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19 Dead in Nigerian Building Collapse
A three-story building collapsed in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, on Wednesday. Nineteen people were killed and 12 people were rescued. The building collapsed around 5 a.m. (12 a.m. ET) in the Garki area of Abuja, said deputy police spokesman Yemi Ajayi. The cause of the collapse is under investigation. Read more at CNN. —Nsenga K. Burton
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Mitrice Richardson's Remains Found
Update at 11:53 pm ET, August 12: Sadly, skeletal remains found in a ravine in the Malibu, Calif., area have been identified as those of Mitrice Richardson. According to NBC Los Angeles, her father, Michael Richardson, said, “This book is not closed. More chapters need to be written. We are going to hold people accountable.…
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Swizz Beatz Has Serious Financial Woes
Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean is in some serious financial trouble. It seems that the man who just wed R&B’s most eligible bachelorette, Alicia Keys, has 35 different tax liens. It had been reported that Dean owed more than $2.4 million in taxes, but news of the tax liens recently surfaced. We won’t mention child support…
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Judge Presses Pause on Gay Marriages in California
Pump your brakes — gay marriages can’t actually take place for a few more days. A federal judge on Thursday put gay marriages on hold for at least another six days in California but kept hopes high among same-sex couples that they soon will be able to tie the knot after years of delays. Judge Vaughn…
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Iranian Woman Confesses on TV to Avoid Stoning Death
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the 43-year-old Iranian woman facing execution by stoning for adultery, confessed on state TV to infidelity and helping her supposed lover kill her husband. In an interview broadcast today, Ashtiani also skewered her lawyer for publicizing the case and bringing shame on her family. Ashtiani’s lawyer, who was granted refuge in Norway, told…
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Teen Jobless Rate Hits 26 Percent
What has the world come to when a teenager can’t find a summer job? 2010 is looking like 1940, because the jobless rate for teenagers hasn’t been this bleak since then. The teen jobless rate is at 26 percent, which has made for a lean summer. July is typically the height of the employment season…
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Eat Pray Love: A Woman's Road Movie
At heart, Eat Pray Love, based on the outrageously successful, Oprah-anointed best-seller, is a travelogue, an inner road movie where the heroine travels from point A (depressed, self-absorbed, unlucky in love) to point B (happy, semi-self-absorbed, lucky in love). And as such, it’s hard to turn that into compelling filmmaking. (Except, perhaps, for the lucky-in-love…
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African-American Couples Are More Likely to Share Religious Beliefs
Finally, some good news about African-American relationships. Black couples are more likely than others to share core religious beliefs. Thus they are more likely to pray together, which is a factor that has been linked to greater happiness in marriages and relationships, according to a recent study released by the Journal of Marriage and Family. The…
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A 'Person of Interest' Arrested in Flint Stabbing Spree
A “person of interest” linked to the three-state knife attacks that killed five people in Michigan has been taken into custody, authorities said today. Media reports said he was arrested at Atlanta’s airport as he tried to fly to Israel. He is currently being held on unrelated charges. Unrelated? Authorities aren’t using the “charge first…
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