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Hundreds of teenagers stormed the streets of downtown Chicago, smashing car windows, attacking bystanders and sending panicked tourists running from the sound of gunfire. "Where are their parents at, that's my question," a woman who identified as a Chicago native told Fox 32 as the unruly scene played out in Downtown Chicago Saturday night. Fox 32 cameras captured video of teenagers flooding the streets while police struggled to restore order to the area. Large groups of teens were seen blasting music from Bluetooth speakers and spilling in front of traffic, with some attempting to gain access to the city's Millennium...

Makurdi, Nigeria, Jan 20, 2023 / 18:15 pm At least 11 people, most of them Catholics, were killed Jan. 19 when alleged Fulani herdsmen attacked a village near a refugee camp in Nigeria’s Makurdi Diocese, a diocesan official has reported. In an interview with ACI Africa, CNA’s sister news partner, Father Moses Aondover Iorapuu, the diocese’s vicar general, recounted the “horrifying” persecution that Catholics were subjected to during the attack. “The images of the attack are horrifying, and I keep saying that not even ISIS is capable of such brutality,” he said. “After killing, these guys decapitated some and took...

Place to discuss riots, lootings, fires and gun shots tonight following the Rittenhouse verdict.

Jasmine Hartin, 32, who is married to the son of British billionaire Lord Michael Ashcroft, was taken into custody last Friday after Superintendent Henry Jemmott, 42, was shot behind the ear with his own revolver. Police believe the pair had been drinking and fooling around with Jemmott's service revolver when it accidentally fired, causing the 6ft officer to topple off a pier in the luxury coastal enclave of Ambergris Caye. Hartin told detectives she was giving the officer a massage moments before the freak accident, according to local news reports. Hartin was found at the scene by a security guard...

A Georgia couple was shocked and disgusted to find a racial slur scrawled on a valet ticket after a night out at a local restaurant. After Candea and Sam Aarons had dinner at the Spondivits restaurant in East Point, Ga., on New Year’s Day, they found that the valet tag still affixed to their key chain had the phrase “jungle fever” written on one side. The phrase is a racial slur for an interracial couple.

EAST POINT, Ga. — A Georgia couple says they're still in shock after they were the target of racism at a popular local restaurant. A U.S. Army sergeant major just back from Kuwait and his wife went to Spondivits in East Point on New Year's Day, but what they found on their key ring when they got home left them deeply hurt. "I shouldn't have to feel this way," said Candea Aarons. When Candea and her husband Sam got home they noticed the tag left by the man who they say valet parked their car, with the words "jungle fever,"...

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It doesn't take much when you're the U.S. secretary of state, you're a woman and you're single. Condoleezza Ms. Rice spent some time this week with Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay in his Nova Scotia riding. And there they were on the front page of the New York Times on Wednesday, clasping hands in greeting. The article, with the teaser headline “Dance of Diplomacy,” gently mocks the twitter of the gossip mill and “baseless speculation” about a blossoming romantic relationship. But the story took care to note that Mr. MacKay is “the closest thing to eye candy on the diplomatic...

As Former US President Bill Clinton makes his first visit the country, one man will be hoping for a man-to-man talk with him. Councillor Godwin Kipkemoi Chepkurgor, who wanted to marry Chelsea Clinton (below). Godwin Kipkemoi Chepkurgor, a nominated councillor in Nakuru, says he has some social business with Clinton that started in 2000, but of which the former American President has no clue. He seeks the former president’s only child’s hand in marriage. In 2000 when Chelsea, her father and mother, now Senator Hilary Rodham Clinton, visited East Africa, Chepkurgor, then a Fourth Year student at Moi University, tried...

This unbelievably intelligent woman needs to contact me.I realize I wear plaid....and she wears..well..other stuff, than plaid......she's a hottie!!!!...And I don't mean looks.(ok, she's easy on the eyes)...this is one smart hottie.

'He has to go,' Spike Lee said, [on ABC Television's Good Morning America program] and called Senator Trent Lott 'a card carrying member of the Klan..I know he has that hood in the closet somewhere..the hood and the robe.'Film Director Lee said that the African Americans in the Bush Administration, such as Secretary of State Colin Powell and NSA Advisor Condoleeza Rice, should take a stand against Lott.'Bush, Powell, Miss Rice, lets go,' he said.'You know, prominient African Americans in the Bush Administration, what's this, mum's the word? Bush got you in check, you can't speak out? Going to let...