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A Mother’s Fight for a Christmas Miracle for Her Brain-Dead Teen
Nailah Winkfield is a mother first. As a mother, she is fighting for her daughter’s life, which doctors believe ended once she was declared brain-dead after tonsil surgery this month. Winkfield isn’t sure what the new court-appointed doctor will determine about her 13-year-old, Jahi McMath, but as her mother she plans to keep fighting. “I’m…
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Obama Enrolls in Obamacare
The president now has health care coverage—times two. In a move that the White House is calling a symbolic show of President Obama’s support for the newly enacted health care system, the president’s aides enrolled him using healthcare.gov, even though the president’s medical needs are met through the military, the Associated Press reports. Obama signed…
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Cory Booker Challenges Rand Paul to ‘Feats of Strength’
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) were supposed to have a Festivus “feats of strength” battle on the Senate floor, but Paul decided against it, leaving the two wildly popular men of their respective parties to hashtag it out over Twitter. Paul started it when he jokingly tweeted that he would…
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25-Year-Old DJ to Become 1st Black South African in Space
Mandla Maseko was born and raised in a dusty township in South Africa and never dreamed his life would be as big as it has become. “I’m not trying to make this a race thing but us blacks grew up dreaming to a certain stage. You dreamed of being a policeman or a lawyer but…
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Steve Martin Apologizes for Racist Tweet
Steve Martin has apologized for a tweet he sent out. After one of his 4.5 million followers asked him, “Is this how you spell lasonia?” The actor tweeted back, “It depends. Are you in an African-American neighborhood or at an Italian restaurant?” He removed the tweet—apparently an attempt at a lasagna joke—shortly after it appeared,…
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Cleveland Hero Gets Book Deal
Charles Ramsey, the hero who became a reluctant celebrity after busting open a door that freed several woman from a Cleveland house where they had been imprisoned, is writing a book about the ordeal. The Cleveland native has signed a contract with publisher Gray & Co. for a memoir of his life before, during and…
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Democratic Rep. Calls Arizona a ‘Desert Racist Wasteland’
After Sunday’s Seattle Seahawks loss to the Arizona Cardinals, Joe Fitzgibbon, a Democratic state representative whose district includes Seattle, took to Twitter to express his upset. “Losing a football game sucks. Losing to a desert racist wasteland sucks a lot.” Yahoo Sports reports that he quickly deleted the tweet, but not before the Washington…
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President Obama Puts South Sudan on Notice
Though the president is on his annual vacation in Hawaii, he told Congress that he is closely monitoring the unrest in South Sudan, the Los Angeles Times reports. On Saturday, four U.S. service members were wounded after an aircraft attempting to evacuate the Americans was attacked in Bor, the capital of Jonglei State in the…
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Phil Robertson Isn’t Ducking Controversy
Phil Robertson, the patriarch of the Duck Dynasty clan, isn’t backing down from his racially charged and homophobic comments that appeared in GQ last week. According to an exclusive in the Daily Mail, Robertson led a Bible study group in his hometown of West Monroe, La., and told attendees: “I will not give or back…
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PR Exec Tweets, ‘Going to Africa. Hope I Don’t Get AIDS. Just Kidding. I’m White!’
Updated: Saturday, Dec. 21, 8:10 a.m. ET: Justine Sacco’s Twitter account has been deleted. It is speculated that the account was closed after her landing on the African continent. In addition, according to Deadline.com, IAC, where she worked as director of Corporate Communications, has removed her profile from its site. Updated: Friday, Dec. 20, 4:47…
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