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Devin Washington, 18, sure knows how to impress potential employers.

The high school football player leaped into action after witnessing an attempted robbery while sitting for a job interview at the fast food chain, Raw Story reports. 

According to the report, a man reached into the restaurant's cash register, grabbed some money and attempted to run away, leaving the restaurant in chaos. The manager went to block the thief's exit and that's when Washington moved, holding the robber's... Читать дальше...

A Chicago man was sentenced to 100 years in prison on Monday for providing his 14-year-old niece with the weapon she allegedly used to kill another 14-year-old girl after a Facebook dispute over a boy, the Chicago Tribune reports. 

Do you remember a few months ago when people were unfriending folks left and right because they found out their friends were Donald Trump supporters or über-conservative or even sometimes closet racists? Yeah, that never happened to me. In fact, I’ve only had to side-eye a few people because of their pseudo-support for Bill Cosby, but never to the point of unfriending people for their racist views.

The first family's elder daughter, Malia Obama, seems to be enjoying her time in Cuba, although apparently she's still studying very hard ... with her Spanish, at the very least. 

It’s no secret that former President Bill Clinton and President Barack Obama are more “frenemies” than political friends. Bill Clinton was his wife Hillary Clinton’s biggest attack dog in the 2008 Democratic presidential campaign, and both publicly and privately suggested that then-Sen. Obama wasn’t up to being commander in chief. Hillary Clinton and Obama have since buried the hatchet, but there have always been two Bill Clintons when it comes to his dealings with the president.

A Texas community is mourning the loss of three Houston teens who died in a weekend crash that authorities say was caused by distracted driving due to use of a cell phone, KHOU reports. 

Rob Ford, the former Toronto mayor who made international news for his scandal-filled term, which included cellphone video showing him smoking crack, is dead at age 46.

I think it’s fair to say that my appreciation for consumption of entertainment of the avian element is quite well documented. My favorite celebrity couple is Cam’ron and Juju. Close second? Remy and Papoose. I have been known to hit the chicken head and the toe wop in the club in this year of our lord, 2016. I send semimonthly requests to Spotify to make “Suck It or Not” available to stream. When I ultimately meet my maker, I plan to request that my friends and family Milly Rock to “Melodies From Heaven” mixed over “Crush on You” at my wake.

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Updated Tuesday, March 22, 11:45 a.m. EST: BBC News is reporting that the death toll in the coordinated attacks in Brussels has risen to at least 31, with 11 people killed at Brussels Airport and 20 killed at the Maelbeek metro station.

Isaiah Tate, 5, is disabled, nonverbal and uses a wheelchair. His mother, April Tate, told WSB-TV that one of the things her son enjoys most is watching other children jump and run in the play area of the Mall of Georgia.

Davorius Gray, 11, was found dead in his South Carolina home last week after playing a popular online stunt called pass-out challenge and now his mother is warning parents to monitor their children's online activity.

On his first day in Cuba, President Obama walked to the center of the Plaza de Armas in the colonial section of Havana to view the imposing marble statue of Carlos Manuel de Cespedes – the George Washington of Cuba’s 19-century independence movement.
Before he leaves, Obama also should visit a memorial to Antonio Maceo.
In 1868 – three years after slavery ended in the United States – Cespedes, a white plantation owner, freed his slaves and urged them to join the revolution he led against Spanish rule of Cuba. Читать дальше...

If you’re a fan of The Real Housewives of Atlanta, you know those sassy ladies love to break up and make up. But at least they do it in style, and often while vacationing in the lap of luxury. For spring travel inspiration, we’ve highlighted six of the Peach State divas’ juiciest and most tweetable moments that happened in fabulous destinations we’d love to visit.

When we think about history, we find that there are defining moments we can embrace in every era. Art happens to be one endeavor that consistently informs us about the history and culture of past societies. Whether it is a performance, literary or visual, art is significant. For this very reason, it is the mission of the Agora Culture, which I founded in 2013, to make people more aware of art’s importance.

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You’ve all heard of the saying, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” It’s a phrase used to acknowledge the impact that a still image has in imparting meaning to its viewer. The English origin of the idiom is supposedly a modern invention stemming from various newspapers in the early 1910s, but the idea that images can illicit a visceral reaction is as old as time.