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PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — A judge says she will announce Oscar Pistorius‘ sentence for the murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on July 6. Prosecutors have called for a 15-year jail sentence for Pistorius, the minimum sentence for murder in South Africa. However, a judge can reduce that in some circumstances. Pistorius’ defense lawyer has […]
CHICAGO (AP) — Ebony and Jet magazines, which have chronicled African-American life for the past 71 years, have been sold to an Austin, Texas-based private equity firm. Johnson Publishing Co. announced Tuesday that Ebony and digital-only Jet were sold to Clear View Group but didn’t disclose the sale price. The Chicago Tribune reports Johnson Publishing […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is angrily denouncing Donald Trump‘s anti-Muslim rhetoric, blasting the views of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee as a threat to American security and a menacing echo of some of the most shameful moments in U.S. history. Obama’s rebuke Tuesday was his most searing yet of the man seeking to […]
RODEO, California (AP) — She was a sweet, pretty California girl with Palestinian roots who left an arranged marriage only to find love with a man who committed the worst mass shooting in modern U.S history. Little by little, details have begun to emerge about 30-year-old Noor Zahi Salman, who grew up in the small […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton brought a close to the presidential primary season with a win in the nation’s capital and a meeting with dispatched rival Bernie Sanders, hoping to set a tone of Democratic unity heading into next month’s party convention in Philadelphia. Clinton’s victory Tuesday in the District of Columbia, the final primary […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Girls can run the world. That was the message at the The White House Summit on the United State of Women which brought together 5,000 girls and women across all disciplines and from around the country and the world to hear speakers talk about the education and empowerment of girls and women. […]
One of the survivors of the Orlando nightclub shooting, 20-year-old Patience Carter, spoke about her harrowing experience Tuesday from Florida Hospital Orlando, where she is recovering from a gunshot wound. Carter says she and a group of friends arrived in Orlando from Philadelphia the night before, having never been to the city or the state of […]
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The FBI is investigating reports that Orlando gunman Omar Mateen had been a regular at the gay nightclub he attacked and had used gay dating apps, a U.S. official briefed on the case said Tuesday. A number of possible explanations and motives for the bloodbath that left 49 victims dead have […]
AKRON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio jury has found a 28-year-old man guilty of trying to extort money from former Ohio State star and NFL player Christopher “Beanie” Wells in a botched drug deal. Cleveland.com reports jurors in Akron on Monday convicted Franklin Conley, who had denied prosecutors’ claims that he tried to extort $65,000 […]
CHICAGO (AP) — Elevated lead levels have been found in water in five more Chicago public schools, bringing to 19 the number of buildings where tests have uncovered levels that exceed a federal standard of 15 parts per billion. Chicago Public Schools officials say the district has tested water at 224 of 324 school buildings […]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — As in mass shootings elsewhere, the massacre of 49 people at an Orlando nightclub is raising questions about access to guns — assault rifles, in particular. In Florida, buying one is no problem as long as you’re 18, a legal resident of the United States, aren’t a felon or a domestic […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will travel to Orlando on Thursday to pay respects to the victims of last weekend’s nightclub shooting and to stand in solidarity with the community as it embarks on recovery, the White House said Monday night. Press Secretary Josh Earnest did not provide more details about the trip. Obama […]
