The terrorist group Boko Haram reportedly abducted the wife of Cameroon’s vice prime minister in an attack Sunday that left at least three people dead in the town of Kolofata, Reuters reports. In addition, Kolofata’s mayor, Seini Boukar Lamine—who is also the lamido, or local religious leader—was kidnapped, along with five members of his family,…

Americans are going to start noticing something different about the public space in August, and their daily commute will get a lot more artistic and interesting. That’s when “the largest outdoor art show ever,” “Art Everywhere U.S.,” is set to launch—displaying 58 pieces of American art across billboards and on buses, as well as in airports,…

One Republican campaign consultant is out of a job after making some “defamatory comments” about her employer’s primary opponent. According to the Hartford Courant, Connecticut state Rep. Penny Bacchiochi, who is gearing up to run for lieutenant governor, fired consultant Regina V. Ross Roundtree after Roundtree, who is black, wrote a controversial Facebook post about…

Theodore Wafer, the Detroit man charged in the killing of Renisha McBride, told investigators right after the shooting that he did not realize his shotgun was armed, the Associated Press reports. On the second day of the controversial trial, the courtroom heard a recording of the conversation between Wafer and police after they responded to…

Chicago police have formally arrested and charged an 18-year-old man in connection with the death of Shamiya Adams, the 11-year-old who was killed by a stray bullet while she was playing at a slumber party, New York’s Daily News reports. The suspect, Tevin Lee, reportedly was looking for revenge in some sort of dispute involving…

Soon, the Alexander Memorial Baptist Church, a historic, century-old black church in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington D.C., will be no more, according to WJLA. The church is being sold for $6.5 million to a developer, with plans to turn it into either condominiums or townhouses, according to the news station. The reason for the…

Detroit has found interesting allies in Canada as the bankrupt city’s residents face water shutoffs due to unpaid bills in a crackdown by the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department. According to the Detroit Free Press, a Canadian group will be trying to send a convoy of some eight cars adorned patriotically with Canadian flags through…

As the highly controversial Renisha McBride shooting trial began in Detroit Wednesday, jurors heard two different versions of what happened that night from the lawyers on opposing sides in their opening statements, the Detroit Free Press reports. Lawyers for Theodore Wafer—the 55-year-old Dearborn Heights, Mich., resident charged in the shooting death of the young, unarmed…

He was hailed as a national hero in his home country of Sierra Leone for his work treating patients of the deadly Ebola virus. However, now, the New York Post reports, virologist Sheik Umar Khan has become a victim of the very disease he was trying to battle, the latest casualty in the epidemic that…

Forget the traditional newborn cries that come out of the maternity ward; when a baby is born at Magee-Womens Hospital in Pittsburgh, you’re more likely to hear the soothing tones of someone singing. This is how Dr. Carey Andrew-Jaja welcomes his littlest patients into the world, singing from a repertoire that ranges from their very…