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1st Child With Double Hand Transplant Is Making Amazing Progress
Zion Harvey, 9, received a double hand transplant one year ago at Penn Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and he couldn’t be improving any better, according to CBS News. Last year Zion had a transplant of both his hands and forearms in the first operation of its kind to have been performed on a…
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Man Sentenced to 14 Years for Giving Butt Injections to Woman Who Later Died
Vinnie Lysander Taylor, 44, was sentenced by a federal judge to 14 years in prison for illegally giving a woman silicone butt injections days before her death, according to the Washington Post. Taylor would travel around the country injecting women with silicone to give them larger buttocks. This particular woman in Maryland died a few…
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Man Dead After Date With Woman He Met Online
A Florida man was found dead in his home after reportedly going on a date with a woman he met online. Adam Hilarie, 27, met Hailey Rose Bustos, 18, for an arranged date after they met on an online dating site, according to WSB-TV Atlanta. After their date, he apparently dropped her off. Then she…
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$17,500,000 Reasons The Birth of a Nation Is Coming to a Theater Near You, No Matter What Anyone Says
In less than two weeks, actor-turned-director Nate Parker has gone from being praised by many to being vilified by others over his reported past actions 17 years ago. As the producer, director, co-writer and lead actor of his directorial debut, The Birth of a Nation, he is the face of the film, while slave rebellion…
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Tenn. Father Accused of Killing 11-Year-Old Daughter Fails Drug Test
Timothy Batts, the man accused of killing his 11-year-old daughter, Timea Lashay Batts, has reportedly failed his drug screening after bonding out of jail, according to CBS News. Sumner Country, Tenn., District Attorney Ray Whitley broke the news to several news outlets and also mentioned that he has filed a motion to revoke Batts’ bond. Batts, who…
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Broadway Dancer Admits to Killing Boyfriend Via Facebook Post
Marcus Bellamy, a 32-year-old dancer on the Broadway stage, allegedly murdered his boyfriend, Bernardo Almonte, in their walkup in the Bronx borough of New York City and then took to Facebook to confess, according to the New York Daily News. “Forgive me,” he wrote Friday after reportedly beating and strangling Almonte. “I did it for love.…
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Black Women Were Too Lazy to Find Work and 4 Other Myths of Welfare Reform
Welfare reform is 20 years old. On Aug. 22, 1996, President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, “ending welfare as we know it.” Strategically placed next to him for the photo was Lillie Harden, an African-American mother from Little Rock, Ark., who had spent two years on welfare but now had…
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Donald Trump Spends All of a Minute ‘Helping’ La. Flood Victims
Duh! Or should we say Play-Doh!? Republican candidate Donald Trump may be making just that sound as he receives yet more criticism for his actions, even after shaking up his team of advisers. On Friday morning, the GOP presidential hopeful told ABC News that he and running mate Mike Pence would be hitting the road to Baton…
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At Last: Frank Ocean Releases Long-Awaited Album, Blonde
After fits and starts, rumors and innuendo, Frank Ocean finally released his sophomore album Saturday night. Five years after Channel Orange, Blonde was released via Apple Music and through pop-up shops in New York, London, Los Angeles and Chicago. The album is called Blonde on Apple Music but titled Blond on the physical album. There…
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U.S. Justice Department Says Poor Defendants Can’t Be Held If They Can’t Afford Bail
The U.S. Justice Department said that holding defendants in jail because they can’t afford to make bail is unconstitutional—the first time the government has taken such a position before a federal appeals court, reports NBC News. On Thursday, Loretta Lynch’s DOJ filed a friend of court (amicus) brief in federal court saying that mandating inmates pay…
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