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  UPDATE:  CHICAGO (AP) – Four black people were charged with hate crimes Thursday in connection with a video broadcast live on Facebook that showed a mentally disabled white man being beaten and taunted, threatened with a knife and forced to drink from a toilet. The assault went on for hours, until Chicago police found […]

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ROLESVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A school resource officer in North Carolina has been placed on leave after a brief video posted online shows him picking up and slamming a female high school student to the ground. Authorities are investigating the eight-second video posted Tuesday on Twitter. The video itself doesn’t show what led up to […]

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Several NAACP protesters led by their national president were escorted away in handcuffs by police after staging a sit-in Tuesday at the Alabama office of Sen. Jeff Sessions, the nominee for U.S. attorney general, the civil rights group said. The organization held the demonstration to protest Sessions’ nomination by President-elect Donald […]

CORCORAN, Calif. (AP) — A California prison official says cult leader Charles Manson is alive following reports that he was hospitalized. TMZ reported Tuesday that Manson was taken to a hospital in Bakersfield, about 60 miles south of the California prison where he has been incarcerated. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokeswoman Terry Thornton […]

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Two Toronto sisters black mailed a billionaire businessman into giving them cash.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — When Michelle Obama helps recognize the school counselor of the year later this week, it will also mark her final White House event as first lady, aides said Tuesday. Mrs. Obama has presided over a White House ceremony each January since 2015 honoring school counselors, who she says are often the “deciding […]

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Surrounded by her family and close friends, Harris, California's sitting Attorney General, vowed to serve the people to her utmost ability.

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CHICAGO (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump says Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel should ask for federal help if he isn’t able to bring down a homicide count that soared last year to 762 — the most killings in nearly two decades and more than New York and Los Angeles combined. Trump pointed to the spike in […]

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Omarosa Manigault is getting hired. A memorable contestant in the first season of “The Apprentice,” Manigault is expected to join President-elect Donald Trump’s White House staff, according to two people familiar with the decision. Her job is expected to focus on public engagement. Manigault was one of Trump’s most prominent African-American supporters during the campaign […]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans abruptly reversed themselves Tuesday under pressure from President-elect Donald Trump and dropped plans to gut an independent congressional ethics board. The dizzying about-face came as lawmakers convened for the first day of the 115th Congress, an occasion normally reserved for pomp and ceremony under the Capitol Dome. Instead, House Republicans […]

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President Barack Obama will deliver his farewell address to the country on January 10 in Chicago, his adopted hometown and location of his victory speech eight years ago in Grant Park, which drew more than 200,000 people. Tuesday’s speech will take place at around 9 p.m. from McCormick Place, where he celebrated his 2012 re-election […]

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The marching band of Alabama’s oldest private, historically black liberal arts college has accepted an invitation to perform at President-elect Donald Trump‘s inaugural parade, organizers said. Talladega College’s band will march at Trump’s inauguration as other historically black schools such as Howard University, which performed at President Barack Obama’s first inaugural parade, said they won’t […]