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LA Clippers Owner Allegedly on Tape in Racist Rant
Updated Saturday, April 26, 4:30 p.m. EDT: The NBA announced Saturday that it is conducting a “full investigation” into Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling after TMZ released a recording of a man alleged to be him going on a racist rant, Buzzfeed reports. Updated Saturday, April 26, 12:20 p.m. EDT: Civil rights leaders Saturday…
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Teacher Accused of Performing Lap Dance for 15-Year-old Student
A 42-year-old middle school teacher in Houston, Texas, was arrested last week for allegedly performing a seductive lap dance for a 15-year-old boy in front of a class two months ago, KHOU 11 reports. The teacher, Felicia Smith, 42, was charged with improper relationship with a student, according to a statement from the Aldine Independent…
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Photographer George Hallett Captures the ‘Dignity’ of Apartheid
Beauty, humanity and dignity are, sadly, not the first words that spring to mind when you think of apartheid-era South Africa, with its pernicious brutality and the callous, systematic dehumanization of its nonwhite citizens. And yet the joyful, aesthetically sensitive and uplifting images taken by George Hallett—a Coloured Capetonian and arguably the most talented photographer…
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The Ultimate Performance-Enhancing Drug? Sleep
Editor’s note: Arianna Huffington has spent years building a media empire that includes the popular website Huffington Post, and she is, by any measure, a success. But in 2007 she collapsed at her desk from stress and exhaustion, breaking a bone in her face and injuring an eye. That trauma was the beginning of a…
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Chicago to Name High School After President Obama
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced plans on Thursday to build a high school and name it after hometown hero President Barack Obama, the Associated Press reports. The Barack Obama College Preparatory High School, which is slated to open for the 2017-2018 school year, will be a selective-enrollment high school. Officials at Chicago Public Schools told…
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Teen Charged With Attempted Murder After She Poisoned Easter Collards
A Fayetteville, N.C., teen was upset that her grandmother had taken her cellphone as punishment, so she spiked the Easter Sunday collard greens with insecticide, Breaking 911 reports. Tyt’ana Lisa-Nicole Johnson, 17, is now charged with two counts of attempted first-degree murder after her grandmother Gaylon Moody and a friend of Moody’s ate the collards. According…
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DC-Area Triplets Deciding Between Ivy League Schools
Competition is sweet to the Jones triplets, who use their friendly rivalry to egg each other on and bring out the best in each other—a mindset that has landed them straight on the path toward an Ivy League education, NBC Washington reports. Silver Spring, Md., residents Malik, Ahmad and Kahlil Jones are still deciding whether…
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Pregnant Woman Loses Baby After Shooting Over Facebook Beef
A pregnant woman lost her baby after authorities said the woman was shot in the stomach by another woman with whom she had been arguing on Facebook, the Daily Mail reports. The shooting occurred in Jacksonville, Fla., Wednesday after the expectant mother, identified as 23-year-old Markeisha Brooks, went over to 35-year-old Virginia Wyche’s house to…
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NBA Superstar Joakim Noah Sues Le Coq Sportif for Making Crappy Shoes
NBA superstar Joakim Noah is suing French shoe company Le Coq Sportif for making crappy shoes that the Chicago Bulls center believes damaged his feet, TMZ Sports reports. According to the sports gossip site, Noah filed a lawsuit against the shoe company in a Washington, D.C., court in November claiming that LCS reneged on his…
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Ex-Soldier, Guilty of Murdering 5-Year–Old Daughter, Could Face Death Penalty
A former soldier who brutally murdered his 5-year-old daughter on military property in Hawaii may face the death penalty even though Hawaii abolished capital punishment decades ago, the New York Daily News reports. A federal jury on Thursday found Naeem Williams guilty of beating to death his daughter Talia in July 2005. Beginning Tuesday, jurors…