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A ten-year-old Mexican girl delivered an infant by Caesarean section after a 31-week pregnancy, The Huffington Post reports. SEE ALSO: Why Newt Scares Me The mother was admitted to Hospital de la Mujer in the city of Puebla, just 60 miles southeast of Mexico City, on Oct. 22, after “suffering from seizures and other medical […]

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Ramie Grimmer, the daughter of Rachelle Grimmer the woman who killed herself and shot her two children after being denied welfare at a benefits office in Laredo, Texas has died from her wounds. Before she died Ramie Grimmer posted “May Die 3day on her Facebook page. The New York Daily News reports: Her 10-year-old brother, […]

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SAN ANTONIO-Natalie Johnson was fired for refusing to let a transgender woman use the womans dressing room at a Macy’s in San Antonio. Johnson claimed that her religious beliefs conflict with Macy’s transgender policy and that she was protecting female customers. KENS5 reports: “They wanted me to believe that the young man I was looking […]

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A North Carolina school district forced a principal into retirement and issued an apology after 9-year-old Emanyea Lockett was suspended for calling his teacher “cute.” SEE ALSO: Hacker Steals A Half Million From Rich White Lady Alec Baldwin’s PERFECT Tracey Morgan Impression

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Four drunken Somali Muslim women caught on tape severely beating a white woman in the UK were not jailed because the judge heard they were “not used to being drunk” because they were Muslim, UK publication The Sun reports. Not only did the judge determine the attack was not racially motivated, he decided neither of […]

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[UPDATE] Rev Al Sharpton has gone on record to NewsOne.com to refute claims that boxing legend Muhammad Ali is seriously ill. Sharpton: ” I have spoken with Ali’s wife and she assures me that The Champ is fine. He is comfortable at home and they are preparing to celebrate his 70th birthday in January.” PHOENIX-Boxing […]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Affluent black Americans who are leaving industrial cities for the suburbs and the South are shifting traditional lines between rich and poor, according to new census data. Their migration is widening the income gap between whites and the inner-city blacks who remain behind, while making blacks less monolithic as a group and […]

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New Orleans is in the midst of a violent murder spree unlike anything the city has seen before or since Hurricane Katrina. SEE ALSO: Man Stabbed At Airport, Gets On Flight Anyway According to an excellent piece in today’s New York Times, New Orleans’ murder rate in 2010 was 10 times the national average, “long before […]