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Long Island school’s ‘culturally insensitive’ photo of black students with monkey leads to lawsuit

Long Island school’s ‘culturally insensitive’ photo of black students with monkey leads to lawsuit

DNY59/iStock(BROOKHAVEN, N.Y.) — A group of black high school students on Long Island claims their science teacher included racially insensitive images in a class presentation that referenced them as monkeys and now they’re planning to sue. Longwood High School students Jahkeem Moye, Khevin Beaubrun, Gykye Murray and Desmond Dent Jr. […]

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Georgia Jane Doe murder victim identified by DNA almost 40 years after killing

Georgia Jane Doe murder victim identified by DNA almost 40 years after killing

Georgia Bureau of Investigations(NEW YORK) — A Jane Doe murder victim who has remained nameless since her body was discovered in a Georgia cornfield on Halloween 1981 has finally been identified almost 40 years later. On Thursday, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) announced that the “Brooks County Jane Doe” […]

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Organization donates wardrobes for transgender children; gets boost from late-night host

Organization donates wardrobes for transgender children; gets boost from late-night host

fizkes/iStock(CINCINNATI) — A Cincinnati LGBTQ organization received a blessing in the form of a celebrity retweet this week when late-night talk show host Seth Meyers urged his followers to support the organization’s fundraiser. The co-founders of Transform, a donation-based organization that helps transgender children build wardrobes to fit their new […]

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19-year-old Army National Guard soldier found dead at Fort Jackson

19-year-old Army National Guard soldier found dead at Fort Jackson

iStock(FORT JACKSON) — A 19-year-old Army National Guard soldier was found dead at Fort Jackson less than four months after an Army recruit died on the same post. The soldier, Pvt. Connor J. McGurran, a native of Owatonna, Minnesota, was found unresponsive by fellow soldiers during a training exercise Wednesday […]

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Teacher charged after video shows him lifting teen, carrying him out of classroom

Teacher charged after video shows him lifting teen, carrying him out of classroom

Flagler County Sheriff’s Office(PALM COAST, Fla.) — A teacher in Florida is facing a charge of simple battery, after cellphone footage taken during class showed him lifting a 14-year-old student out of his desk and shoving him out of the classroom. The incident occurred Tuesday at Buddy Taylor Middle School […]

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New York teen discovers new planet while interning with NASA

New York teen discovers new planet while interning with NASA

iStock(NEW YORK) — A New York teen reached for the stars last summer and found a one-of-a-kind planet. Wolf Cukier, 17, an intern at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, last July, was tasked with going through data on star brightness from the facility’s ongoing Transiting Exoplanet Survey […]

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Phony agents scam Sandy Hook charity with fake promise to book Justin Timberlake for concert: FBI

Phony agents scam Sandy Hook charity with fake promise to book Justin Timberlake for concert: FBI

iStock(SAN ANTONIO, Texas) — When the Sandy Hook Promise foundation wanted to host a benefit concert at the Alamodome in San Antonio, an organizer for the nonprofit turned to Nancy Jean and Carissa Scott, hoping they could book top musical talent to perform. Jean, of Georgia, and Scott, of Mississippi, […]

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Southern border arrests continue to decline, challenges remain for immigration authorities

Southern border arrests continue to decline, challenges remain for immigration authorities

iStock(WASHINGTON) — The number of migrants stopped by authorities along the southern border continued to fall into the final month of 2019, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data released on Thursday. The decline marks a seven-month low in the number of unauthorized migrants attempting to cross the southern […]

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Jailers failed to preserve security video linked to Jeffrey Epstein’s 1st suicide attempt: Officials

Jailers failed to preserve security video linked to Jeffrey Epstein’s 1st suicide attempt: Officials

iStock(NEW YORK) — Security video purportedly showing the outside of millionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s New York jail cell at the time of his attempted suicide in July has been lost, federal prosecutors claim. The five hours of footage taken by a camera outside of Epstein’s cell at the Metropolitan […]

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Weinstein judge won’t recuse himself after scolding producer for phone use in court

Weinstein judge won’t recuse himself after scolding producer for phone use in court

DNY59/iStock(NEW YORK) — A New York trial judge on Thursday denied a motion by Harvey Weinstein’s defense team to recuse himself from the case after vigorously scolding the Hollywood producer earlier this week and threatening to revoke his bail for using a cellphone in the courtroom. In a 15-minute ruling […]

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