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Chicago Board of Ed Seeking $65,000,000 From Former District Superintendent Barbara Byrd-Bennett
The Chicago Board of Education is seeking $65 million in damages and penalties from former Chicago Public Schools Superintendent Barbara Byrd-Bennett and other co-defendants involved in a multimillion-dollar bribery scandal, the Chicago Tribune reports. “In plain terms, Defendants have stolen money from Plaintiff and the schoolchildren of the City of Chicago, and that money should…
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Minneapolis NAACP Calling for Action After Lynching Photo Found in Joe’s Crab Shack Table
The Minneapolis NAACP is calling for action after a lynching photo was found in a Joe’s Crab Shack table with a tasteless caption, WCCO reports. According to the organization’s leaders, two black diners, Tyrone Williams and Chauntyll Allen, sat down for a meal at the Roseville, Minn., diner when they noticed the disturbing image inside…
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IHOP Waiter in NYC Charged With Giving Away $3,000 in Soft Drinks; Says He’s the Modern-Day Robin Hood
A Brooklyn, N.Y., IHOP waiter is aligning himself with folk hero Robin Hood, even though he is accused of being a thief, the New York Daily News reports. William Powell, 27, is facing charges of felony grand larceny and possession of stolen property after allegedly giving away more than $3,000 worth of soft drinks over…
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Malia and Sasha Obama Attend Their 1st State Dinner; President Says ‘They Grow Up Too Fast’
The first daughters, Malia and Sasha Obama, looked completely stunning while attending their first state dinner Thursday night, which was held in honor of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. And perhaps it was a timely experience. Trudeau, whose own father was a prime minister from the time he was born until he was 8 years…
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Ala. Honor Roll Student, 7, Faced Suspension Over Part in Haircut
A 7-year-old Birmingham, Ala., boy was facing suspension over a part in his hair. “He was, like, upset, and he said I had to come get him out of school because he was being suspended,” Keisha Rembert told WBRC about when she got the call from her son Rashaad Hunter. “He was pulled out of…
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Calif. Dad Outraged at Racist Comments During High School Girls Basketball Game
A California father and other parents are demanding an apology after Oak Ridge High School fans reportedly yelled racially insensitive slurs during a girls basketball game, KCRA reports. “What the student body would ‘cheer’ during the game is even worse—keep in mind that half of our team is of Asian descent,” Glen Kumamoto told the…
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GOP Donors Pushing for an Independent Candidate to Stop Trump, and You Won’t Believe Who It Is
With Donald Trump looking as if he’ll be the Republican nominee for president, a group of Republican donors asked a Florida-based GOP firm to look for a possible candidate who could make an independent push to unseat both Trump and the eventual Democratic nominee. Data Targeting, the firm hired to research a potential independent solution,…
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6 Killed—Including a Pregnant Woman—in a Backyard Massacre Near Pittsburgh
A heinous massacre in a suburb of Pittsburgh left six dead Wednesday. The Allegheny County prosecutor has described it as execution-style. “The murders were planned, calculated, brutal,” said District Attorney Stephen Zappala to NBC News of the shootings, which happened in Wilkinsburg, a town of about 15,000 just east of Pittsburgh. “They were all head shots,”…
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Ben Carson to Endorse Donald Trump: Report
Ben Carson plans to endorse Donald Trump on Friday morning, according to a report by the Washington Post, citing two anonymous sources. The outlet reports that the endorsement was finalized Thursday morning when Carson met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago, the Palm Beach, Fla., luxury club owned by the Republican front-runner. According to sources, Carson has…
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Ammon Bundy and Crew Face New Federal Charges After Armed Occupation in Ore.
Ammon Bundy and other members of the armed militia that took over a U.S. wildlife refuge in Oregon have been slapped with new federal charges, including carrying firearms into federal property and stealing and damaging government property, Reuters reports. According to the report, the new indictment supersedes an earlier indictment in the case in which…