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Fox News Anchor: Santa Is White and Jesus Was, Too
Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly isn’t comfortable with the idea of a black Santa and wants to make a few things clear, especially to kids: Santa Claus is white and so was Jesus. The anchor, who had an all-white lineup on her news analysis show, cleared up any misgivings that culture blogger Aisha Harris may…
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Interpreter Claims Schizophrenic Episode at Mandela Memorial
The man who has been at the center of the controversy over “fake sign language” during Mandela’s memorial service says that he had a schizophrenic episode during the program, and that he lost concentration and started hearing voices and hallucinating, IOL News reports. Thamsanqa Jantjie says that he struggles with mental illness and that he…
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Zimmerman Avoids Charges
George Zimmerman will walk again, since his girlfriend decided she will not pursue domestic violence charges, Associated Press reports via Yahoo!. The 30-year-old was facing aggravated assault, battery and criminal mischief charges stemming from a dispute at the central Florida home that he and Samantha Scheibe shared, AP reports. If convicted of the assault charge,…
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Tutu’s Home Robbed While He Mourned Mandela
Looks like not everyone in South Africa was feeling the loving spirit of Nelson Mandela’s memorial. Police say that burglars robbed the home of retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu the same day that he spoke at the service, the Associated Press reports. Robbers broke into Tutu’s Cape Town home Tuesday night while the 82-year-old was attending…
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Man Set Free After 30 Years in Prison
A man who spent 30 years behind bars walked out of prison a free man and into the arms of his two daughters, lawyers and friends earlier today, the Associated Press reports. Fifty-nine-year-old Stanley Wrice has maintained his innocence since he was arrested in 1982. Wrice was accused of rape, yet he claimed he had…
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Photographer: Obama Selfie Not What It Seems
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but in the case of the “selfie seen round the world”—which showed President Obama taking a cellphone photo with British Prime Minister David Cameron and Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning Schmidt, while the first lady looks away in apparent disgust— it wasn’t so. “Photos can lie,” wrote…
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Senate Confirms Rep. Mel Watt to Head FHFA
Rep. Mel Watt (D-N.C.) has finally been confirmed to lead the Federal Housing Finance Agency after months of filibustering by Republicans, who claimed that the North Carolina Democrat didn’t have enough experience. Democrats argued that Republicans were using the stall tactic to undermine the president, who nominated Watt some seven months ago to head the…
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McCain Likens Obama-Castro Handshake to Hitler Moment
“Handshake-gate” took an even stranger twist as John McCain compared President Obama’s two–second handshake with Cuban dictator Raúl Castro to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s handshake with Adolf Hilter at the start of World War II, the Washington Post reports. “It gives Raúl some propaganda to continue to prop up his dictatorial brutal regime, that’s…
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World Leaders Join South Africa to Say Goodbye to Nelson Mandela
Updated: Tuesday, Dec. 10, 7:20 a.m. ET: While it’s likely that much will be made of the president’s handshake with Cuban President Raul Castro, Fidel’s brother, during the memorial to late South African President Nelson Mandela, it is best to put the exchange into context. Obama was greeting all of the speakers who were seated…
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‘Bill of Rights’ to Fight ‘Shopping While Black’ Outrages
On Monday, retail executives and civil rights leaders met to hash out a shopper’s “bill of rights,” New York’s Daily News reports. The list of rules—created after a rash of racial-profiling incidents in which black shoppers claimed that they were arrested, accosted or both after making purchases at Barneys New York and Macy’s—was created to…
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