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NYC Mayor’s SUV Videotaped Breaking Traffic Laws
Days after New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio presented a sweeping traffic-safety plan that included harsh restrictions on reckless drivers, his official vehicles were recorded breaking several traffic laws on Thursday, the Associated Press reports. The SUV with de Blasio in the front passenger seat was captured on video, speeding, running through stop signs…
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Police Have Video of Baltimore Ravens Ray Rice Knocking Girlfriend Unconscious
A police complaint seen by the Associated Press alleges that Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice knocked his fiancee unconscious during an argument at an Atlantic City casino, and there is video to prove it. According to Sports Illustrated.com, police have video evidence that shows Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice knocking his fiancee unconscious.…
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Lamar Odom Is Taking His Talents to Spain
Former NBA star and ex-reality-TV husband Lamar Odom, 34, has agreed to a short-term deal with Spanish basketball club Baskonia, the Associated Press reports. Odom, a two-time NBA champion with the Lakers who has also played for the Dallas Mavericks, the Miami Heat and most recently the Los Angeles Clippers, hasn’t played since the end…
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Clinton Foundation Awards Grant to Fund Recycling Plant in Haiti
Former President Bill Clinton announced Tuesday that the Clinton Foundation has awarded a $250,000 grant to a Haitian recycling plant that seeks to clean up Port-au-Prince and neighboring districts, while unclogging the many canals that are filled with discarded plastic bottles and other bits of trash, the Associated Press reports. The grant was awarded to…
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Denzel Washington Is Ready to Take the Stage
Now that the kids have flown the nest, Denzel Washington wants to get back to his stage roots. The Associated Press notes that the Tony- and Oscar-winning actor, who is set to portray Walter Lee Younger in Lorraine Hansberry’s classic play A Raisin in the Sun, can now handle the hectic Broadway schedule. “Up until…
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Juror Says Dunn Would Have Killed a White Teen
In the first interview with a jury member since the controversial verdict was handed down in the trial of Michael Dunn, who shot and killed 17-year-old unarmed Jordan Davis, one juror spoke with Byron Pitts of ABC News. She says that the jury vote was deadlocked 9-3 to convict Dunn of first-degree murder. Pitts, who…
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Melissa Harris-Perry Welcomes a Baby Girl
On Valentine’s Day, Melissa Harris-Perry took to Twitter to tell her followers that she is a new mother. She posted pictures of her new daughter wearing a onesie that reads, “daddy and mommy’s little valentine.” On Tuesday, the MSNBC host revealed the struggles she endured and how she and her husband ultimately chose surrogacy. “Many…
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The Root’s Response to the Worst Letter We’ve Ever Gotten
On Saturday evening the Michael Dunn verdict came in, and I was thrown. Not because he wouldn’t be serving time, as the jury found him guilty for shooting at the three boys he didn’t kill, but because I, like many people around the nation, felt like another grown white man had gotten away with killing…
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Tom Ford Pays Tribute to Jay Z at London’s Fashion Week
Turns out that Tom Ford also rocks Tom Ford. The high-end fashion retailer included two sequined football-jersey-style dresses with “TOM FORD” emblazoned across the back in his runway show at London’s Fashion Week on Monday. In between his luxurious fur coats and cashmere dresses, the designer sent down two versions of the dress, which had…
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Fox News Anchor Calls Don Lemon ‘the Al Sharpton of CNN’
Fox News anchor Gregg Jarrett doubled down on his attacks on CNN’s Don Lemon. On Sunday the two had a war of tweets over Lemon’s live, impassioned delivery of the news after receiving the verdict in the Michael Dunn “loud music” murder trial. Jarrett called Lemon a “pompous, pretentious jerk,” to which Lemon replied, “mind…