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Game Designer Surprises Wife With Black Game Developer Barbie
What do you do if you want to get Mattel’s Game Developer Barbie for your wife, but the doll is available only as a white doll with red hair? For Marcus Montgomery, the answer was quite simple. As a pro problem-solver, being a game designer himself, he bought a black Barbie and dressed it up…
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Baltimore Rapper Lor Scoota Shot and Killed After Rallying to Stop City Violence
Tyriece Travon Watson, better known as rapper Lor Scoota, was working hard to try to stop violence in his hometown of Baltimore. Tragically, just a short while after leaving a charity basketball game he had hosted to promote such peace, Lor Scoota was shot and killed, the Washington Post reports. According to the report, police…
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Co-Defendant of Aaron Hernandez Takes Plea Deal in 2013 Death of Odin Lloyd
A co-defendant of former NFL player Aaron Hernandez took a plea deal for his part in the 2013 death of Odin Lloyd and was sentenced Monday, CNN reports. Carlos Ortiz, 30, changed his not guilty plea and pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact for helping Hernandez after the fatal 2013 shooting. In…
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Family Outraged After Video, Photos of Chicago Stabbing Victim Posted Online
A grieving Chicago family is outraged after graphic images and video showing their loved one being stabbed to death on a Chicago Red Line train Thursday were posted online, CBS Chicago reports. “My sister was beautiful, gifted young lady. She didn’t deserve to go the way she did,” Lorel Hampton, the victim’s sister, told the…
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Red Cross Apologizes After 'Super Racist' Pool-Safety Poster
The American Red Cross is learning that a little revision goes a long way after a signboard about swim-safety guidelines came under fire for its “racist” message, prompting an apology from the Red Cross, NBC News reports. The backlash started after a photo of a pool-safety poster in Fort Morgan, Colo., started circulating on social…
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Supreme Court Strikes Down Abortion Restrictions in Texas
The Supreme Court of the United States has struck down a restrictive Texas law that required clinics that provide abortions to have surgical facilities and doctors with admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, NPR reports, ruling the restrictions unconstitutional. In a 5-3 decision in the case, Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, the court overturned a decision made…
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Multiple People Stabbed at Neo-Nazi Event Near Calif. State Capitol in Sacramento
At least seven people were stabbed after neo-Nazis and counterdemonstrators clashed at a rally at the state Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Sunday, the Los Angeles Times reports. According to the report, five people, some of whom were critically injured, were taken to local hospitals, the Sacramento Fire Department’s public information officer, Chris Harvey, told the Times.…
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Chicago Woman Stabbed to Death on CTA Red Line
Police have taken into custody a person of interest after the fatal stabbing of a woman on a Chicago Transit Authority Red Line train on the South Side, WLS reports. The still-unidentified woman was stabbed in the neck around 12:30 p.m. Thursday and was pronounced dead at the scene. Passengers who witnessed the gruesome attack…
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Grand Jury Declines to Indict Texas Cop Who Slammed Teen Girl to Ground at Pool Party
A Texas grand jury declined to indict a McKinney, Texas, police officer who was seen on video slamming a teenage girl to the ground outside a pool party last year, WFAA reports. Now-former Police Cpl. Eric Casebolt was thrust into the spotlight in June 2015 after seven minutes of video showed the officer aggressively tossing…
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Supreme Court Deadlocks on Obama Immigration Plan
The Supreme Court was split down the middle in its decision on President Barack Obama’s immigration program. The deadlock deals a hard blow to what the president had hoped would become a part of his legacy, and leaves millions of undocumented immigrants unprotected, the New York Times reports. The 4-4 deadlock leaves in place the…
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