Новости за 20.11.2015

A Miami mother is looking for answers, and Miami-Dade police are looking for suspects, in the shooting death of a Miami teenager walking home from school, CBS Miami reports. 

I’ve just returned home from a 10-day trip to Brazil. It is worth the mandatory (and exhaustive) visa process to go. Brazil was glorious. It’s everything it looks like in the best photos, but 10 times better in person. The folks who are headed there for the Olympics next year are in for a treat.

Photos of Harvard Law School's black professors hanging up at the school were apparently targeted by an unidentified vandal early Thursday, and now the incident is being investigated as a hate crime, according to law-school Dean Martha Minow, WCVB reports. 

Donald Trump has gone on a hiring spree, tapping several individuals as he expands his campaign. 

This week's episode of Scandal brought us the end of Olitz, the beginning of Mellie as a national hero and a fresh start for Papa Pope. 

A Chicago judge has ordered police to release by Wednesday dash-cam video that reportedly shows the fatal October 2014 police shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, who was shot 16 times, the Huffington Post reports.

The midseason finale of How to Get Away With Murder answered some burning questions, not least of which was “Who shot Annalise?” But in typical ShondaLand style, more questions resulted as the body count increased. Who will get away with murder this time?

Police framed Donald Eugene Gates for the 1981 rape and murder of Catherine T. Schilling in Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C., and he was sentenced in 1982 to life in prison. In 2009, after Gates had spent 27 years behind bars for the crime, DNA evidence cleared him of the Georgetown University student's death. On Wednesday the District of Columbia agreed to pay Gates $16.65 million—$617,000 for every year he spent in prison.

Joseph Patterson will spend the rest of his life behind bars for the murder of Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson's 2-year-old son.

There really is no way to prepare for a baby. Not necessarily the baby itself, but the impending change to your life once you become a parent. It’s one of the few instances in life when you may think you know, but you truly have no idea. See, even though they know, show and care about what happens to you once you have a kid, the experience of being responsible for one for the rest of your life is probably the realest shock to life possible.

Dear Professor Gates:

It is apropos that the Charlotte Observer would publish Rosemary Plorin’s hysterical open letter to Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton a week after a threat of a boycott by the black football players at the University of Missouri led to university President Tim Wolfe stepping down. Because both instances—while separate in scale and seriousness—articulate how awkward and unwieldy America’s relationship with the black athlete happens to be.