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Female West Point Cadets Who Raised Fists in Photo Won’t Be Punished
The U.S. Military Academy at West Point has announced that the female cadets who were photographed with their fists raised will not face any punishment for their actions despite cries from those who believed the move showed solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. “Based upon available evidence, none of the participants, through their actions,…
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Ga. Police Looking for 5 People Who Got Into an All-Out Brawl Inside Restaurant on Mother’s Day
Police are looking for four men and one woman in Atlanta believed to have caused a full-on brawl inside a Japanese restaurant on Mother’s Day. “This is the best Mother’s Day ever. Very entertaining. [We got] good food and good entertainment,” 14-year-old Sailyn Barlow, who was inside the Kiku Japanese restaurant when the brawl took…
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Report: Ray Lewis and Cris Carter Out at ESPN, Network Hires Randy Moss
If the rumors are true, ESPN is getting rid of two Hall of Fame football commentators in Ray Lewis and Cris Carter and adding Carter’s onetime teammate Randy Moss. According to the Big Lead, the network, which is already losing host Skip Bayless to Fox and Monday Night Football announcer Mike Tirico to NBC, is…
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Ferguson, Mo.’s New Police Chief Was Ready to Retire; Then Ferguson Exploded and He Knew the City Needed Him
Ferguson, Mo., swore in its first African-American police chief Monday, and although the new chief had been ready for retirement, after seeing the unrest caused in the wake of Michael Brown’s death, he said that he felt a calling to take this job and help restore order. “My plan was to retire in September and…
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Family Members of SC Church Massacre Victims Upset With Donation Payout
The families of the nine people killed in the mass shooting inside a Charleston, S.C., church last year aren’t pleased with the distribution of donations the church has received since the June 17 shooting. The wife of the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, the South Carolina state senator and Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church pastor who was…
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Cold War: Russian Company Makes ‘Little Obama’ Chocolate-Flavored Ice Cream Bars
A Russian ice cream company has started selling frozen chocolate ice cream bars called Obamka, or “Little Obama.” The outside packaging shows a little brown-skinned boy wearing a yellow shirt and a hoop earring and holding an ice cream, the Moscow Times reports. Despite obvious tension between President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin,…
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Muslim Calif. High School Student Misidentified as ‘Isis Phillips’ in Yearbook
Bayan Zehlif is a Muslim high school student at Los Osos High School in California, and like most high school students, she was excited to get her yearbook. When she turned to the page that held her photo, she was shocked to see that she had been identified as “Isis Phillips.” “I am extremely saddened,…
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UAB Football Player Declared Brain-Dead After Being Shot
University of Alabama at Birmingham running back Gregory Bryant, found shot in South Florida, has been declared brain-dead, police say. According to the Associated Press, Bryant, 21, was driving on Interstate 95 when he was shot. He was found around 4:45 a.m. Saturday. Passenger Maurice Grover, 25, was hospitalized with minor injuries. West Palm Beach,…
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The Wire: The Ultimate ‘Where Are They Now?’
In June 2002, when HBO debuted The Wire, no one knew what was happening. No one knew that the show was a five-part story about not only the people but also the city of Baltimore, told through all of the channels that help make its history: season 1, the drug game and the police force;…
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