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NEW YORK (AP) — Kenneth Chenault, wearing no sport coat and no tie, with a large cup of tea in front of him, fits an image of a man ready for retirement. Chenault is days away from stepping down as the chief executive officer and chairman of American Express, the credit card giant and one […]
One Georgia Waffle House learned the hard way that they should maybe keep barbecue sauce in their restaurant from now on. The NY Post reports 43-year-old Willie Edward Drake was dinning at a Waffle House and went crazy when the restaurant didn’t have any barbecue sauce. When the workers told him that they didn’t have […]
In a “Stay Woke” kind of way, one Chicago kid has newfound fame after he corrected his teacher for ‘telling lies’ about who discovered America. The teacher espouses it was Christopher Columbus. The kid quotes his mom, (and Jay Z), who saya, “the only Christopher we acknowledge is Wallace.” Apparently little dude didn’t set out […]
The 2018 flu season is here and it’s not messing around one bit! According to officials, this year’s flu strain is already the most widespread on record since tracking began 13 years ago. It has already killed more children than in past years, and officials believe it could get worst. More than 30 people have […]
ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has halted the execution of an Alabama inmate whose attorneys argue that dementia has left the 67-year-old unable to remember killing a police officer three decades ago. Justices issued a stay Thursday night, the same evening that Vernon Madison was scheduled to receive a lethal injection at […]
Tyler Perry rained the blessings down on a Georgia church after their church van was stolen. WSB-TV Atlanta reports that the members of Lighthouse Community Church went to church Sunday, January 21 and found the van was gone. Nothing but glass from the van was left in the parking spot. Members were devastated because the 15 […]
The attorneys, Matthew Fletcher and Thaddeus Culpepper, were arrested Thursday by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies, sheriff’s department spokeswoman Nicole Nishida told The Associated Press. The warrants allege they were accessories after the fact to a crime, she said, without providing any additional details. Fletcher, 53, was arrested around 2 p.m. and was being booked […]
NEW YORK (AP) — NBC News anchor Lester Holt learned while going through customs in North Korea that his request to visit the heavily-fortified border with South Korea had been denied, and he was headed to a ski resort instead. His schedule was not his own, and Holt is only the latest journalist to learn […]
A man sprayed by harmful, “military-grade tear gas,” during a protest over the death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore has received $75,000 by a jury. The New York Daily News reports that 26-year-old Larry Lomax was protesting during a Freddie Gray protest in May of 2015 when police officers sprayed him with harmful chemicals. The […]