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Latino Leader Calls Obama ‘Deporter in Chief’
A Latino activist called President Barack Obama the “deporter in chief,” denouncing the administration’s deportation of nearly 2 million immigrants, the Associated Press reports. Janet Murguia, who heads the National Council of La Raza, didn’t just direct her anger over the deportations at the president. She also voiced her displeasure with House Republicans for stalling…
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‘Spoiled’ Teen Denied $650 a Week in Child Support
A New Jersey teen who took her parents to court seeking child support after being tossed out of their Lincoln Park home has been shut down after a judge ruled against her, saying the high school cheerleader was “spoiled,” the New York Daily News reports. On Tuesday, Morristown Superior Court Judge Peter Bogaard ruled against…
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Former World Champion Boxer Arrested in Florida
Former world champion boxer Antonio Tarver was arrested in Florida earlier this week on a felony theft and bad check warrant stemming from unpaid IOUs at a Las Vegas Strip casino, the Associated Press reports. The Florida Highway Patrol arrested Tarver after a traffic stop led to the discovery of a warrant, which had been…
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Tenn. News Anchor Removes Wig on Air After Bout With Breast Cancer
A brave Tennessee news anchor who has been fighting cancer declared, after running a preproduced segment about women and their “crowns of glory”—in which she discusses how recent chemotherapy treatments caused her to go bald—that she’d had enough. “I’m going natural. No more relaxers to straighten my hair,” she told viewers. When the cameras cut…
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The Beef Between 12 Years Writer and Director
A bitter feud brewing between 12 Years a Slave director Steve McQueen and writer John Ridley came to a frosty head during the Oscars Sunday. Ridley won for best adapted screenplay, and in accepting his award, he bypassed the director to hug director David O. Russell. Ridley did not mention McQueen in his acceptance speech,…
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NJ Supreme Court to Review Rap Lyrics in Shooting
A New Jersey man on trial for attempted murder will wait for the state Supreme Court to decide whether the words he rapped should have been admitted at trial. Vonte Skinner, who rapped that he would “blow your face off and leave your brain caved in the street,” is having his case watched closely by…
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Will and Jaden Smith Win Worst Actor Awards for After Earth
While celebrities were gliding the red carpet and scooping up Oscars Sunday, Will and Jaden Smith received honors they probably could’ve done without: They were both given Razzies for their roles in After Earth, the Associated Press reports. Golden Raspberry Awards are given each year to movies that suck and to actors whose performances also…
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Michael Jackson’s Estate Now Flush With Cash
When Michael Jackson died almost five years ago, his finances were a disaster. Comedians joked that the llamas on his Neverland ranch were going to be sold as tall pit-bulls in Los Angeles just to recoup money owed to collectors. Now the executors are claiming that the estate is not only out of the black…
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Wage Fight Pushes 22-Year-Old KFC Worker Into National Spotlight
Naquasia LeGrand was tired. She had been working at two KFC restaurants, 15 hours at the first and then hiking it across to work whatever hours she could get at the the other store. Some nights after a full day of frying chicken, sweeping floors and serving customers, she would close the store at 1…
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World Bank Postpones Loan to Uganda Over Anti-Gay Law
The World Bank has delayed a $90 million loan to Uganda over its approval of an anti-gay law that has drawn widespread criticism from the US, the United Nations and rights groups, the Associated Press reports. A World Bank spokesman told AP that the loan was intended to help the East African nation’s health systems.…
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