Cleve R. Wootson Jr.
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Shooter called Georgia jogger a 'f---ing n-----' as he lay dying in the road, agent testified
A man who helped chase down Ahmaud Arbery, the jogger killed in Georgia earlier this year, said the shooter called Arbery a "f---ing n-----" as he lay dying in the road, a Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent testified Thursday. A Glynn County judge will determine if there's enough evidence for the state to proceed with the trial of Greg McMichael, 64, his 34-year-old son, Travis, and their… → Read More
Black Americans deeply pessimistic about country under president who more than 8 in 10 describe as 'a racist,' Post-Ipsos poll finds
President Donald Trump made a stark appeal to black Americans during the 2016 election when he asked, "What have you got to lose?" Three years later, black Americans have rendered their verdict on his presidency with a deeply pessimistic assessment of their place in the United States under a leader seen by an overwhelming majority as racist. The findings come from a Washington Post-Ipsos poll of… → Read More
Reliable Source: A bullied boy named Trump was an honored guest at the State of the Union
For Joshua Trump, the 11-year-old who shares a last name with a president whose approval ratings don't quite reach 40 percent, the past few years have been a nightmare. Other students bullied the preteen so much over his surname that he had to be home-schooled. His parents told reporters that Joshua was sad all the time, a story that found its way to the ears of the first family, who seated… → Read More
Stripper-turned-pharma exec gave a doctor a lap dance to get him to prescribe drugs, officials say
Physician Paul Madison is suspected of taking more than $70,000 in bribes from a drug company to churn out prescriptions for its highly addictive fentanyl spray. But on Tuesday, prosecutors wanted jurors to focus more on what, exactly, the pain management specialist was doing at "Chicago's sexiest nightclub" with an exotic dancer-turned-pharmaceutical executive named Sunrise wriggling around on… → Read More
GOP lawmaker's case for a border wall: At my house, they keep 'critters out'
The final moments of Rep. Adam Kinzinger's interview on MSNBC might not have been so jarring if he had not spent the preceding 10 minutes talking about the need for Republicans and Democrats to communicate better about the partial government shutdown and the fraught issue of immigration. "We're just not talking to each other and using the right language to say, 'We all mean well,' " he told… → Read More
Native American drummer speaks on the MAGA-hat wearing teens who surrounded him
The images in a series of videos that went viral on social media Saturday showed a tense scene near the Lincoln Memorial. In them, a Native American man steadily beats his drum at the tail end of Friday's Indigenous Peoples March while singing a song of unity for indigenous people to "be strong" in the face of the ravages of colonialism that now include police brutality, poor access to health… → Read More
'We had no idea she was pregnant': 911 call details woman giving birth in vegetative state
The unnamed nurse screamed into the phone at the 911 dispatcher: "The baby's turning blue! Baby's turning blue!" She urged the paramedics to come faster. "We're not prepared for this." In most cases, a patient going into labor at a health-care facility in a room full of nurses would be a stressful but manageable situation. But the 29-year-old new mother at the center of the crisis unfolding at… → Read More
Reliable Source: Piers Morgan says Piers Morgan should be Trump's new chief of staff
Piers Morgan has several quasi-plausible reasons why President Donald Trump should select him as his new chief of staff, but the first winner of "Celebrity Apprentice" concedes the top reason just might be simple presidential-level desperation: "Nobody else is exactly storming the ramparts of the White House demanding you hire them for the toughest job in world politics," the British television… → Read More
Dangerously overcrowded party boat sinks in Lake Victoria, killing 29 passengers
Music and booze-filled party cruises around Lake Victoria are a rite of passage of sorts for fun-seeking young Ugandans, but the one that pushed off into the waters Saturday night seemed doomed from the start. The rickety vessel had been in poor condition and had been docked for some time before people started piling on near Kampala, the Ugandan capital, authorities told the Associated Press.… → Read More
Avenatti law firm evicted after not paying more than $213,000 in back rent
Add this to Michael Avenatti's horrible, no good very bad week: An Orange County judge has rejected the lawyer's final appeal to block the eviction of a law practice carrying the possibly presidential aspirant's name from an ocean-view building in Newport Beach, California. → Read More
Oprah Winfrey on racist 'magical Negro' robo-call: 'Jesus don't like ugly'
Oprah Winfrey has responded to the racist robo-call that uses her name in a ploy against Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, a Democrat who is trying to become the state's first black female governor. As you might have guessed, she is not impressed. "I heard people making racist robo-calls in my name against Stacey Abrams, who I am 100 percent for in Georgia," Winfrey said in an… → Read More
North Carolina woman charged, then loses her job after video goes viral
The black women waiting for help from the American Automobile Association said they could smell the alcohol on the breath of Susan Westwood, the slurring, unsteady white woman who had approached them in a dark parking lot in Charlotte, North Carolina. But Westwood had no trouble conveying a racially-tinged message straight out of the Jim Crow era. She is white, she told the two black women, and… → Read More
Who is Cesar Altieri Sayoc? What we know about the suspected mail bomber arrested in Florida.
Next to the pro-Trump stickers plastered all over the white van that authorities believe belongs to Cesar Sayoc are the names and photos of dozens of prominent Democrats and media figures - former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, former first lady Michelle Obama, former attorneys general Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, filmmaker Michael Moore, "Meet the Press" host Chuck… → Read More
Activists to remind Texas about Trump's 'Lyin' Ted' Cruz tweets with mobile billboard
Deep in the heart of Texas, a billboard truck will soon hit the road with a curated list of President Donald Trump's tweets -- attacks on Sen. Ted Cruz, a former political foe. Trump popularized the term "Lyin' Ted" in 2016. But it's 2018 now, and Democratic voter mobilization and an unlikely challenger have mounted an improbable campaign for a reliably Republican seat. Trump said an October… → Read More
'We Negroes' robocall is an attempt to 'weaponize race' in Florida campaign, Gillum warns
An assertion Wednesday by a white Republican gubernatorial candidate that Florida voters can't afford to 'monkey this up' and vote for his black Democratic opponent, Andrew Gillum, was widely viewed as a 'dog whistle' to rally racists. If it was a dog-whistle - the GOP candidate denies any racial intent - a jungle music-scored robo-call that has circulated in Florida is more akin to a bullhorn.… → Read More
They raised $400,000 for a homeless man
The act of kindness seemed destined to pull Johnny Bobbitt from the depths of homelessness and drug abuse he struggled with on the day Kate McClure's car sputtered to a stop in front of him. She was a motorist on Interstate 95 in Philadelphia who found herself stuck on an off-ramp, scared and out of gas. He was a homeless veteran who told her to lock her doors, then spent his last $20 on that… → Read More
Mollie Tibbetts's suspected killer, in the U.S. illegally, told investigators about her final moments
For the past four years, Cristhian Rivera has spent his days caring for herds of meat and dairy cattle just outside Brooklyn, Iowa. On the evening of July 18, he told investigators, he spotted a young woman in workout clothes, jogging alone. Rivera, 24, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico who worked at Yarrabee Farms, drove past the woman several times, his Chevrolet Malibu going in and out of… → Read More
Woman says she fell off cruise ship, spent 10 hours in Adriatic Sea before she was rescued
A British woman on a cruise touring the Adriatic Sea fell into the water 60 miles off the coast of Croatia, apparently spending about 10 hours treading water before she was pulled into a rescue boat. The woman, who gave only her first name, Kay, spoke to reporters shortly after her rescue ship arrived at a Croatian dock. "I fell off the back of the Norwegian Star and I was in the water for 10… → Read More
'Not the enemy of the people': 70 news organizations will blast Trump's attack on the press
For most of the past 19 months, President Donald Trump's war of words with American news organizations has been more of a one-sided barrage - at least according to the Boston Globe's editorial board. Trump labeled the news media "the enemy of the American people." a month after taking the oath of office. In the year that followed, a CNN analysis concluded, he used the word "fake" - as in "fake… → Read More
Mount Everest is a 'fecal time bomb.' Here's one man's idea for handling 14 tons of human waste.
Every year, some 1,200 people make a mad dash for the summit of Mount Everest during the climbing season that begins in May - taking on the arduous, often congested route to the world's highest peak that most will not complete and some will not survive. Working against them: temperatures far below zero, altitude sickness with effects that range from disorientation to death, and the ever-present… → Read More