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‘We Either Buy Insulin or We Die’

The high (and rising) cost of insulin is forcing diabetics to risk their lives to get the drug.

Police fired 55 times at Willie McCoy. An investigation called it ‘reasonable’

Impossible – just an execution for the hell of it – cause they can get away with that!

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The 20-year-old aspiring rapper had been sleeping in his car at a Taco Bell when Vallejo police shot him

The California police officers who killed Willie McCoy, a 20-year-old who had been sleeping in his car, fired 55 bullets at him in 3.5 seconds – which was “reasonable”, according to the city of Vallejo’s hired consultant.

Officials disclosed the extraordinary number of rounds in a report released this week, months after six policemen shot the aspiring rapper who had fallen asleep inside his car at a Taco Bell. The 9 February killing, which McCoy’s family has called an “execution by a firing squad”, sparked national outrage and has led to intense scrutiny of the Vallejo police department’s frequent use of deadly force and history of misconduct and abuse cases.

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Trump: if foreign power offered dirt on 2020 opponent, ‘I’d want to hear it’

Thinks he’s teflon don: President claims he would have no obligation to call the FBI, contradicting bureau director he appointed

Donald Trump said on Wednesday that if a foreign power offered dirt on his 2020 opponent, he would be open to accepting it, claiming he would have no obligation to call in the FBI.

“I think I’d want to hear it,” Trump said in an interview with ABC News, adding: “There’s nothing wrong with listening.”

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President claims he would have no obligation to call the FBI, contradicting bureau director he appointed

Donald Trump said on Wednesday that if a foreign power offered dirt on his 2020 opponent, he would be open to accepting it, claiming he would have no obligation to call in the FBI.

“I think I’d want to hear it,” Trump said in an interview with ABC News, adding: “There’s nothing wrong with listening.”

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