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Well, This Is Awkward: Obama's Half Brother to Be Trump's Guest at Wednesday's Debate
First it was Bill Clinton’s accusers; now Donald Trump is bringing President Barack Obama’s half brother, Malik, to the final presidential debate Wednesday. It’s unclear what Trump hopes to accomplish by bringing Obama’s brother, who has dual citizenship and spends most of his time in Kenya and some time in Washington D.C., to the debate,…
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Letter From Calif. Shooting Victim Sent to Family More Than a Decade Later
Aaron Vickers was 19 when he was killed in a drive-by shooting in South Stockton, Calif., in 2002. In 2000 he had written a letter for a school assignment addressed to his future self, and his parents recently received that letter, according to the New York Daily News. Daryl Hutchins, Vickers’ former teacher at Plaza…
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Report: To Avoid Scutiny, Chicago Police Officer Didn’t Shoot Suspect for Beating Her
Parta Huff, 28, was arrested for attacking a female police officer while allegedly high on PCP. Chicago police say that she should have shot the man, but she chose not to because she feared that the shooting would be controversial, CBS News reports. Apparently the incident started when a police officer and her partner witnessed a car crash…
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Jury: Derrick Rose and 2 Friends Did Not Rape Accuser
Updated Wednesday, Oct. 19, 4:40 p.m. EDT: It took a Los Angeles jury only three hours to determine that Derrick Rose and two friends—Randall Hampton and Ryan Allen—had consensual sex with a woman who claimed that the men gang-raped her, according to the Los Angeles Times. Rose and the woman had been in an open…
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Pa. Mom Claims Teacher Put a Bar of Soap in 10-Year-Old's Mouth
A Pennsylvania mom is outraged after, she says, a teacher put a bar of soap in her son’s mouth as punishment, WHP-TV reports. “I was very upset, hurt, confused. I just didn’t understand why this even had to happen,” Ciara White said. White said that her 10-year-old son, Donald Thomas, got into an argument with…
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Olympic Sprinter Tyson Gay Speaks for the 1st Time Since His Daughter's Death
Speaking for the first time since his daughter’s death, Tyson Gay told a crowd of friends and family gathered at an emotional candlelight vigil in Lexington, Ky., Monday night that he wanted to see an end to “senseless” violence. “I don’t want to read in the paper next week about another senseless killing. It has…
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Student Offended After Okla. High School Teacher's Lecture: 'To Be White Is to Be Racist'
An Oklahoma high school student is speaking out after recording her teacher telling students that “to be white is to be racist,” while lecturing on how to “heal the racial divide,” KFOR reports. The Norman North High School student said that she was shocked by the lecture, and so she pulled out her phone and started…
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Former Ark. Judge Accused of Giving Lenient Sentences in Exchange for Sexual Favors
A former Arkansas judge has been arrested and accused of giving lenient sentences to male defendants in exchange for sexual favors he allegedly referred to as “community service,” the Washington Post reports. O. Joseph Boeckmann, 70, a former district court judge from Wayne, Ark., who was removed from his post earlier this year, was taken…
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Protesters Sue El Cajon, Calif., Its Police Over Arrests at Alfred Olango Vigil
Several protesters who were arrested at a vigil for Alfred Olango in El Cajon, Calif., on Oct. 1 have filed a lawsuit, accusing police of violating their civil rights by wrongfully ordering them to disperse, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. Protesters insist that the protest was peaceful and that they were only ordered to leave…