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Remember when dance-offs were just friendly competitions where dancers battled to be the best person or team with the best moves? Well that went out the window as two rival high school drill teams went in on each other with a dance-off after a recent football game in Dallas, Texas over someone getting their hair […]

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BALTIMORE (AP) — A transgender inmate who says she was called “it” and “some kind of animal” by guards who watched her shower has won a legal victory that forces the Maryland prison system to better train for how to treat transgender people, advocates say. Neon Brown, who goes by Sandy, said in a grievance […]

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DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man accused of trying to drown his children could face new charges after one daughter died in a hospital. The 3-year-old daughter of Alan Tysheen Eugene Lassiter died Wednesday, three days after her father tried to drown her and her sister in an apartment complex pond, police said. […]

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FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — When authorities discovered that a high school couple had sent each other nude selfies, the two 16-year-olds were plunged into a legal morass with the potential to be branded sex offenders for life. The Fayetteville teens were accused of being both the victims of child pornography and the perpetrators of the […]

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MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — The latest developments from a stampede on the third day of the annual hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. ___ 12:50 p.m. Saudi Arabia’s civil defense directorate says the death toll from a stampede at the annual hajj pilgrimage has risen to at least 310 people. The directorate says the victims […]

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MIDDLETOWN, Calif. (AP) — Future rebuilding efforts after the hundreds of millions of dollars in destruction caused by a wildfire burning north of San Francisco will be an opportunity to improve poor, sparsely populated Lake County, California officials said. “We can and we will make this better. I’ve seen it time and time again, disaster […]

An 11-year-old boy had an opportunity to test out his aspirations to become a physician when he helped his mother deliver his baby brother. On Tuesday, Kenyarda Dukes realized she was in active labor and there was no time to get to a hospital. Her son James was the only person home at the time […]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The latest developments in Pope Francis’ visit to the United States. All times local: 12:10 p.m. President Barack Obama has given Pope Francis gifts symbolizing peace and service to the needy. Gift exchanges are customary between U.S. officials and foreign dignitaries. Obama gave Francis a sculpture of an ascending dove that incorporates […]

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BERLIN (AP) — The latest news on the scandal over Volkswagen’s evasion of U.S. emissions controls. All times local. ___ 5:10 p.m. Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn says he is stepping down “in the interests of the company” as it grapples with the emissions scandal. Wintekorn said in a statement Wednesday that “Volkswagen needs a fresh […]

      Hillary Rodham Clinton wants to be the next President of the United States and she wants Black voters to know that if they support her, she will return that support when she’s in the nation’s highest office. To that end, she talks to the Tom Joyner Morning Show for an unprecedented conversation with […]

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CHICAGO (AP) — Taco Bell customers in Chicago can now have beer with their burritos and sangria with their soft tacos. The chain opened a location that serves wine, beer, sangria and frozen mixed drinks in Chicago on Wednesday. It’s a first in the U.S. for Taco Bell, which is owned by Louisville, Kentucky-based Yum […]

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SHALIMAR, Fla. (AP) — A veteran sheriff’s deputy who was shot and killed while serving a domestic violence restraining order had come out of retirement to earn money for trips to Disney World with his young granddaughter. The suspect was later killed in a confrontation with police. Okaloosa County Deputy Bill Myers, 64, died Tuesday […]