- The head of the Los Angeles
chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People (NAACP)
has resigned following the controversy regarding Clippers owner
Donald Sterling’s racist language and his proposed (second)
lifetime achievement award from the organization. - House Republicans will
convene a special committee to investigate the Obama
administration’s handling of the attacks on the American consulate
in Benghazi, Libya, says House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). House
Oversight Chariman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has subpoenaed Secretary
of State John Kerry to testify. - The family of the boy who nibbled his breakfast pastry into the
shape of a gun is
still fighting with his school a year later over their
disciplinary action against him. - Two Alaska State Troopers who appeared on a National Geographic
channel reality show have been
shot and killed after responding to a call in the small village
of Tanana. - The Prince George, Maryland, Police Department says it’s going
to
livetweet a prostitution sting. - The mayor of Seattle has announced a deal to raise the minimum
wage there to
$15 an hour, the highest in the nation.
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