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WASHINGTON (AP) Michelle Obama has introduced the newest class of National Student Poets. The five 15- to 18-year-olds will promote the reading, writing and appreciation of poetry during a year of service as literary ambassadors, particularly among young people. Each student read original poems for the first lady and guests Thursday at the White House. […]
Extrajudicial killings of Black American men by police officers is not a new phenomenon in this country, but in the wake of several such incidents…
Three more Black women have been accused of prostitution after a man offered to buy them some drinks during a night out in New York.…
JACKSON, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan man is apologizing for trying to throw a football loaded with drugs and cellphones into a state prison yard. Christen D. Moore on Wednesday called the June attempt “a thoughtless and immature decision.” The Jackson Citizen Patriot reports the 22-year-old’s comments came during his sentencing hearing, where he got […]
Players from a New Jersey high school football team said members of another team taunted them with bananas before a game. CBS 2 reports: As CBS 2’s Christine Sloan reported, the players said the harassment involved the use of bananas by the opposing Summit High School team as a racially offensive joke. “It was in […]
More than a month after fatally shooting an unarmed Michael Brown, Darren Wilson got his day in court. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports the Ferguson police officer testified on Wednesday before a grand jury convened to investigate the shooting. An unnamed source familiar with the investigation told the paper that Wilson was “cooperative” as he […]
TORONTO (AP) — Doctors say Toronto Mayor Rob Ford will undergo 40 days of chemotherapy to treat a rare and difficult-to-beat cancer that forced him to drop his bid for re-election. Dr. Zane Cohen, a colorectal surgeon at Mount Sinai hospital, said Wednesday Ford has a malignant liposarcoma. Ford has been hospitalized for a week […]
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A Jack Russell terrier that went missing from its Pennsylvania home has turned up at an animal shelter nearly 3,000 miles away. A good Samaritan this month spotted the 7-year-old dog named Gidget wandering in the Portland suburb of Tualatin, and brought her to the Bonnie L. Hays Animal Shelter, said […]
Pennsylvania newspaper The Lancaster New Era issued an apology, after running a nationally syndicated cartoon that compared commercial airplane seating to the horrifically crowded and…
ATLANTA — Calling the Ebola outbreak in West Africa a potential threat to global security, President Barack Obama (pictured) is ordering 3,000 U.S. military personnel…
NEW YORK (AP) — Wanda Coleman sits in the New York City public housing apartment where she’s lived for 25 years, surrounded by empty rooms,…
DALLAS (AP) — Growth in online shopping is boosting profit at FedEx, and the company plans to hire more than 50,000 extra workers to handle what is shaping up as another record year for holiday-season package deliveries. That’s up from about 40,000 temporary holiday workers hired last year. The hiring plan from FedEx Corp. came […]
