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Three UAlbany students, who claimed that they were the victims of a racially-motivated assault late last month, will be facing charges themselves because of the incident. The students, one of whom has been identified, claimed that they were riding a CDTA bus after 1 a.m. on January 30, when a large group of white people decided to attack them for no apparent reason, while hurling racial insults at them. Asha Burwell, the only one of the three who has been identified, took to Twitter to claiming, "I can't believe I just experienced what it's like to be beaten because of...

Accusing Senator Ted Cruz of voter fraud, Donald Trump today argued that Mr. Cruz "stole" the election in Iowa. "That is why all of the polls were so wrong, and why he got far more votes than anticipated," Mr. Trump said on Twitter, suggesting no one predicted that Mr. Cruz would win: Ted Cruz didn't win Iowa, he stole it. That is why all of the polls were so wrong and why he got far more votes than anticipated. Bad!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 3, 2016 Mr. Trump then went further, saying Mr. Cruz committed fraud, suggesting that Cruz's...

History Professor Julio Pino of Kent State has publicly praised al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, and has said that he will "bury" Washington, DC. Julio Cesar Pino is Associate Professor of History at Kent State University, Ohio and, despite being investigated by the FBI for possible ties to ISIS, he is still teaching there. More than the investigation, Pino has also publicly praised terrorist organizations on Facebook. Here, he praises "Sheikh" Osama bin Laden and the "brave warriors" of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula: Pino also mourned the death of bin Laden: He posted pictures of jihadists on his...

According to a new report from the New York Times, the State Department announced that 18 emails between President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will be withheld from release to the public. These emails "had been sent through Hillary Clinton's private computer server" on her private email. The report from the Times did not make the connection that Mr. Obama had lied. However, IOTW Report has found that this revelation proves that President Obama lied about how he gained knowledge of Ms. Clinton's server. According to CBS News, President Obama stated that he had no knowledge of Ms. Clinton's server...

Speaking at a summit in Switzerland last week, Facebook Sheryl Sandberg claimed that little children are now facing a "toddler wage gap." "We have a toddler wage gap," Ms. Sandberg said. "The boys are taking out the trash, it takes less time than cleaning the dishes and they get bigger allowances. We start out in our homes with these very different expectations and the time spent on these tasks is incredibly important." She continued, "Mothers will systematically overestimate their sons' crawling, and underestimate their daughters.'" Biases toward specific genders is like racism, Ms. Sandberg continued. "Men are promoted based on...

Despite the fact that there are no Christians, Jews, Hindus, or Buddhists in the Star Wars universe, Haroon Moghul appeared on the PBS NewsHour and lobbied for the inclusion of a Muslim Jedi in Episode VIII or IX. In a "NewsHour essay," Moghul explained, "With tensions between Muslims and our neighbors worse than I had ever known, I asked Abrams to add a positive Muslim character to one of these franchises." Maybe "a Jedi named Mohammed," he suggested. There are Jewish names in Star Wars, Moghul continued, as well as Christian ones. "We can accept a Ben Kenobi, though Ben's...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Thursday there's nothing wrong with a little deal-making to get things done. "You know what? There's a point at which: Let's get to be a little establishment," he told about 1,500 people at a rally at the Las Vegas South Point Resort and Casino. "We've got to get things done folks, OK? Believe me, don't worry. We're going to make such great deals." It was an effort by the billionaire developer to draw contrasts with Ted Cruz, his top rival in the Feb. 1 Iowa caucuses. The author of "The Art of the Deal"...

Calling the right to bear arms obsolete, Huffington Post writer Warren Blumenfeld is now demanding that the United States "repeal the Second Amendment now!" In his article "On Gun Violence: Uttering the Unutterable," Blumenfeld writes that he has to deliver hard truths. "I love life, and I love the people of my country far far far more than I value the "freedom" to bear arms," he begins his article. "We must repeal the Second Amendment now!" The Amendment is antiquated, according to Blumenfeld, who compares the amendment to the horse and buggy: "Possibly during former moments in our history, we...

Posting a Gawker article that pinned the San Bernardino shooting on "whites," Black Lives Matter leader DeRay Mckesson retweeted a comment that blamed "whiteness" for the attack: Gawker claimed "San Bernardino shooting suspects are probably Americans, not "terrorists."" It included lines such as, "The current suspects are supposedly white. In which case this is just another isolated incident of a loner gone wrong-isolated like the hundreds that came before it." Another Twitter user called on Mr. Mckesson to "Watch whiteness work," in reference to the shootings. Instead of just tweeting the article itself, Mckesson retweeted the "whiteness" message so it...

Congressman Chris Gibson of New York is calling for an investigation into Governor Andrew Cuomo's administration after learning hundreds of millions of dollars in loans went to Health Republic, an insurance co-op that lasted only two years, and which caused 215,000 New Yorkers to lose their insurance. Health Republic was founded in 2013 with $265 Million in federal loans. It soon became one of the largest health insurance cooperatives in the United States. Now it is no more after New York regulators discovered massive deficits in Health Republic's books. Originally ordered to close by December 31, regulators had to bump...

Black Lives Matter plans to boycott Black Friday, claiming that a way to spread awareness of their movement is to hurt the US economy. The group also wants "Black Friday" to be renamed "BlackLivesMatterFriday." "Let's hit America where it hurts!" reads BLM's website. "I challenge you not to spend one dime on "Black Friday". Let's black it out, and make sure not one black face is littering the local mall!" The group is using the catchphrase "Hands Up, Don't Shop:" A Facebook group devoted to the boycott exclaims that "we must slow or stop the american economy around retail Goods...

All classes on campus have been cancelled for the immediate future at Western Washington University because someone posted "hate speech" on social media yesterday. President Bruce Shepard sent out a message to students and staff today, saying that someone posted "hate speech" online "targeted at Western students of color." "I need to be VERY clear here," he wrote, "we are not talking the merely insulting, rude, offensive commentary that trolls and various other lowlifes seem free to spew, willy nilly, although there has been plenty of that, too. No, this was hate speech." Thus, all classes have been cancelled. President...

UMass-Amherst students are protesting their school's seal, claiming it promotes racism and violence, because it depicts a Native American holding a bow and an arrow. While the seal does depict an arm holding a sword, protesters have taken issue with the Native American man centered in the logo. The Indian can be seen standing in the center: "We do live in occupied, colonized land," said student organizer Charlotte Kelly, who called the logo "offensive." She continued, "This land had been a part of indigenous communities before it became the University of Massachusetts. And for us to be capitalizing and using...

Jennifer Harvey, a Professor of Religion at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, is calling on "white Christians" to repent for their forefathers' sins and their current privilege by paying reparations. Speaking at Drew Theological School, Dr. Harvey said that calling all races "equal" is "a morally incoherent paradigm" that cannot solve the racial injustices that are in the United States. Instead, white Christians need to "repent" by paying reparations to African Americans. "Reconciliation rests on the assumption that all of our differences can be similarly celebrated and embraced," she explained. "I can come to better love and appreciate your...

Writing for the Huffington Post, writer Shea Watts wonders aloud how the United States could possibly condemn ISIS when the US has been committing terrorism for hundreds of years. His article, "Looking Within: The Convenient Amnesia of American Terrorism," argues that Americans have perpetrated terrorism for centuries and that we must face these facts or else we are hypocrites for condemning the terror attacks in Paris last week. "How much blood is on our hands?" Watts asks. "What a shame that we, as a nation, have not looked upon our sins. We have not asked forgiveness for the the lives...

In the wake of protests at the University of Missouri, students of color at Guilford College are rallying against perceived racism on their campus. Guilford College is in Greensboro, North Carolina. Like their compatriots in Missouri, the protesting students have released a list of demands. If they are "not met within a week," protesters promise they will rally on campus again. Among other things the students want, they are pushing the college to have professors, administrators, and staff to admit they are racist, that no black people should be in any marketing campaigns for the time being, and an investigation...

The Huffington Post is out with a new article, which chronicles the "11 blackest moments" of the Obama Presidency. The article is aptly titled, "The 11 Blackest Moments In The Obama Presidency," with a subhead of "Thanks, Obama!" The article is not written ironically. According to the article's author, Zeba Blay, "Obama has always been in a precarious position where his blackness has been at various times a political hindrance." There there have been numerous times when "his blackness shines through." Among the "blackest" moments of President Obama's time in office, according to Blay: When President Obama made this face!...

A list of demands from "students of color at Simmons College" has been released to their college, with the explicit threat that if some of the demands are not met, there will be "further action." Like different campuses across the United States, African American students at Boston's Simmons College have been protesting perceived inequities at their university. Yesterday, they released a set of demands. "We demand a meeting with President Helen Drinan and Provost Katie Conboy on Friday, November 20, 2015 at 7:00PM in Evans Basement," the document reads. "This meeting time is non-negotiable," it continues. It then threatens, "If...

Hundreds of African American students and faculty members rallied against perceived racism at Purdue University this past weekend, holding signs and chanting things such as "Hey, hey, ho, ho, racism has got to go" and "Hell no, we won't go." The students also released a set of demands, listed in Purdue's student paper. Among students' demands, they call on Purdue to "revise" their "free speech policy" based on what they believe is "hate speech." Part of the list reads, "We demand that the free speech policy be revised to address hate speech in person and through social media. We demand...

Members of the Black Lives Matter are angry that the horrible terrorist attacks in Paris tonight has taken away the focus on their movement. Numerous "BLM" supporters have taken to social media to attack "white people," claiming that major terrorist attacks like Paris are, in fact, actually taking place in the United States every single day: