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[Content note: Guns, gun violence, rape culture, homophobia]

Wednesday News:

The man who sheltered six kids during the Sandy Hook massacre has become the target of conspiracy theorists.

A helicopter crashed into a construction crane in thick London fog Today, killing the pilot and another person.

A 23-year-old Southern California man has been charged with a felony hate crime after tagging buildings and a tree on the UC Berkeley Campus with anti-gay graffiti.

New York's Biagio Cru & Estate Wines has released Égalité, a sparkling wine from the Burgundy region of France which is meant as "a celebration of equality" for the LGBT community.

Fifty suspects where arrested yesterday, ranging in ages from 19 to 60, some teachers, in a child sex abuse sting.

Conrad Bain, who starred as the kindly white adoptive father of two young African-American brothers in the TV sitcom Diff'rent Strokes, has died.

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