Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Senator Tommy Norment was managing editor of a yearbook that contained blackface and racial slurs Virginia Republicans claimed the moral high ground this week as a blackface scandal left the state’s Democratic leadership on the brink of implosion. But now a racist yearbook has come back to haunt a […]
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring has acknowledged wearing “brown makeup” to a party, days after the state governor admitting wearing blackface. The second-in-line to the governor’s seat said in a statement on Wednesday that he wore a costume to a party when he was […]
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Mrs McCain, right, with her family at a 2010 Republican event Cindy McCain, the widow of former US Senator John McCain, has apologised after police disputed her claim that she stopped a human trafficking case. Mrs McCain told KTAR radio she thwarted a crime by alerting Phoenix airport police […]
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Jill Abramson has promised to review some passages of her book Merchants of Truth. Former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson has responded to claims that parts of her book are plagiarised. The allegation about Merchants of Truth, which was released on Tuesday, was made by Vice News […]
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption What would your cockroach be called? A zoo in the US state of Texas is celebrating Valentine’s Day by inviting visitors to name cockroaches after their ex-partners. In an event called Quit Bugging Me!!!, keepers at El Paso Zoo will feed the insects to hungry meerkats. They will also […]
Image copyright Alabama Dept of Corrections via AFP A federal appeals court has blocked the execution of a Muslim inmate in Alabama after the state refused to allow his imam to be present at his death. Domineque Ray, convicted of murdering a 15-year-old girl in 1995, was scheduled for execution on Thursday. But his lawyers […]
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring has acknowledged wearing “brown makeup” to a party, days after the state governor admitting wearing blackface. The second-in-line to the governor’s seat said in a statement on Wednesday that he wore a costume to a party when he was […]
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring has acknowledged wearing “brown makeup” to a party, days after the state governor admitting wearing blackface. The second-in-line to the governor’s seat said in a statement on Wednesday that he wore a costume to a party when he was […]
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring has acknowledged wearing “brown makeup” to a party, days after the state governor admitting wearing blackface. The second-in-line to the governor’s seat said in a statement on Wednesday that he wore a costume to a party when he was […]
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring has acknowledged wearing “brown makeup” to a party, days after the state governor admitting wearing blackface. The second-in-line to the governor’s seat said in a statement on Wednesday that he wore a costume to a party when he was […]
