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Lifetime Has Movie in the Works on Flint Water Crisis, Starring Cher
Lifetime has a movie in the works inspired by the Flint, Mich., water crisis, and singer-actress Cher is slated to be the star. Don’t roll your eyes yet; we haven’t gotten to the best part. This is Cher’s first movie in seven years. According to the Hollywood Reporter, she will portray a Flint resident whose…
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Mexico’s Former President to Trump: ‘I’m Not Paying for That F–king Wall’
Businessman Vicente Fox Quesada, former president of Mexico, took to Twitter to tell President-elect Donald Trump to f—k his couch and his wall. Trump spent the last year and a half saying that he was going to build a wall—a yuge wall—and Mexico was going to pay for it. Well, there’s a little caveat. Now…
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Gunman Behind Fort Lauderdale Airport Shooting That Left 5 Dead ID'd as Esteban Santiago
Updated Friday, Jan. 6, 2017, 3:50 p.m. EST: The gunman behind the shooting at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Florida has been identified as Esteban Santiago, NBC News reports. Santiago is described as a 26-year-old New Jersey native. Senior law-enforcement sources told the network that Santiago had a military ID on him, although it…
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Pa. Pizza Deliveryman Shot Multiple Times by Police Gets $4,400,000 Settlement
A Philadelphia pizza deliveryman who was shot multiple times after plainclothes police officers fired 14 times at his vehicle has agreed to a $4.4 million settlement with the city, the Associated Press reports. Philippe Holland still has bullet fragments in his brain and suffers from a seizure disorder after being hit in the head, neck…
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Embattled Running Back Joe Mixon Is Leaving University of Okla. to Enter NFL Draft
University of Oklahoma running back Joe Mixon, who was caught on video punching a female student in the face in 2014, announced Thursday that he is leaving college to enter the 2017 NFL draft, NBC Sports reports. Mixon sat out the 2014 season after the university was informed about the incident, which left the female…
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NH Dad Fired for Attending Son’s Birth Gets Outpouring of Support, Job Leads
On Jan. 1, 2017, Lamar Austin and his wife, Lindsay, welcomed a baby boy into the world. Little Cainan made news as the first baby to be born in Concord, N.H. However, now the Austins’ story has drawn even more media attention after Lamar lost his job after missing work to be with his family…
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Former NFL Running Back Edgerrin James Saves Wads of Cash in a Box
Former NFL running back Edgerrin James doesn’t keep his savings in a bank; instead he keeps ungodly amounts of cash in a box. That’s right; the onetime Indianapolis Colts great posted a photo on Instagram showing the savings he accumulated in 2016 inside a box he calls his “Vice Boxxx.” According to TMZ Sports, James…
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Trump Wants Taxpayers, Not Mexico, to Pay for Border Wall
President-elect Donald Trump promised his voters a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, and now his transition team and congressional Republicans are trying to figure out if there is any way to slide the wall building into existing legislation without passing a new bill. Two congressional officials and a senior transition-team official with knowledge of the…
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Jeanette Epps to Be 1st African-American International Space Station Crew Member
The timing is impeccable. Just as the highly anticipated movie Hidden Figures—the story of three African-American women who were crucial in the launch of the first American into orbit—hits theaters, more news of black female achievement in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields has hit the presses. NASA announced Wednesday that for the first…