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WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. drone strike targeted a vehicle in Syria believed to be transporting the masked Islamic State militant known as “Jihadi John,” according to American officials. Whether the strike killed the British man who appears in several videos depicting the beheadings of Western hostages was not known, British Prime Minister David Cameron […]
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The sister of a man who died after three police officers in a small Virginia town repeatedly shocked him with stun guns says the officers should be criminally charged so her family can find justice. “They need to face the justice system the right way,” said Gwendolyn Smalls, the sister of […]
FORT DODGE, Iowa (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said in an interview Thursday that rival Ben Carson has a “pathological temper” that can’t be cured any more than a child molester can be cured. In Iowa he continued the strong criticism, telling people at a rally that he didn’t believe Carson’s story of […]
DOVER, Del. (AP) — Federal and state authorities have charged a uniformed Secret Service officer from Maryland with sending obscene images and texts to someone he thought was a young Delaware girl, sometimes sending online communications while on duty at the White House. Unbeknownst to Lee Robert Moore, 37, the person he thought was a […]
CLEVELAND (AP) — A white Cleveland police officer had no choice but to fatally shoot a 12-year-old black boy carrying a pellet gun, an expert on police use of force said in a report released publicly Thursday by the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office. Retired Florida police officer W. Ken Katsaris is the third expert who […]
BOSTON (AP) — It’s not always the slurs and the other out-and-out acts of racism. It’s the casual, everyday slights and insensitivities. Sheryce Holloway is tired of white people at Virginia Commonwealth University asking if they can touch her hair or if she knows the latest dance move. At Chicago’s Loyola University, Dominick Hall says […]
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — One of the University of Missouri’s first black law school graduates was appointed Thursday to lead the four-campus system through a tumultuous period of racial unrest, drawing praise from students who said he’s well-equipped to confront the problems they felt his predecessor largely ignored. Michael Middleton, 68, has spent 30 years […]
Katina Powell, a self-described former escort at the center of a sex scandal involving the Louisville men’s basketball team, is the target of a new lawsuit from the women she claimed to have pimped to recruits at sex parties, reports ESPN.com. Five women claim that Powell – in her tell-all book, “Breaking Cardinal Rules: Basketball […]
A violent threat has been made against students at Howard University by an anonymous person claiming to be a University of Missouri student, reports WNEW. The threat posted to a web forum Wednesday night reads, “I left MU yesterday because I couldn’t put up with it anymore. I go home to MD and what do […]
LONDON (AP) — A British woman who pretended to be a man to have sex with a female friend has been sentenced to eight years in prison for sexual assault. Prosecutors say 25-year-old Gayle Newland went to great lengths to create a male persona, setting up a Facebook account in the name “Kye Fortune.” The […]
The Huffington Post interviewed four black students at the University of Missouri about their experiences on campus and their encounters with racism. “Cultural insensitivity, racial slurs and de facto segregation are the common threads minority students say separate the 7 percent of black students from the 77 percent white students that make up the school’s […]
Weeks after accusations were made against two women for sexually assaulting a man inside a gas station, the victim is speaking out on what happened that day. In an interview with Washington D.C.’s FOX 5DC, the man, who asked not to be identified, stated that the incident occurred when he was getting gas at the […]
