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Don Lemon Won’t Rule Out the Supernatural in Malaysia Airliner Mystery
While governments, inspectors and even President Obama are ramping up efforts to find out exactly what happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, CNN host Don Lemon isn’t ready to take supernatural and biblical theories off the table. On Sunday, Lemon said: “Especially today, on a day when we deal with the supernatural, we go to…
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Judge Upholds Firing of Police Officer Who Shared Rihanna Injury Photos
A judge has upheld the firing of a police officer who distributed an evidence photo showing injuries singer Rihanna sustained after she was attacked by then boyfriend Chris Brown. The photo found its way onto the celebrity website TMZ, the Associated Press reports. Former Los Angeles police officer Rebecca Reyes took a picture of an…
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It’s Official: Aaron McGruder Out at Boondocks
Aaron McGruder, creator and executive producer of The Boondocks, has had no involvement with the upcoming fourth season of the cartoon, Adult Swim confirms, fueling suspicions that began on Facebook, where McGruder claimed The Boondocks page had been “hijacked.” According to a press release issued by Adult Swim, “this season was produced without the involvement of…
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Singer Anita Baker Wanted in Detroit for Missing Court Appearance
An arrest warrant has been issued for singer Anita Baker, TMZ reports. According to the gossip website, the “Sweet Love” singer is wanted in Detroit on a bench warrant issued Thursday when she failed to appear in court for a hearing in a legal dispute with a painting and decorating company. Ray A. Smith Painting…
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Police Searching for 8-Year-Old DC-Area Girl Find Woman’s Body
Police searching for a missing 8-year-old girl found the body of a woman who appears to have been beaten to death, NBC Washington reports. Prince George’s County police discovered the woman’s body at a Red Roof Inn in the Washington suburb of Oxon Hill, Md., while trying to find Relisha Tenau Rudd. Relisha was last…
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‘They Never Said They Were Cops’
Former high school student Jordan Miles testified Thursday against three police Pittsburgh police officers he says assaulted and arrested him one night in 2010 as he was walking to his grandmother’s house. In a federal civil rights lawsuit, Miles, who is black, alleges that the officers, who are white, wrongfully arrested him and used excessive…
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Have Uncle Ruckus and The Boondocks Been Hijacked?
In November 2005 the Cartoon Network debuted The Boondocks during its late-night Adult Swim programming and gave us a glimpse into the fictitious Freeman family, who had just moved from the South Side of Chicago to the mostly white, made-up suburb of Woodcrest. In the premiere, viewers heard 10-year-old Huey Freeman proclaim that “Jesus was…
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Elton John Wants to Make Hip-Hop
In 2007 Kanye West sampled Elton John’s Someone Saved My Life Tonight on his hit single Good Morning. Three years later, West invited John to his Hawaii studio to play piano for All of the Lights on his critically praised album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. So don’t be shocked if you hear that West…
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Oprah Spills the Tea on Move With Starbucks
It seems fitting that the woman once known for spilling the tea is now selling it, as Oprah Winfrey announced Wednesday at the Starbucks annual shareholders meeting that she and the coffee company have teamed up to create Oprah Chai. The celebrity talk show host announced that the drink would be sold at Starbucks cafés…
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President Obama Awards Medal of Honor to 24 Overlooked Minority Veterans
On Tuesday, President Obama awarded 24 minority U.S. soldiers, who collectively served in three of the nation’s wars and were never rewarded for their courage, with the Medal of Honor, reports the Associated Press. Only three of the 24 were alive for President Barack Obama to drape the medals and ribbons around their necks; the…