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The latest viral movement involves young Keaton Jones, a boy in Tennessee who has experienced brutal bullying for everything from his nose to how he talks. (Image courtesy screenshot)

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Keaton Jones, viral for being bullied, needs free self-defense classes

Neil Dwyer · December 11, 2017 7:39 pm

Keaton Jones, a middle school student from Union County, Tenn., appeared in a video posted by his mother, Kimberly Jones, on Facebook talking about how he was bullied at school. (Screenshot)

Kellyanne Conway on viral anti-bullying video: We need to ‘lead by example for children’

Melissa Quinn · December 11, 2017 4:18 pm

New York City police said a man with a pipe bomb strapped to his body set off the crude device in a passageway under 42nd Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

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Why is Trump’s first tweet after the New York explosion about unrelated ‘Fake News?’

Siraj Hashmi · December 11, 2017 4:01 pm

President Trump tweeted Monday morning, "Another false story, this time in the Failing @nytimes, that I watch 4-8 hours of television a day - Wrong! Also I seldom, if ever, watch CNN or MSNBC, both of which I consider Fake News. I never watch Don Lemon, who I once called the 'dumbest man on television!' Bad Reporting." (AP Photo/Jonathan Bachman)

Trump: New York Times falsely said I watch 4 to 8 hours of TV a day

Caitlin Yilek · December 11, 2017 2:36 pm

President Donald Trump waves from the top of the steps of Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Fla., Sunday, Dec. 10, 2017. Trump spent the weekend at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., and attended the opening of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Weekend wrap: Trump tweets media critiques and the Alabama Senate race turns toward the homestretch

Kyle Feldscher · December 11, 2017 3:02 am

"Very little discussion of all the purposely false and defamatory stories put out this week by the Fake News Media," Trump tweeted. "They are out of control -- correct reporting means nothing to them. Major lies written, then forced to be withdrawn after they are exposed ... a stain on America!" (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Trump: The ‘Fake News Media’ is a ‘stain on America’

Robert King · December 10, 2017 9:52 pm

"Things are going really well for our economy, a subject the Fake News spends as little time as possible discussing! Stock Market hit another RECORD HIGH, unemployment is now at a 17 year low and companies are coming back into the USA. Really good news, and much more to come!" Trump tweeted. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump touts economy and tax cuts: ‘A subject the Fake News spends as little time as possible discussing!’

Kyle Feldscher · December 10, 2017 1:46 pm

Protesters hold signs that read "No Muslim Ban Ever," outside a federal courthouse. The Supreme Court on Monday lifted the Maryland judge's block of Trump's ban, allowing the administration to fully enforce the restriction against residents from six Muslim-majority countries. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Appeals court focuses on Trump’s Muslim tweets in new arguments over travel ban

Ryan Lovelace · December 8, 2017 6:55 pm

Fifty-one percent of voters, though, said they do not approve of the job the president is doing. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump celebrates his 45 percent approval rating

Melissa Quinn · December 8, 2017 6:47 pm

Former Alabama Chief Justice and U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore said he looks forward to passing the "America First" agenda with President Trump. "You're right Mr. President! We can't Make America Great Again with another radical liberal in the US Senate." (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Roy Moore looking forward to passing the ‘American First Agenda’ with Trump

Katie Leach · December 8, 2017 4:24 pm

Trump had left the door open to a campaign event for Moore last week just before departing Washington for Thanksgiving weekend. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Trump urges Alabamians to support Roy Moore: ‘Pelosi/Schumer Puppet’ Doug Jones would vote against agenda

Melissa Quinn · December 8, 2017 3:26 pm

"Franken is a creep who acted inappropriately, but his facts are different," Fleischer tweeted. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer: Al Franken ‘should not have resigned’

Kara Zupkus · December 7, 2017 8:54 pm