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Genital Cutting Is Traumatizing US Doctors and Their African Patients
The number of female African immigrants living in the U.S. who have had their genitals cut or mutilated is nearing the half-million mark, the New York Times reports. American gynecologists and other health care providers are increasingly being exposed to a custom that many of them are simply not prepared to take on. That 500,000…
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#PrisonBae Gets 2 Years in Federal Prison
California felon Jeremy Meeks, whose mug shot photo broke the Internet long before Kim Kardashian’s nudes, has been sentenced to 27 months in federal prison. According to the New York Daily News, Meeks, 30, “was arrested during a gang sweep June 18 for gun possession in Stockton, Calif.” Since he had already served time in…
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Atlanta Woman Sentenced to 4 Years in Prison for Scalding Woman With Hot Oil
An Atlanta woman was sentenced to four years in prison and 36 years on probation Wednesday for helping to throw hot oil—that had been heated on a stove—on another woman during a fight in February 2014, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Myzelle Chantel Armstrong, 19, and her friends had gotten into it with other women on…
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Former Al-Qaida Operative Says Saudi Royals Sponsored Sept. 11 Terrorists
Zacarias Moussaoui, the French citizen of Moroccan descent and former al-Qaida operative convicted of helping to plan the 9/11 attacks against the U.S., told a federal judge that in the late 1990s, senior royals in Saudi Arabia sponsored al-Qaida—the same group that went on to carry out the Sept. 11 attacks, the New York Times…
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Indiana Girl Scout, 9, Recovering After Being Shot in the Leg
A 9-year-old Girl Scout is on the mend after she was hit by a stray bullet on Tuesday in front of her home in Indianapolis, Fox 59 reports. Sinai Miller was selling Girl Scout cookies with her sisters in the evening when she was hit in the leg. She was taken to the hospital and…
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Dispatcher Tells Frantic Teen Who Saw Father Hit by Car to ‘Stop Whining’
An emergency dispatcher has been reassigned after telling a teen who had witnessed her father being fatally struck by a vehicle to “stop whining,” WJZ reports. According to the news station, the teenage girl saw both her father and his fiancee being hit by a car on the Baltimore-Washington Highway and frantically called 911 for…
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Report: Ill. Congressman’s Press Secretary Compared Black People to Zoo Animals
ThinkProgress has uncovered a series of Facebook posts allegedly made by an Illinois Republican’s senior adviser for policy and communications, in which he made controversial, racially charged comments and endorsed gentrification. Rep. Aaron Schock’s press secretary, Benjamin Cole, who is also a former Baptist pastor, the site notes, apparently made several posts on Oct. 13,…
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Pregnant Teen Who Allegedly Killed Mother in Bali Could Face Death by Firing Squad if Convicted
Heather Mack, the Chicago teen who, along with her boyfriend, is accused of murdering her mother in Bali, has reportedly claimed that she has no representation while she stands trial, the Daily Mail reports. Mack, 19, who is seven months pregnant, and her 21-year-old boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, were charged with premeditated murder for the death…
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Michigan Man Charged With Threatening to Behead NYPD Cop Who Allegedly Choked Eric Garner
Be careful what you post. One Detroit-area man has found himself in federal court after he was arrested and charged with threatening to behead New York City Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo, who was involved in Staten Island dad Eric Garner’s death, the Detroit Free Press reports. According to the report, 29-year-old Alvaro Eduardo Guzman-Telles posted…
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Son of Episcopal Priest Charged With Killing Parents and Little Brother
The 19-year-old son of an Episcopal priest has been charged with capital murder in the deaths of his parents and little brother in Houston, the Associated Press reports. Isaac Tiharihondi was arrested in Jackson, Miss., early Wednesday morning and remains in jail as he awaits extradition to Texas, the news site notes. The family—Israel Ahimbisibwe,…