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Watch: Texas Cop Pepper-Sprays Student Who Was Recording Him
One Waller, Texas, police officer has been placed on paid administrative leave pending an investigation into his seemingly unprovoked use of pepper spray on a student, KTRK reports. Officer Adolphus Cannon is being investigated by the Waller Police Department regarding the incident, which took place Oct. 6. According to the report, officers were responding to…
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2nd Dallas Health Care Worker Tests Positive for Ebola
Ebola has been diagnosed in a third victim in Texas, and it’s another health care worker who cared for now-deceased patient Thomas Eric Duncan at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, health officials confirmed Wednesday, according to CNN. The worker, identified as Amber Vinson by Reuters, reported having a fever on Tuesday and was promptly isolated. A state…
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Supreme Court Ruling Will Keep Several Texas Abortion Clinics Up and Running
The U.S. Supreme Court knocked down a law in Texas that would have made it difficult for several abortion clinics to stay up and running. According to an Al-Jazeera report, the law would have required Texas abortion clinics to spend millions of dollars on “hospital-level upgrades” so that the facilities would presumably be in top-notch shape…
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CDC to Dispatch Response Team to Any US Hospital With an Ebola Diagnosis
That a Dallas nurse contracted the Ebola virus as she was caring for the Liberian man who was diagnosed and later died from an Ebola infection is a safety mishap that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is not taking lightly. That’s why on Tuesday, the CDC announced new protocols that it would take…
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Police: St. Louis Teen Shot by Off-Duty Officer Had Gunshot Residue on Hand
Vonderrit Myers Jr., the St. Louis teen shot and killed during a stop by an off-duty police officer moonlighting as a security guard, had gun residue on his shooting hand, according to police, confirming earlier police statements that the teen was armed during the incident that ended with the officer firing his weapon some 17…
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Ferguson Has Awakened a Larger Struggle for Racial and Economic Justice in America
There’s a social-justice movement taking hold across the nation. Michael Brown’s death, which turned Ferguson, Mo., into a battleground this past summer, has helped catalyze a larger struggle for racial and economic justice in America. And St. Louis, where 18-year-old Vonderrit Myers Jr. was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer, has witnessed roiling…
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Malia and Sasha Obama: Our Favorite Photos
Sasha and Malia Obama share one of the top spots on Time magazine’s list of “The 25 Most Influential Teens of 2014.” At the ages of 13 and 16 respectively, the Obama sisters have grown up in front of our eyes. Malia is a budding filmmaker and is rumored to be interested in attending Stanford. She…
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Pastor With AIDS Who Admitted to Adultery With Church Members Won’t Step Down
Deacons of the Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church in Montgomery, Ala., have now filed a lawsuit against the Rev. Juan D. McFarland, who shook his congregation when he confessed to sleeping around with church members even though he knew he had AIDS, NBC News reports. Church members voted almost unanimously (80-1) to get rid of the…
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7 HIV / AIDS Lessons From the Montgomery, Ala., Pastor Disaster
Last week’s preacher scandal has enough intrigue and heat for a ShondaLand soap or reality show. But once you get past all the drama in the Rev. Juan D. McFarland’s Montgomery, Ala., church, it’s clear that many of us still have some important lessons to learn about sexually transmitted diseases. If you’re not already up…
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Ebola-Themed Halloween Outfits Expected to Go ‘Viral’
Cultural appropriation and various forms of blackface are usually what’s dredged up from the place of all things offensive and tacky for Halloween, but this year’s Ebola outbreak seems to be attracting the attention of trick-or-treaters looking to up their game when it comes to the distasteful. According to the Associated Press, fake protective gear…