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6th State Executive Charged With Manslaughter in Flint, Mich., Water Crisis
A special prosecutor brought involuntary manslaughter charges against Michigan’s chief medical executive in relation to the Flint, Mich., water crisis on Monday. State’s Attorney General Todd Flood announced the manslaughter charge against Dr. Eden Wells before her hearing on other charges tied to Flint, including obstruction of justice. The Associated Press reports that Flood said…
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Head of DEA Stepping Down Because of Trump: Report
And another prominent person in the Trump regime bites the dust. This time, the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration will step down by week’s end because he is “convinced that President Trump has no respect for the law,” according to a report from the New York Times. Chuck Rosenberg will step down as acting…
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Parents of Teen Accused of Nearly Hanging 8-Year-Old Say It Was an ‘Accident’ (and They Have Black Family, Too)
In what may be a classic case of CYCA (insert “child’s” into usual abbreviation), the parents of the young teen involved in what many call an attempted lynching in Claremont, N.H., have spoken out, saying that their son is innocent of racially taunting and trying to hang an 8-year-old boy from a tree. Going on…
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Marshawn Lynch Sits During National Anthem at Raiders Preseason Game
Marshawn Lynch has always been a man who marched to his own drum. Frankly, I think he’s a genius who’s laughing at all of us; for me, that was confirmed when he was one of very few high-profile NFL players who came out in support of Colin Kaepernick’s principled stand for black lives last year.…
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Venus and Serena 2.0? Compton, Calif., Sisters Set to Take Over Golf
Not only has Compton, Calif., produced Dre, Kendrick, Issa, Venus and Serena, but soon there may be two more luminaries to hail from its notorious, talent-producing streets. The Phillips sisters from Compton are already being compared to the Williams sisters in that they are prodigies in a white-dominated sport. ABC 7 reports that last week,…
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Steph Curry Scores Richest Deal in NBA History With $200,000,000 Contract
He might not be Michael Jordan, or even LeBron James, but Steph Curry has just agreed to what amounts to the richest deal in NBA history. The five-year deal with the Golden State Warriors is worth $201 million with no options, as confirmed by Curry’s agent Jeff Austin of Octagon. USA Today reports that Curry…
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LaVar Ball—His Team and His Mouth—Shut Down by Compton, 109-57
Known loudmouth LaVar Ball got his comeuppance from the city of Compton, Calif., on Saturday—and NBA star James Harden was there to see the whole thing. Ball’s AAU basketball team—the Big Ballers, which his oldest son, LaMelo, plays for—got crushed 109-57 by the Compton Magic at the Magic Memorial Day Festival in Southern California, according…
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Trump Totally Disrespected Angela Merkel. WTF?
There have been rumors—OK, there was a tape—that our current president has a problem with women. He continually disrespected them during his campaign—calling them slobs, disgusting, blood coming out of their wherever—but his (complicit) daughter Ivanka Trump’s presence sought to absolve him of that. And apparently many women fell for it. In fact, 48 percent…
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Kamiyah Mobley Reunites With Birth Parents, Says She Still Loves the Woman Who Kidnapped Her
A young woman kidnapped in 1998 from a Florida hospital was reunited with her biological parents Saturday in South Carolina. Kamiyah Mobley, 18, spent 45 minutes with her birth parents, Craig Aiken and Shanara Mobley, at the Walterboro Police Department, where the woman who kidnapped her is being held. “I told her I was glad…