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Police: Bali Slaying Linked to N-Word Slur
A 21-year-old man became enraged after his girlfriend’s mother used the n-word against him, the girl told Indonesian police investigating the death at a hotel in Bali in August, where the three were guests, according to the Associated Press. Heather Mack, 19, and her boyfriend Tommy Schaefer, 21, are being held as suspects in the…
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Dallas Workers Race to Contain Ebola
In an effort to contain the spread of the deadly Ebola virus, a hazardous-materials crew Friday decontaminated the Dallas apartment where a visitor from Liberia was staying when he fell ill, the Associated Press reports. Residents of the apartment unit where Thomas Eric Duncan had stayed were moved to a private residence in a gated…
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Jahi McMath Moves on Command in Video
Just days after the family of a 13-year-old Oakland, Calif., girl petitioned the courts to have an Alameda County judge declare the teen alive, the family’s lawyer released a video clip showing her responding to verbal commands. In video released Friday, Nailah Winkfield, the mother of Jahi McMath, asks her daughter to move her hand,…
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How the W.K. Kellogg Foundation Hopes to Heal America’s Race Problem
America has a race problem, and one of the best ways to deal with it is to acknowledge the systemic and structural manifestations that help reinforce the country’s contentious racial history. This is what the vice president for policy and senior adviser at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Gail Christopher, says is the focus of the…
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Mentally Ill NC Inmate Died of Thirst, Autopsy Shows
An outraged Invanhoe, N.C., woman is demanding answers after her mentally ill brother was shown to have died from dehydration while serving time, WNCN reports. Last week Brenda Liles told reporters that anyone involved in her brother’s death should go to jail. That was the same Friday that seven people, including nurses and a captain,…
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How to Get Away With Murder Can Make You Feel ‘Lost’
First, a note: This review is filled with spoilers, but if you have clicked on this story, it’s assumed that you, dear reader, are up-to-date on the goings-on of How to Get Away With Murder. If you aren’t, I have two questions that may take some deep thought: The first is “Why aren’t you caught…
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Patient With Ebola-Like Symptoms Being Treated in Washington, DC
A person with Ebola-like symptoms has been admitted to Howard University Hospital in Washington, D.C., reports NBC 4. According to the news station, the patient had recently traveled to Nigeria and was admitted to the hospital in stable condition. Doctors are working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta to determine whether…
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Cops tell Black Kids to Leave Mostly White Neighborhood in NYC: Report
Did police officers tell a group of black teens to get out of the mostly white Brooklyn, N.Y., neighborhood of Park Slope? One witness says yes. According to the New York Daily News, Sara Bennett said that on Sept. 22 she saw a group of five teens walking in the neighborhood when police pulled up…
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Scandal Recap: Olivia Pope Never Fails
We’re two episodes into season 4, and it looks like Shondaland is breaking us in gently: * Olivia is back to sporting white blazers, earnestly rocking a feathered side bang (c’mon, it’s 2014!) and handling and fixing everything—even the things that Abby is being paid to handle and fix. Despite Abby’s shining “Children die” moment…
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Caught Smoking Weed in Philly? You’ll Now Get a $25 Fine, Not Arrested
Critics of the war on drugs are having one hell of a week. First California passes a law Sunday to equalize the prison sentences that black and white defendants convicted of drug crimes receive, and then, on Wednesday, Philadelphia passed legislation that will require police officers to ticket people who are in possession of small amounts of marijuana instead of…