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New York Giants tight end Daniel Fells is in a battle to save his foot and possibly his life, with NFL.com reporting that Fells has had five surgeries to stop a serious staph infection that was reportedly contracted from a cortisone injection he received after a toe injury. The website reports that Fells is battling a…

A Texas councilman was stunned with a Taser in front of his Prairie View home Thursday during an incident involving police—one of whom was reportedly involved in Sandra Bland’s arrest. According to Click 2 Houston, Prairie View police officers were questioning four men about drug activity when, police say, Councilman Jonathan Miller began interfering with…

President Barack Obama, known for his sharp sense of humor, doled out some funny and critical advice to presidential aspirant Kanye West on Saturday during a Democratic National Committee fundraiser in San Francisco, Calif. An estimated 1,300 people paid between $250 and $10,000 per person to attend the event, which was headlined by West, alongside…

At a news conference Saturday, attorney Gloria Allred said that she questioned Bill Cosby under oath for several hours. The besieged entertainer’s deposition took place the previous day at an undisclosed location in Boston. Allred plans to pursue a second round of questioning, according to the New York Times. The high-profile attorney represents Judy Huth,…

The father of Raven-Symoné, the embattled co-host of TV talk-show The View, spoke out in support of his daughter, who has been under fire in recent days for saying that she would not hire someone with a black-sounding name. In a Facebook post Saturday, Christopher B. Pearman, who is also Raven-Symoné’s ex-business manager and the author of Daddy’s…

Atlanta police are searching for a man who tried to carjack Naomi King, the sister-in-law of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., on Friday when she stopped her car to enter her gated retirement community, WSB-TV reports. Authorities say the assailant approached her vehicle from a nearby wooded area while King was entering the security…

Two outside investigators examining the fatal shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice in November 2014 concluded that Cleveland police officers acted reasonably, CNN reports. Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty released the findings Saturday. He said in a statement that a grand jury will ultimately decide whether criminal charges against the officers are warranted. Tamir was playing…

A Brooklyn, N.Y., grandmother is taking action in a case that many say illustrates police insensitivity toward women of color. Denise Stewart filed a federal lawsuit Oct. 8 against New York City and the police officers who pulled her out of her apartment topless and handcuffed her in the hallway of the building where she…

Updated Saturday, Oct. 10, 6 p.m. EDT: Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan’s call for an economic boycott of Christmas was the “or else” in the “Justice or Else” theme of the 20th-anniversary Million Man March on Saturday. He said that the mass action could serve as a wake-up call for whites, who he said…

A judge released disturbing video footage of El Centro, Calif., police refusing to provide medical help to a dying man, including telling a 911 dispatcher to ignore his family’s calls for an ambulance, reports the Associated Press. The 15-minute video was ordered released Thursday by a judge in a wrongful death suit filed by the…