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  • Ronald Gasser, Man Arrested in Death of Joe McKnight, Released From Custody

    Ronald Gasser, the man authorities say shot and killed former NFL player Joe McKnight outside New Orleans, was released from custody overnight without being charged, according to the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office, NOLA.com reports. McKnight was shot and killed Thursday at the intersection of Behrman Highway and Holmes Boulevard in the New Orleans suburb of Terrytown,…

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  • #ThanksObama: Unemployment Rate Falls to 9-Year Low

    The U.S. unemployment rate is the lowest it has been in almost a decade, according to the newest jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (pdf). According to the report, the unemployment rate declined to 4.6 percent in November, and payroll employment increased by 178,000. It’s been seven years since the recession officially ended,…

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  • Drug Kingpin Marlon Jones Added to FBI's 10 Most Wanted List

    A new fugitive has been added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. Marlon Jones, a Jamaican national, is wanted for the killings of four people at a Los Angeles birthday party Oct. 15. Officials say Jones is “armed and dangerous” and is a member of the East Coast Jamaican gang, according to CNN. “The crimes…

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  • Obama Administration Supports Registering Women for Military Draft

    President Barack Obama is supporting an effort to require women to register for Selective Service when they turn 18, like men, according to ABC News.  “As old barriers for military service are being removed, the administration supports—as a logical next step—women registering for the Selective Service,” Ned Price, a spokesman for Obama’s National Security Council,…

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  • Mike Pence's New DC Neighbors Raise LGBTQ Pride Flags in Protest

    Vice President-elect Mike Pence’s Washington, D.C., neighbors want him to realize they don’t tolerate hate directed toward the LGBTQ community. And they’ve raised gay-pride flags all throughout the neighborhood to put him on notice. Pence’s anti-LGBTQ track record includes signing an Indiana law that would allow businesses to turn away gay and lesbian customers to…

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  • Woman Attacked at Kroger Grocery Store After Asking How to Make Pumpkin Pie

    A Mississippi woman says people stood around and did nothing at a Kroger grocery store when a man attacked her after she asked him how to make pumpkin pie. Nia Jones was at a Southhaven, Miss., Kroger shopping for Thanksgiving supplies, and while she was in the baking aisle, she figured she’d ask the stranger…

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  • Childish Gambino Releases New Funk-Inspired Album Awaken, My Love!

    Fresh on the heels of wrapping up the first season of his hit FX series, Atlanta, Childish Gambino, aka Donald Glover, is back to making music. Funky, soul-filled music, that is. On Friday, Glover dropped his new album, Awaken, My Love!, which pays homage to artists like Funkadelic and Sly & the Family Stone. From soulful guitar rifts to…

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  • Lee Daniels, Queen Latifah Talk About the Upcoming Season of Star

    Lee Daniels is well aware that when his newest Fox series, Star, premieres Wednesday, Dec. 14, many comparisons will be made to his hit show, Empire. But that is expected. When news hit about the series, which stars three young newcomers, it was billed as an Empire spinoff, but that’s definitely not the case. Star tells the…

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  • Honey Bun Baby Is Newest Viral Meme Baby

    When 22-month-old Ashton Howell’s mother saw a meme of her son, she didn’t know what to think. But she wanted to track down the person who posted her son’s image to the internet. Ariel Griggs, 29, of Mobile, Ala., had no clue that her brother, 18-year-old Steven Small, a freshman at University of California, Berkeley, had posted…

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  • Honey Bun Baby Is Newest Viral Meme Baby

    When 22-month-old Ashton Howell’s mother saw a meme of her son, she didn’t know what to think. But she wanted to track down the person who posted her son’s image to the internet. Ariel Griggs, 29, of Mobile, Ala., had no clue that her brother, 18-year-old Steven Small, a freshman at University of California, Berkeley, had posted…

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