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Smokey Robinson calls Jennifer Lopez Motown tribute complainers 'stupid'
Before they even hit the stage Sunday night at the Grammys for a tribute to Motown, Smokey Robinson was defending the selection of Jennifer Lopez.
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Harris takes on questions about her 'blackness'
Sen. Kamala Harris directly confronted critics Monday who have questioned her black heritage, her record incarcerating minorities as a prosecutor and her decision to marry a white man.
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Official discover underground pot-growing operation
An investigation by Yancey County authorities leads investigators to an elaborate hydroponic growing operation.
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An investigation by Yancey County authorities leads investigators to an elaborate hydroponic growing operation.
Published on February 11, 2019
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Harris says she has smoked pot and supports marijuana legalization
Sen. Kamala Harris, a former California attorney general, said Monday she has smoked marijuana and supports the legalization of the drug.
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Skyrocketing teen e-cig use erases recent declines in youth tobacco use
Public health experts are continuing to sound the alarm on the teen vaping epidemic, tying the 1.3 million increase in teen tobacco users from 2017 to 2018 directly to e-cigarettes. The rise has been so significant that it has wiped out any progress in declining youth tobacco use in recent years, according to a report published Monday.
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Nearly 1 in 7 US kids and teens has a mental health condition, and half go untreated, study says
Half of children with a mental health condition in the United States go without treatment, according to a study published Monday in the journal JAMA Pediatrics.
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FDA targets illegally marketed dietary supplements
The US Food and Drug Administration is taking new action against dietary supplements, sending warning letters to companies who claim, without proof, that their products can prevent or treat Alzheimer's, diabetes and cancer, the agency announced Monday.
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The Hidden History of Black Nationalist Women’s Political Activism
Black History Month is an opportunity to reflect on the historical contributions of black people in the United States. Too often, however, this history focuses on black men, sidelining black women and diminishing their contributions.
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Black Owned Businesses Continue to Bring Dignity to Death
There is one thing all people have in common. We all will be born and we will die. Death is such a delicate subject that families need someone to help them ease through the process of all the decision making that has to be done to plan out a proper burial. For many families in the Houston area, the ones that they often turn to are the folks at McCoy & Harrison Funeral Home and O.W. Wiley Mortuary.
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Kristoff St. John, Star of 'Young & the Restless,' Dead at 52
Actor Kristoff St. John, who played Neil Winters on the CBS daytime soap opera "The Young & the Restless," has died, according to his attorney Mark Geragos. He was 52. A cause of death has not been released.
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Gov. Northam Would Be Wise to Step Down
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has admitted that he blackened his face as part of a Michael Jackson costume for a dance party. He also initially admitted that he was one of the participants in a racist photo -- of one person dressed in full Klan regalia and another in blackface --that appeared on his 1984 yearbook page.
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Walmart's online mattress brand has a new retail strategy: Tiny homes
Walmart will start putting Allswell, its online mattress and bedding brand, in mini stores.
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Andy Cohen welcomes baby boy Benjamin Allen via surrogate
Andy Cohen is a dad. The host of Bravo's "Watch What Happens Live" posted on Instagram Monday night that his son, Benjamin Allen Cohen, was born via surrogate earlier in the day.
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Atlanta lawmaker calls for release of rapper 21 Savage from ICE custody
A Georgia lawmaker is urging federal officials to release rapper 21 Savage after Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials detained him in Atlanta this week.
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For decades he didn't give up trying to ID a boy and his killer. The obsession paid off just before this detective retired
For years Maj. Tim Horne had a box under his desk he'd bump his leg into almost every day.
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Maj. Tim Horne, an investigator in North Carolina, had to solve the mysterious killing of an unidentified 10-year-old boy. He worked the case for 20 …
Published on February 6, 2019
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R. Kelly announces overseas tour
Embattled singer R. Kelly announced new tour dates in a tweet Tuesday, but the tweet was later deleted.
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Over 109,000 people died from measles in 2017 — needlessly
A child was hospitalized in Brooklyn in the largest measles outbreak in New York state in decades. A 17-year-old died outside Paris, France. At least 12 children suffered the same fate in Brazil.
