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Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson says that he pulled his proposed tax plan straight out of the Bible, Raw Story reports.  It’s “tithing,” the former neurosurgeon explained to Fox News host Chris Wallace Sunday, describing his plan as one in which everyone would pay according to his or her ability. “You make $10 billion a…

Sierra Mccurdy was fired from her job at a Subway sandwich shop for allegedly gloating in a Facebook post about how two Mississippi police officers were slain Saturday, the New York Daily News reports. In screenshots that have circulated online, a post from Mccurdy’s Facebook account read: “2 police officers was shot in Hattiesburg tonight!…

WNBA stars Brittney Griner and Glory Johnson were married Friday afternoon at an outdoor ceremony on a mountaintop in Phoenix, the couple tells People magazine. About 75 guests attended the ceremony as the women, both 24, married beneath an archway at the Pointe Hilton Tapatio Cliffs Resort, the report says. They were surrounded by an…

A Georgia principal is under fire after making offensive remarks about blacks at a graduation ceremony Friday night, according to MyFoxAtlanta. Nancy Gordeuk, the principal of TNT Academy in Lilburn, Ga., apologized Saturday for remarks she made after becoming upset when students began leaving before the valedictorian’s speech. She yelled at students and even called…

In an effort to draw attention to police brutality and racial injustice, scores of mothers marched Saturday in Washington, D.C., to call attention to the problems, reports USA Today. Maria Hamilton, founder of Mothers for Justice United, helped organize the Million Moms March along with the Coalition for Justice, the report says. Dontre, Hamilton’s 31-year-old…

Two brothers and a woman were arrested early Sunday on charges of shooting and killing two Hattiesburg, Miss., police officers during a routine traffic stop that took place just hours earlier, according to the Chicago Tribune. Marvin Banks, 29, and Joanie Calloway, 22, have each been charged with two counts of capital murder, and Banks’…

After months of alleged squabbling among family members as Whitney Houston’s daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, remains hospitalized, lawyers for her father, Bobby, as well as for her grandmother Cissy Houston and aunt Pat Houston, issued a statement Friday about who will oversee the medical care of the 22-year-old, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Bobby Brown and Pat…

Editor’s note: First lady Michelle Obama’s speech to the graduating class at Tuskegee University Saturday, May 9, 2015, was transcribed by the White House. Mrs. Obama: Thank you all. [Applause.] Thank you so much. [Applause.] Let’s let our graduates rest themselves. You’ve worked hard for those seats! [Applause.] Let me start by thanking President Johnson…

In the wake of a scandal over racist and homophobic text messages that rocked the San Francisco Police Department, the city’s prosecutors have dismissed at least eight criminal cases out of concerns about bias among 14 officers, reports the Associated Press. District attorney’s spokesman Max Szabo told the news agency Friday that the department did…

Charles Craddock of Cleveland is studying mechanics at a local community college, and he needs a steady job to help pay his tuition, ABC News reports. So it was a godsend when the 20-year-old landed a job recently as a food-service associate at Cedar Point amusement park, which describes itself as the “roller coaster capital…