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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell knew that Ray Rice punched his then-fiancee, Janay Palmer, because Rice told him as much in person, according to sources who spoke with ESPN. “Ray didn’t lie to the commissioner,” a source with knowledge of the meeting told ESPN. “He told the full truth to Goodell—he made it clear he had…

Oscar Pistorius—the double-amputee Olympic athlete on trial in South Africa for fatally shooting his model girlfriend—has been found guilty of culpable homicide and could face jail time. On Thursday Pistorius was found not guilty of two of the most serious murder charges, the New York Times reports. “Judge [Thokozile Matilda] Masipa cleared Mr. Pistorius of two…

Women in Missouri who decide to terminate their pregnancies now have to wait 72 hours after consulting with their doctors before going forward with the abortion, Al-Jazeera reports. Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon, a Democrat, initially tried to veto the piece of legislation mandating this 72-hour waiting period, but the state’s Republican-led Legislature overruled his veto Wednesday.…

Author Mark Whitaker will release his much-anticipated biography of Bill Cosby this week, three decades after the comedian debuted The Cosby Show and single-handedly altered the portrayal of African Americans on television. Could Cosby have known back then that the NBC sitcom would become an immediate hit? “Oh sure, I recognized it,” he told The Root…

Georgia state Sen. Fran Millar reportedly is outraged at the opening of an early-voting location in a mall patronized predominantly by African Americans. Millar, a Republican, voiced his opposition after DeKalb County announced that early voting would begin Oct. 26 and would have a location at the Gallery at South Dekalb Mall, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. According to…

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Editor’s note: Verdicts in the Oscar Pistorius case are being rendered Thursday and Friday by Judge Thokozile Matilda Masipa. The judge has already ruled that Pistorius is not guilty of the premeditated murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Masipa will continue to read her findings on lesser charges in court on Friday. Here is some…

On Wednesday the NFL announced that a former FBI director would investigate how NFL officials and league management handled evidence involving former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice’s assault of his wife, Janay Rice, when she was his fiancee.   The move comes after reports that the NFL was sent video footage as far back…