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Michelle Obama Forgoes Headscarf at Saudi Event
First lady Michelle Obama chose to forgo wearing a headscarf at an event Tuesday to commemorate the death of Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah during her and the president’s trip to that country, the Associated Press reports. Her decision is not that controversial, since foreign women can opt out of the Islamic tradition. But according to AP,…
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Pittsburgh Police Say Beating of Man by Cops Caught on Video Was ‘Justified’
On Monday, law-enforcement officials weighed in on an arrest in August that was captured on video and said that the force Pittsburgh police used against a man staying in a halfway house was “justified,” WPXI reports. Lonnie Jenkins was staying at the Renewal Halfway House in Pittsburgh after he was released from prison on drug…
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US Marshals Kill Ohio Narcotics Suspect on Most Wanted List
Jermonte Fletcher, an Ohio man wanted by federal authorities for allegedly distributing cocaine, was shot dead Tuesday morning by U.S. marshals, the New York Daily News reports. The shooting, which happened a little after 8 a.m., is being investigated by authorities. Law enforcement told WBNS-TV that Fletcher was a member of a gang called the…
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Minn. Teen Accidentally Kills 13-Year-Old Brother While Playing Cops and Robbers: Report
A 13-year-old Minnesota boy lost his life when his older brother accidentally shot and killed him with their father’s gun while playing cops and robbers in their home, the New York Daily News reports. The eighth-grader, Suhayb Jamal Hassan, was pronounced dead at the scene. His 15-year-old brother had called the police to report that…
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9 Black Men Convicted in SC of Trespassing at a Whites-Only Lunch Counter Will Have Their Records Wiped Clean
Nine African-American men—one posthumously—are expected to have their criminal records wiped clean of a trespassing conviction they got in 1961 when they staged a sit-in at a whites-only lunch counter in South Carolina, the Associated Press reports. On Wednesday a South Carolina prosecutor will ask a judge “to vacate the arrests and convictions” of the group known…
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CBS Sports Analyst Greg Anthony Caught in Sting, Agreed to Pay Escort $80 for Sex
Greg Anthony’s days as a CBS sports commentator have been on hold since he was suspended indefinitely after news broke that the former NBA player had been arrested for soliciting a prostitute. Now new details have surfaced that Anthony agreed to pay a “D.C. police officer who was working undercover as a prostitute $80,” according…
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Texas Teen Faces Murder Charge for Allegedly Drowning 2-Month-Old
A Dallas teen has been charged with capital murder for allegedly drowning a 2-month-old baby, WFAA-TV reports. The baby, Justice Hull, had been living with her mother’s friend because her mother was put in jail shortly after giving birth. According to the report, when the friend left for work on Monday, the friend’s 14-year-old daughter drowned…
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Detroit Man Faces Jail for Refusing to Pay Child Support for Child Who Is Not His
The state is still after a Detroit man who has been ordered to pay $30,000 in back child support for a child he says is not his, a DNA test proves is not his and whose mother admits is not his child. Carnell Alexander was back in court Friday to face a Detroit judge at…
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Ex-CIA Officer Convicted of Leaking Classified Intel to a Reporter
Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA officer, was found guilty Monday of leaking classified information to a New York Times reporter, the Associated Press reports. The top-secret information included details about a U.S. mission to compromise Iran’s nuclear program. A Virginia jury convicted Sterling, 47, “of all nine counts he faced in federal court,” AP explained. The…
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Yale on the Detainment of Charles Blow’s Son: This Isn’t Ferguson
Yale’s president, dean and chief of police, in an email to the campus community Monday, described how even though Charles Blow’s son—a junior at Yale—fit the description of a burglary suspect at the time he was detained, the fact that the officer drew his weapon during the incident “requires a careful review.” “For this reason, the…