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Nigerian Man Scams US Companies out of $3,700,000, Sentenced to 46 Months in Prison
If you are tasked with handling company finances, you may want to double- and triple-check the next time you seemingly get an email from your CEO asking you to wire company money elsewhere. According to the Dallas Morning News, one Nigerian man was able to scam several U.S. companies out of millions of dollars by…
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Apparently, Omarosa Was the White House’s Willona From Good Times
Ever since Omarosa Manigault was hired by the Trump administration, she has been the most prominent of “Trump’s blacks,” even though no one can explain what she actually does inside the White House. Was she hired to reach out to black America? Is she simply a token employed to give the Trump administration street cred?…
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YouTuber PewDiePie Uses Racial Slur During Live Video Game Streaming
Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg may be YouTube’s highest-grossing user, but he’s also back in the limelight for his use of a racial slur. But it’s not his first time at the racist rodeo. On Sunday afternoon, Kjellberg, 27, was streaming and playing “PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds,” when he went on a rant, and let the n-word “slip” through:…
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Chicago Woman Found Dead in Ill. Hotel Freezer
A 19-year-old Chicago woman was found dead early Sunday morning inside the freezer of a Rosemont, Ill., hotel, police say. Kenneka Jenkins was last seen early Saturday morning while attending a party on the ninth floor of the Crowne Plaza hotel. She was reported missing hours later around 1:15 p.m. Saturday before ultimately being discovered,…
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DC Protesters Remember Terrence Sterling, Unarmed Motorist Killed by Police, 1 Year Later
Before the sun came up Monday morning, protesters had gathered at Third and M streets in Northwest Washington, D.C., to commemorate the first anniversary of the death of Terrence Sterling, an unarmed man who was shot and killed by police after his motorcycle hit a cruiser. The morning began with a candlelight vigil at 4:20…
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The Cleveland Browns’ Message on ‘Unity’ Is About as Bad as That Punt Attempt
The Cleveland Browns, the one NFL team that have been the most demonstrably vocal in support of Colin Kaepernick’s principled stance against racial bias in U.S. policing, played a video before the start of the national anthem in their first game of the season Sunday. And it was … interesting. Against a backdrop of patriotic…
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Family of Jahi McMath, the Teen Declared Brain-Dead, ‘Overjoyed’ That Jury Will Decide if She Is Still Alive
The family of Jahi McMath, the teen who was declared brain-dead after a tonsillectomy more than three years ago but who they insist is still alive, has finally gotten a step closer to having the case resolved via the legal system. The Associated Press reports that a California judge ruled this week that Jahi, now…