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An upstate New York hotel has found a new way to make sure none of their guest post negative reviews on Yelp and we’re not…
What you see above is a map of Detroit. The small colorful dots represent people, plotted to show where they live and their race. Whites are…
Senior White House advisor Valerie Jarrett said that Israeli attacks on Gaza schools and hospitals were “indefensible” during a recent appearance on “Face the Nation.”…
The documentary “Finding Fela” tells the story of Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s life, his music, his social and political importance. He created a new musical movement,…
Lekeshia Jones, 34, a former business teacher at Myers Middle School in Savannah, Georgia, was fired by the Savannah-Chatham school board after it was discovered that several…
This has got to be one on the absolute worst mistakes a funeral home can make. Imagine you have had a wonderful “Homegoing Celebration” for your beloved 81-year-old mother, only to learn days later that someone else was buried in her plot instead. That’s what happened to Bruce Lawson from Houston, Texas, who, according to […]
TLANTA (AP) — The second American aid worker recently diagnosed with Ebola in west Africa is en route to Atlanta. A chartered plane equipped to contain infectious diseases took off at 1:12 a.m. local time (9:12 p.m. EDT Monday) from Monrovia, Liberia. An Associated Press reporter saw the four-vehicle convoy arrive at the airport. Although […]
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Two days after warning some 400,000 people in Ohio and Michigan not to drink their tap water, the mayor of Ohio’s fourth-largest city declared on Monday that the water was now safe and took a sip. The city lifted the advisory after dozens of tests over the weekend showed an algae-induced […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A major trait that endeared Jim Brady to the Washington press corps was his sense of humor, especially when he made fun of his own boss. When Ronald Reagan was campaigning for president in 1980, Reagan drew scorn from environmentalists for saying that trees were a greater source of pollution than cars. […]
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The doctor who treated a man who flew to Nigeria and died of Ebola now has contracted the disease, authorities said Monday, presenting a dire challenge to Africa’s most populous nation as the regional toll for the outbreak grew to 887 dead. As Nigerian health authorities rushed to quarantine others who […]
ERUSALEM (AP) — Israel and Hamas on Monday accepted an Egyptian cease-fire proposal meant to halt a bruising monthlong war that has claimed nearly 2,000 lives, raising hopes that the bloodiest round of fighting between the bitter enemies could finally be coming to an end. Still, both sides signaled a rough road ahead, with an […]
DETROIT (AP) — A suburban Detroit man said Monday that he was afraid when an unknown woman showed up on his porch before dawn one morning last year, but that he refused to be a victim in his own home. “I wasn’t going to cower in my house,” Theodore Wafer told jurors at his trial […]
