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A St. Augustine, Fla., Burger King worker was arrested Wednesday after he reportedly set his uniform on fire after learning he had been let go. Timothy Alejandro Ortiz, 24, was supposed to return his uniform to his manager, but he allegedly stormed out of the store with his shirt and hat in hand and then,…

A Chicago man was found guilty Saturday of first-degree murder for giving a gun to his niece to handle a Facebook dispute. According to the Chicago Tribune, 27-year-old Donnell Flora was convicted over an April 2014 incident in which he gave his then-14-year-old niece a .38-caliber revolver, which prosecutors say the teen then carried to…

The United Nations revealed six new alleged child-sex-abuse cases by peacekeepers in the Central African Republic, the Associated Press reports. U.N. officials said at a press conference Friday that five girls and a boy accused European troops of abusing them. According to a statement from the U.N. human rights office, the youngest victim, a 7-year-old…

Georgia Davis Powers, a leading figure in the struggle for racial equality in Kentucky, died at age 92, the Associated Press reports. Powers reportedly passed away Saturday at her brother’s home in Louisville, Ky. Her longtime friend Muhammad Ali said, “She was fighting for equality for all people while I was still fighting for my…

Jacksonville, Fla., police said Saturday that a 22-month-old boy died in a drive-by shooting, NBC News reports. The toddler, Aiden Michael McClendon, was in a parked car Friday night with his mother and grandmother when a white vehicle opened fire. Aiden was struck three times and taken to a hospital, where he died from the…

The Screen Actors Guild displayed its appreciation of black actors Saturday night. Several black performers received SAG awards for TV performances: Queen Latifah for her role as blues singer Bessie Smith in Bessie, Viola Davis for How to Get Away With Murder, Uzo Aduba for Orange Is the New Black and Idris Elba for his role in Luther. Elba…

The White House announced Saturday that President Barack Obama will visit a mosque in Maryland, the Baltimore Sun reports. Obama plans to meet with community leaders Wednesday and deliver remarks at the Islamic Society of Baltimore. It will be Obama’s first visit to a U.S. mosque during his time in office. “As the president has said, Muslim…

Elizabeth Warren took it straight to President Barack Obama and his administration for being soft on enforcement against big corporations and white-collar crime in a New York Times op-ed Friday.  In the piece entitled “One Way to Rebuild Our Institutions,” Warren concedes that the Obama administration has a strong track record in using executive actions…

A 16-year-old girl at an Elizabethtown, Ky., juvenile-detention facility was restrained with a martial arts move for refusing to remove her sweatshirt during booking. The otherwise healthy teen was found dead in her cell the next morning. According to WDRB, Gynnya McMillen was booked at about 2 a.m. on Jan. 10 for a domestic-violence-related offense…