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  • NC Man Charged With DWI Allegedly Got Wildly Sauced off Vanilla Extract

    I’ve heard that if you’re ever in a pinch and need to sub in something for vanilla extract, maple syrup will work just as well. Now we also know if you’re ever in need of—I don’t know, getting blindingly drunk and crashing your car into a pole but don’t have any actual booze—vanilla extract will…

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  • 1 Fish, 2 Fish, No More Whitefish: Puerto Rico Cancels Controversial Energy Contract

    The Puerto Rican Electric Power Authority, amid mounting controversy surrounding its $300 million contract with Whitefish Energy, has decided to cancel the deal. As CBS News reports, Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo RossellĂł announced early Sunday that he wanted the no-bid contract with the small, 2-year old Montana company to be canceled “immediately.” The governor’s decision…

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  • AKAs Come to Defense of Soror Frederica Wilson

    As racist attacks and threats continue against Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.), Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority has issued a rallying cry around its soror. According to the Miami Herald, the historically black sorority—the nation’s oldest—has released a statement pledging support for the Democrat from Florida, who has feuded publicly with the Trump administration over its treatment…

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  • ‘You Know My Heart’: Why White People Still Do Blackface

    ‘You Know My Heart’: Why White People Still Do Blackface

    In 2015 a white Alabama schoolteacher was forced to write a public apology after pictures of him dressed up in blackface for Halloween went viral. The teacher, Heath Morrow, was dressed up as Kanye West; his wife as Kim Kardashian West. Morrow donned a blazer, a backward baseball hat and shutter shades—the sort of look…

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  • Chicago Tribune Report Finds Black and Low-Income Residents Pay the Most for Water

    In America, being poor is expensive. Being poor and black is even more costly. A recent, must-read Chicago Tribune investigation illuminates precisely how by taking a look at one of the most basic human needs: water. The Tribune analyzed how much different communities across the Chicago region were paying for water pumped from Lake Michigan…

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  • Energy Company Tasked With Bringing Power Back to Puerto Rico Gets Into Twitter Beef With Mayor Instead

    The company tasked with repairing Puerto Rico’s power grid and restoring electricity to the island got into a public Twitter spat with the mayor of San Juan Wednesday after she said in an interview that the small Montana firm’s $300 million contract should be voided. According to Yahoo! News, the online feud ended Wednesday with…

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  • Paris, Texas, Is Site of Racial Animosity Again as Confederate Flags Pop Up at High School

    Paris, Texas, a town with a long history of racial strife, is back in the news again after students at Paris High School adorned the backs of their pickup trucks with large Confederate rebel flags Tuesday. Photos of the racist display quickly circulated through social media as parents and students expressed outrage over the flags’…

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  • Former Educator Sexually Assaulted 42 Students and Filmed Sex Acts Over 2-Year Period, Authorities Say

    A harrowing case of serial child sex abuse allegedly involving a former middle school teacher and high school track coach has turned out to be worse than investigators initially thought, officials say. According to WTOP-TV, authorities in Charles County, Md., are returning a 206-count indictment against Charles Deangelo Bell, a former teacher’s aide at Benjamin…

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  • The Pentagon Owes the Families of Troops Killed in Niger an Explanation. Here’s What’s Been Offered So Far

    The Pentagon has shared more details about the deadly Oct. 4 ambush in Niger that killed four American and five Nigerian soldiers, although questions surrounding the death of one soldier, Sgt. La David Johnson, remain. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph F. Dunford Jr. told reporters during a press conference that members of…

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    Anne Branigin

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  • Only MLB Player to Kneel During Anthem Denied Service at Ala. Restaurant

    Bruce Maxwell, the first and only Major League Baseball player to kneel during the national anthem, says he “wasn’t even home four hours” before he had to deal with a pro-Donald Trump supporter who was still big mad over the ball player’s gesture. The Oakland Athletics player told TMZ Sports that he had just returned…

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