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It’s unclear what led to a deadly shooting by Chicago police early Saturday morning. Two families are asking why officers responding to a domestic dispute killed a teenager and a woman, the Chicago Tribune reports. By that evening, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said that “anytime an officer uses force the public deserves answers, and regardless…

Less than a week after six U.S. airmen were killed in a suicide bombing while on patrol outside Afghanistan’s Bagram Air Base, the first family issued a touching holiday message of thanks to the nation’s troops, according to the Washington Post. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama spent part of their Christmas Day…

In a heartfelt social media message to fans on Christmas Eve, superstar singer and dancer Janet Jackson announced that she was postponing her Unbreakable World Tour to undergo surgery. “It breaks my heart to tell you that I am forced to postpone the Unbreakable Tour until the spring,” the 49-year-old star said in a message…

William Guest, a member of Gladys Knight and the Pips who performed throughout the lifespan of the Grammy-winning group from 1953 to 1989, has died, according to the Associated Press. He died of congestive heart failure on Thursday in Detroit, said his sister-in-law, Dhyana Ziegler, notes the report. He was 74. During the group’s heyday,…

Police shot and killed an 18-year-old rapper at Northlake Mall in Charlotte, N.C., on Christmas Eve, according to Newsweek. The shootings sent last-minute shoppers dashing for cover in the deadly and chaotic scene ripped straight from headlines. Daquan Antonio Westbrook, also known as Donkey Cartel, was pronounced dead at the scene. The incident began just…

Newly released audio recordings indicate that at least one Chicago officer asked radio dispatch for Taser support to subdue 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. Radio calls made Oct. 20, 2014, and obtained by NBC Chicago and released Wednesday, demonstrate that minutes before the teen was fatally shot 16 times, an officer tried to request nonlethal force. “Someone…

Ben Carson downplayed reports of plans to reorganize his apparently troubled presidential campaign—just hours after suggesting that a major shake-up was coming. Carson told CNN Wednesday night that reports of personnel changes and confusion in his camp were overhyped. But earlier that day, in a Washington Post interview, the GOP presidential candidate blamed his falling…

An Idaho lunch lady was canned just days before Christmas for giving a hungry middle school student with no money a $1.70 lunch. “I handed her the food and said, ‘Here, we’ll take care of it in a minute,” ‘ Irving Middle School cafeteria worker Dalene Bowden told KPVI after the Dec. 15 incident. Bowden says…

Updated Wednesday, Dec. 23, 5:58 p.m. EST: According to a press release put out by several Black Lives Matter chapters, the protests are part of a “Black Xmas” campaign happening in Minneapolis, Los Angeles, New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area.  Declaring Dec. 23 “Black Xmas,” protesters referenced the death of Sandra…