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Attorneys for a mentally disabled South Carolina man have filed a lawsuit against his employers, claiming that the owner and a manager beat him, called him racial slurs and forced him to work long hours for little to no pay.

When President Barack Obama found a way to incorporate “folks wanna pop off” at an international press conference Monday to address people with misinformation, it was just the latest confirmation of something many of us have suspected for some time: that the president, fully secured in his second and last term in office, is not as affected by others’ opinions of him as he might have been before. Colloquially, this state of mind is also known as “giving no f--ks.”

The grieving sister of a North Carolina man who was fatally shot by sheriff's deputies on Sunday claims that her brother was "murdered," and that deputies should have gotten a search warrant before entering the man's Spring Lake trailer home, the Huffington Post reports. 

Of terrorism’s many destructive traits, none is more horrifying than its ability to unexpectedly snatch our normalcy from us. Recent attacks in Paris force us into somber, hug-your-loved-ones reflections: imagining the romantic, joyful energy of that city and its inhabitants suddenly shattered by the wholesale violence of others. That cruelty always unwraps the pure evil of such acts, since innocents have nothing to do with the political agendas of combatants. We’re saddened by the senseless loss of life in Paris... Читать дальше...

Baseball legend Willie Mays will receive the nation's highest civilian award—the Presidential Medal of Freedom—the White House announced in a statement Monday. The Hall of Fame center fielder, who spent the majority of his 22-year career with the New York and San Francisco Giants, is one of 17 honorees who will receive the award from President Barack Obama at a Nov. 24 ceremony. 

A touching photo of an elderly Georgia man showing a much younger man how to tie his tie is going viral after being shared on Facebook, 11 Alive reports. 

Members of an Orange County, Fla., Muslim family are shaken after their home was shot at following the terrorist attacks on Paris, prompting fears for their safety because of their religion, WFTV reports. 

The mayor of Minneapolis has called for a federal investigation into the fatal police shooting Sunday of a black man who witnesses say was handcuffed.

If I had moved to New York City last fall as intended, you would surely be referring to me in the past tense today.