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A Ferguson court clerk fired over racist emails uncovered by the U.S. Justice Department after the police shooting death of Michael Brown has a new court job in another suburban St. Louis. Vinita Park Mayor James McGee told The Associated Press on Friday that Mary Ann Twitty was hired last month as a temporary, part-time court clerk in that 1,900-resident city, where roughly two-thirds of the residents are black. […] After her firing, Twitty told the AP that she shared the messages as funny items she didn’t consider offensive. To McGee, who is black, Twitty was worth forgiveness and a...

HARARE, Zimbabwe - U.S. diplomats and British colleagues were attacked as they tried to investigate political violence in Zimbabwe, American officials said Thursday. The U.S. ambassador reportedly blamed the incident on President Robert Mugabe's government. "Police put up a roadblock, stopped the vehicles, slashed the tires, reached in and grabbed telephones from my personnel, and the war veterans (Mugabe's supporters) threatened to burn the vehicles with my people inside unless they got out and accompanied police to a station nearby," Reuters quoted U.S. Ambassador James McGee as saying. McGee said he believes the orders of intimidation are "coming directly from...

Excerpt - President Robert Mugabe today accused the US ambassador to Zimbabwe of political interference and threatened to expel him from the southern African nation. "He says he fought in Vietnam, but fighting in Vietnam does not give him the right to interfere in our domestic affairs. I am just waiting to see if he makes one more step wrong. He will get out," Mugabe said in a campaign rally. "As tall as he is, if he continues to do that I will kick him out of the country." Mugabe also said the State Department's top diplomat for Africa, Jendayi...