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Embassies in Cuba and US Reopen After 50 Years
For the first time in 50 years, Cuba and the U.S. will have embassies on each other’s soil, one more step in rebuilding the relationship that was shattered decades ago, USA Today reports. According to the report, on Monday the Cuban flag will officially be raised in Washington, D.C., as part of a daylong series…
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Family Says 19-Year-Old Killed by Tenn. Officer Was Mistaken for Someone Else
A Memphis, Tenn., teen was killed by a police officer over the weekend in what his family says is a case of mistaken identity, WSMV reports. Darrius Stewart, 19, was the passenger in a vehicle that a Memphis Police Department officer stopped for a broken headlight. The officer issued the driver a ticket and released…
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Texas Mom Charged With Abandoning Kids at Food Court Says She Was Nearby on Job Interview
A single mother of two was arrested and charged with abandoning her children after police found them in a Houston mall eatery, but the children’s mother argues that she didn’t abandon them and that her children were never out of her line of sight. According to KHOU, Laura Browder had a job interview with a…
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Family of Sandra Bland Has Ordered Independent Autopsy
The family of Sandra Bland, the 28-year-old woman whose body was found in a Texas jail three days after she was arrested, has ordered an independent autopsy as questions about how she died remain unanswered. “We want to understand how it is that this kind of played out and what will end up ultimately being…
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‘Black Panther Break Room’: Workers Accuse American Airlines of Racial Discrimination
In a letter to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, a Pennsylvania attorney claims that at least 80 African Americans and other minority employees at American Airlines in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., were the victims of racial discrimination, according to NBC Philadelphia. The letter from the Philly-based Mildenberg Law Firm, which represents maintenance, catering and baggage…
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KKK Confederate-Flag Rally Fizzles Amid Scuffles at SC Statehouse
Scuffles broke out Saturday at the South Carolina Statehouse in Columbia after members of the Ku Klux Klan held a rally to protest a decision to remove the Confederate flag from the grounds of the Statehouse, reports Al-Jazeera. About 100 members of the KKK and other white supremacist groups were greeted by about 400 African-American…
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Bill Cosby Used Fame, Deceit and Drugs to Lure Young Women Into Sex, Report Says
More damaging information about Bill Cosby surfaced Saturday with the publication of previously undisclosed testimony in which the actor himself describes how he took sexual advantage of young women. In stunning detail, the fallen 78-year-old television icon describes how he used his fame, drugs and manipulation to ensnare women to satisfy his sexual whims, according…
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Obama, Malia and Sasha Hit Up NYC, Take in Broadway Matinee, Stroll in Central Park
America is used to seeing President Barack Obama in his role as a world leader, but rarely as a father. On Saturday he changed things up, traveling to New York City with Sasha and Malia to spend some “father time” with his daughters and to attend a fundraiser, according to the New York Daily News.…
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Violence Spikes in Chicago; 2 Dead, 17 Wounded Since Friday Night
Since Friday, two men were killed and at least 17 other people were wounded in shootings on Chicago’s South and West sides, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. Last weekend, six people died and 26 were wounded in shootings in Chicago, reports the Chicago Tribune. That’s not all. An estimated 135 more people have been shot…
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Man Who Covered Home in Confederate Flags After Church Massacre Is Arrested
A North Carolina man who covered his home with Confederate flags after the Charleston, S.C., church massacre was arrested on a parole violation and put behind bars this week, according to the Daily Mail. The man, Edward Lee West, 69, of Rocky Mount, N.C., was taken to Nash County jail on Wednesday on a probation-violation…