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US President Donald Trump participates in calls to US service members, on Christmas Eve, from the Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, December 24, 2025. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP / Getty Images)

Trump posts video of Obamas as apes

Jelinda Montes
Former President Barack Obama speaks with President-elect Donald Trump before the state funeral for former President Jimmy Carter at the Washington National Cathedral on January 9, 2025. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's Obama threats are very real

Chauncey DeVega
House Republican Conference Chair Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Doubling down on "great replacement"

Jon Skolnik
(AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Hate crimes on the rise in America

Brian Levin, James J. Nolan, John David Reitzel - The Conversation
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Roseanne Barr; Valerie Jarrett; Susan Rice (AP/Getty)

Not just Valerie: Roseanne's racist past

Shira Tarlo
Derrick Johnson, left, president of the Mississippi NAACP, center left, talks to the media on behalf of Stacey Payton, center right, and Hollis Payton, behind his wife Stacey, in front of the Stone County Courthouse in Wiggins, Miss., Monday, Oct. 24, 2016. Johnson is demanding a federal investigation after the parents said four white students put a noose around their son's neck at school. (Max Becherer, AP)

Sophia Tesfaye
(Fox News)

Carson & Kelly flip out

Sophia Tesfaye
(Facebook)

Sophia Tesfaye
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Carson's breathtaking delusion

Sophia Tesfaye
Craig Brittain, Jan Rankowski (CBS4/YouTube/ParkourDude91)

Bros get taste of own medicine

Katie McDonough
Jeffrey Follmer, Andrew Hawkins (MSNBC/AP/Tony Dejak/Photo montage by Salon)

Cops' last hope at credibility

Katie McDonough
John W. Milam and Roy Bryant, who were charged with the murder of 14-year-old African American Emmett L.Till, and acquitted by an all-white jury. (AP)

A legacy predating Ferguson

Agunda Okeyo
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Lesley McSpadden, right, the mother of Michael Brown, watches as Brown's father, Michael Brown Sr., holds up a family picture, Aug. 11, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. (AP/Jeff Roberson)

Ferguson's massive problem

Katie McDonough
George Zimmerman (Reuters/Gary W. Green)

"A matter of death and death"

Aura Bogado
A mourner holds an obituary showing a picture of 19-year-old shooting victim Renisha McBride during her funeral service in Detroit, Michigan November 8, 2013. (Reuters/Joshua Lott)

Katie McDonough
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-81193p1.html'> Cheryl Casey </a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Katie McDonough
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