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8-Year-Old Florida Boy Donates Bone Marrow and Saves His Brother and Sister From Sickle Cell Disease
And now for some heartwarming news out of Florida, the hashtag that is a state. An 8-year-old boy is being credited with saving his brother and sister from life-threatening sickle cell disease. When 22-year-old Kingsley Aihe and 13-year-old Vanessa Aihe needed a bone marrow transplant to treat their sickle cell, doctors were amazed to learn…
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Daddy's 'Baby': Donald Trump Considered Naming Daughter Ivanka to Lead World Bank
We know Donald Trump really, really, really loves his only eldest daughter, Ivanka Trump. (Remember that creepy comment the proud papa made about a then-teenage Ivanka: “Don’t you think my daughter’s hot? She’s hot, right?”) But, now, come to find out he actually considered appointing her to head the World Bank. The World Bank, y’all.…
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Dallas Police Chief Defends Decision to Charge Black Woman Seen on Video Being Brutally Beaten in Assault
Say what, now? Dallas Police Chief Renee Hall says her heart goes out to L’Daijonique Lee, the black woman brutally beaten in a racially motivated attack last month, but that it was the right call for police to charge Lee with a felony for breaking a window on her alleged attacker’s truck. “In law enforcement…
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Mystery Surrounds Deaths of Couple Who Went Missing in Dominican Republican
The deaths of a suburban New York couple who went missing while vacationing in the Dominican Republic before authorities realized they had been killed in a car wreck have two U.S. congressman calling for an FBI investigation. Orlando Moore and Portia Ravenelle, of Mount Vernon, N.Y., went missing March 27 when they didn’t show up…
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Nipsey Hussle Celebrated as a Visionary Activist at Public Memorial in Los Angeles
Tens of thousands of people packed Los Angeles’ 21,000-capacity Staples Center Thursday while many others stood outside and gathered throughout the city as fans, friends and family bid farewell to Nipsey Hussle at a public memorial. Billed as a “Celebration of Life,” the memorial brought people together from throughout Los Angeles and beyond. Scripture was…
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Not a Good Look: UK Grocer Pulls 'Ugly'-Named Chocolate Duckies After Complaints of Racism
There’s the old adage that good things come in threes: Huey, Dewey and Louie. Snap, Crackle and Pop. Or perhaps the Holy Trinity itself: Destiny’s Child. But for a U.K. grocery chain selling a trio of chocolate ducks just in time for Easter, what came in threes was the latest trite display of what is…
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Warner Bros. Shuts Down Trump 2020 Video for Using Dark Knight Rises
Not so fast, Donald Trump! That was basically Warner Bros.’ stance after Trump and his team apparently took it upon themselves to use music from The Dark Knight Rises to accompany a video promoting Trump’s 2020 re-election hopes. On Tuesday, Trump tweeted out the video, which featured an odd collection of imagery—among them, Washington landmarks,…
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Women Could Face Death Penalty for Having an Abortion Under Proposed Texas Law
Texas lawmakers held a hearing this week on a bill that could subject women to the death penalty if they had an abortion. Period, point blank, no exceptions. The legislator behind the bill is Texas state Rep. Tony Tinderholt, a five-times-married Republican out of Arlington who had to be placed under police protection when he…
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Trump to Screen Controversial Anti-Abortion Film at White House
In a decision sure to further shore up support among his pro-life base, Donald Trump is set to screen the controversial anti-abortion film Gosnell at the White House Friday. The crowdfunded film that chronicles the trial and conviction of Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell will be shown by invitation to a group of pro-life activists…
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Watch: Man Turns NYC Subway Car Into an Urban Jungle; Strange but True
Now, this isn’t something one sees everyday—not even in New York City’s subway system, known for being the scene of every kind of oddity from pizza-lugging rats to impromptu performances by subway pole dancers. But a subway rider Sunday took things to a new level when he decided to turn a subway car into a…
