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During the Black Conservative Federation's annual gala in South Carolina, at which he received the "Champion of Black America" award, former US President Donald Trump declared US President Joe Biden "a very nasty and vicious racist," and claimed that Biden discriminates between Black and white people. "Joe Biden really has proven to be a very nasty and vicious racist. He's been a racist," Trump said. "Whether you like it or don't like it. I happen not to like it. Biden spent years palling around with notorious segregationist you know that." "I got indicted a second time and a third time...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — As he closes in on the Republican presidential nomination, former President Donald Trump made a highly unusual stop Saturday, hawking new Trump-branded sneakers at “Sneaker Con,” a gathering that bills itself as the “The Greatest Sneaker Show on Earth.” Trump was met with loud boos as well as cheers at the Philadelphia Convention Center as he introduced what he called the first official Trump footwear. The shoes, gold lame high tops with an American flag detail on the back, are being sold as “Never Surrender High-Tops” for $399 on a new website that also sells Trump-branded “Victory47”...

ifteen years ago today, an Iraqi journalist stood up in the middle of a press conference in Baghdad and shouted in Arabic, “This is a farewell kiss from the Iraqi people, you dog!” and then proceeded to hurl his shoes, one after the other, at then-President George W. Bush. The gesture by the journalist, Muntadhar al-Zaidi, had dire effects on his own life — a risk he was well aware of beforehand — but it lives on in the public imagination worldwide as perhaps the most effective individual protest against America’s bloody and ultimately disastrous invasion and occupation of Iraq....

A flight attendant who thwarted the British man who tried to detonate explosives in his shoe on a trans-Atlantic flight in 2001 says he has been pushing to move from his supermax prison back to his native England. Cristina Jones, 61, said she has been informed that 'shoe-bomber' Richard Reid has been trying to transfer from Colorado prison ADX Florence, also known as 'The Alcatraz of the Rockies', to a nicer confinement closer to home. 'I was contacted as they were notifying me he had made a petition to be transferred back to the UK,' Jones said. Reid is serving...

First lady Jill Biden needed some assistance from staff after the heel of her shoe became stuck in a crack in the pavement during a visit to Kansas City, Mo., Thursday. The moment occurred at the Charles Wheeler Downtown Airport, as the first lady was walking toward a group of officers with the Kansas City Police Department’s motorcycle unit to take pictures. As she reached the center, the heel of her leopard print pumps became stuck in the pavement.

Pure evil. Lil Nas X teams up with MSCHF to release a new athletic Nike shoe (Air Max 97 custom) dedicated to Satan complete with a pentagram and a drop of human blood in each shoe. The shoe also contains the numbers 666 and come in a limited edition of 666 pairs. Nike and rapper Lil Nas collaborated for the creation. Demons are real and they are around us. The Daily Caller reported: Rapper Lil Nas X unveiled a limited edition of “satan shoes” that contain human blood and are limited to 666 pairs. The “Old Town Road” singer is...

As college football limped toward the finish of its fraught 2020 regular season, it was fitting its final full-slate Saturday was saved by a guy throwing a shoe. And for a team with a leading Heisman Trophy contender in quarterback Kyle Trask, it was ironic the season's biggest throw came from cornerback Marco Wilson. It all was a perfect example of the universe's cyclical nature: the defending champs (what's left of them, anyway) pulling off the season's most stunning win. Little has made sense in this wild spin around the sun we call 2020, and so it was that LSU's...

Nike Nixes ‘Betsy Ross Flag’ Sneaker After Colin Kaepernick Intervenes. Kaepernick quit professional football with over $20 million in the bank (after winning only 3 games in 2 years). He turned down $14 million from the 49ers and instead has a $40 million contract with Nike. For someone who wears Fidel Castro tee shirts he is quite the capitalist! Nike is nixing plans to release a sneaker in celebration of July 4 after NFL star Colin Kaepernick spoke out against using the Revolutionary War era flag design. The company had planned to release the Air Max 1 USA for sale...

Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, November 11) — The anti-graft court ordered on Friday the arrest of Ilocos Norte Representative Imelda Marcos after it found her guilty for seven counts of graft. The 89-year-old Marcos was sentenced to imprisonment for a minimum of six years to a maximum of 11 years. The Sandiganbayan said the former first lady can have a provisional liberty if she posts a cash bond while appealing the conviction. Marcos, who is running for Ilocos Norte governor in the 2019 elections, was also perpetually disqualified from holding public office. But Ombudsman Prosecutor Rey Quilala said she can...

Nat Shilkret & The Victor Orchestra play "The Woman In The Shoe" on Victor 22337, recorded on February 6, 1930.

A federal judge on Thursday ordered a Phoenix woman accused of throwing a shoe at Hillary Rodham Clinton in Las Vegas to live with her mother in Arizona while she awaits sentencing for trespassing. Alison Michelle Ernst also was told not to have contact with any people or places protected by the Secret Service. Ernst, 36, has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor trespassing. A judge previously dismissed a misdemeanor violence charge.

A Phoenix woman accused of throwing a shoe at Hillary Rodham Clinton during a speech in Las Vegas remains in federal custody after pleading not guilty to two criminal charges. Alison Ernst, 36, entered the pleas to misdemeanor counts of trespassing and violence against a person during her arraignment late Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas. U.S. Magistrate Judge Cam Ferenbach then granted the government's request to keep Ernst in federal custody, saying she was a flight risk and danger to the community. Ferenbach raised concerns about Ernst's residency status and mental health condition.

The woman who fired a shoe at Hillary Clinton after slipping past security was upset when cops arrested her inside a Las Vegas casino, according to a police report. Alison Michelle Ernst, 36, of Phoenix, “appeared to be in an agitated state but aware of what she had just done,” said the report from a Las Vegas police detective. Ernst was charged with disorderly conduct in Thursday’s deja shoe incident, reminiscent of a similar footwear assault on President George W. Bush in Iraq. Raw: Shoe Thrown at Hillary Clinton During Speech A woman has been arrested by police in Las...

A woman throws a shoe at Hillary Clinton as the former US secretary of state delivers a speech at a hotel in Las Vegas on Wednesday. Clinton dodges the shoe and jokes about the incident with the audience. The shoe-thrower did not explain her actions and has been taken into custody

A woman was taken into custody after throwing what she described as a shoe at Hillary Clinton during a Las Vegas speech. The incident happened moments after Clinton took the stage Thursday at an Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries meeting at the Mandalay Bay hotel-casino. Clinton ducked but did not appear to be hit by the object, and then joked about it. "Is that somebody throwing something at me? Is that part of Cirque de Soleil?" Clinton quipped. She added: "My goodness, I didn't know that solid waste management was so controversial. Thank goodness she didn't play softball like I...

A man is dead and a woman is facing murder charges for a bizarre stabbing incident in Texas - the suspected murder weapon is a stiletto shoe. Police in Houston say the suspect, 44-year-old Ana Lilia Trujillo, used one of the pointy-heeled shoes to stab the 59-year-old victim in a high-rise luxury condominium building inhabited primarily by faculty and staff at the University of Houston. Authorities are yet to identify the victim, and it's unclear whether he worked at the University.

ATLANTIC CITY — At first, it seemed like a coincidence, the kind of thing that happens from time to time at a casino, where the same number or same sequence of cards happens twice in a row. But when the players at an April game of mini-baccarat at the Golden Nugget Atlantic City kept seeing the same sequence of cards dealt, over and over and over again, their eyes grew wide and their bets grew bigger, zooming from $10 a hand to $5,000. Forty-one consecutive winning hands later, the 14 players had racked up more than $1.5 million in winnings...

The Obama Record: After angry Egyptians pelted her motorcade with shoes, chanting "Leave!," Secretary of State Clinton insisted the U.S. wasn't there to take sides. Too late. 'I want to be clear that the United States is not in the business, in Egypt, of choosing winners and losers, even if we could, which of course we cannot," Hillary Clinton intoned earlier this week. Of course, the administration could, and it did, picking and even colluding with the Muslim Brotherhood. And one of its hard-liners, Mohammed Morsi, now sits in the presidential palace, where he refused to shake unveiled Clinton's hand....

This is 5 mins. You'll have to stay 'til the end to see what sets off the final 'last straw' before the brawl.

A 32-year old applicant, Ahmed Hassan, has been sentenced to one month imprisonment by an Abuja Senior Magistrates’ Court for wearing shoes into a mosque in Nyanya. The Senior Magistrate, Mrs. Nkwadimi Buba, however, gave Hassan an option of N2,000 fine... Nanpan said that the convict on November 25 trespassed into the mosque and lay down there with his shoes on, knowing that the act was un-Islamic. ... Comrade Isiak Buna said it is not permissible in Islam for someone to enter a mosque wearing a shoe