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DeMaurice Smith wants the NFL to remove Rooney Rule as NFLPA CEO

DeMaurice Smith wants the NFL to remove Rooney Rule as NFLPA CEO

DeMaurice Smith is entering his final days as executive director of the NFL Players Association after 14 years in the role following the election of Lloyd Howell to succeed him. But Smith won't be leaving without one last stand with the NFL owners. In a 100-page document, obtained by Yahoo Sports, Smith and Carl Lasker, a Yale law student and Smith's teaching assistant, called for the removal of the Rooney Rule because they believe it has failed its purpose. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM DeMaurice Smith, executive director of the NFL Players Association, speaks at a press…
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Freedom Caucus members voted to oust Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.  It is not clear if it worked.

Freedom Caucus members voted to oust Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. It is not clear if it worked.

WASHINGTON — Nearly two weeks ago, members of the House Freedom Caucus voted to expel Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, from the ultra-conservative group. It is not yet clear if that vote was successful.Since that June 23 Freedom Caucus meeting, Chairman Scott Perry, R-PA, and Greene have had multiple conservations. But a Republican source familiar with those conversations said Perry has not directly notified Greene that she has been removed from the caucus.Another Republican source, who requested anonymity to discuss the internal deliberations, said Perry hasn't brought it up because he wants to sit down and talk to…
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Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office opens investigation after ‘disturbing’ video shows deputy pulling woman to the ground

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office opens investigation after ‘disturbing’ video shows deputy pulling woman to the ground

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has opened an investigation after "disturbing" body camera footage showed an officer threatening to punch a woman in the face and then throw her to the ground during an arrest for an alleged robbery at a grocery. The department released two videos Wednesday following a Press conference to address the June 24 incident at a Lancaster grocery store. The two deputies involved have been reassigned from field duty pending further investigation, a spokesman said. Their names have not been released.The department called the videos "disturbing." The Los Angeles Sheriff's Professional Association did not immediately…
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Russian media claim to show the house of Yevgeny Prigozhin of the Wagner Group

Russian media claim to show the house of Yevgeny Prigozhin of the Wagner Group

Pictures of what appears to be Prigozhin's home show the opulence of the Wagner boss's lifestyle, including lavish décor, a private heliport and spa along with well-equipped medical and private prayer rooms. It also shows gold bars, boxes filled with reams of cash, several passports, a cache of weapons, several items bearing the Wagner insignia, and several wigs.A giant sledgehammer was also displayed in one of the rooms, a potential nod to a video shared online earlier this year that appeared to show a Wagner fighter who had defected to Ukraine being sledgehammered to death by his former comrades. Izvestia…
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