a story accusing the Sanders campaign of being the “most antisemitic in decades”. Worth noting is that Lowe expressed gratitude several months back for her grandfather’s service to the Chetniks, a nationalist armed front which collaborated with the Nazis and delivered thousands of Jews to them in service of building an ethnically homogenous Greater Serbia. She also posed for a picture with Milo Yiannopoulos, who once sent $14.88 on PayPal to a Jewish journalist, a reference to Nazi slogans.

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