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Las Vegas prison officials released O.J. Simpson on Oct. 1 after the paroled ex-football player served nine years of a 33-year sentence.
The rejection of the books is unlikely to have an impact on the First Lady’s mission to help schools. When first lady Melania Trump sent packages of Dr. Seuss children’s books to one deserving school in each state across the country to celebrate National Read-a-Book Day earlier this month, she likely didn’t expect any […]
The funeral for Kenneka Jenkins, a teen whose body was discovered in a Chicago hotel, will take place on Saturday.
The president posted a series of angry morning tweets from his New Jersey golf resort. Donald Trump lashed out at the mayor of Puerto Rico’s capital city Saturday morning and accused her of having “poor leadership ability.” The president’s Twitter rant aimed at San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz came as Puerto Rico was in the midst […]
While confederate monuments are being protested across the nation, Philadelphia erects its own monument to Black Civil War hero Octavius Catto.
Eighteen-year-old Xavier Olesko thought he was going to hang out with three acquaintances on the evening of September 18. Instead, he was shot to death in a northwestern suburb of Fort Worth, Texas.
A Louisiana superintendent threatened punishment against students who refuse to stand during the national anthem Wednesday, just days after Trump made a controversial call against recent NFL protests.
LOS ANGELES — A Southwest Airlines passenger who said she had a life-threatening pet allergy was physically removed from a Los Angeles-bound plane prior to taking off in Baltimore Tuesday, and the incident was captured by fellow passengers on video, according to KTLA. Passengers were already aboard Southwest Flight 1525 when the pilot and several Baltimore […]
Rick Pitino’s future as a college basketball coach is in doubt after the University of Louisville fired him Wednesday morning over criminal allegations that include bribing a prized recruit.
President Trump definitely deleted his old tweets about Luther Strange in the wake of the interim senator losing the Alabama Republican runoff to Roy Moore, but Trump’s anger about the candidate he endorsed getting trounced by the candidate Steve Bannon endorsed goes even deeper than huffily (and illegally) deleting presidential records. According to a CNN report spearheaded by Jim Acosta, Trump […]
New data from the Federal Reserve indicates that nearly all families are financially better off from 2013 to 2016, with Black and Latino families experiencing the largest gains.
Support for NFL players in the wake of the backlash from Donald Trump is growing, with at least one NBA legend and the casts of two television shows taking to social media on bended knee. Shonda Rhimes and the cast of “Grey’s Anatomy” knelt for the cause, and shared the pic on Instagram Tuesday. Rhimes joined director Debbie Allen and […]