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Updated Dec 24, 2020 Ohio Mayor Urges Firing Of Cop Who Fatally Shot Unarmed Black Man Andre Maurice Hill was the second Black man killed by law enforcement this month in the state capital of Columbus. A police officer has been relieved from duty after authorities in Columbus, Ohio, say he fatally shot an unarmed Black man, the second deadly police shooting of a Black man in the city this month. Officer Adam Coy was responding to a non-emergency call of someone repeatedly turning on and off th...

1 House, 5 Grocery Store Workers And A Very Long Year If you shop at Ralphs stores in San Diego, Raquel Salorio and her loved ones may be helping you get through the pandemic. By Dave Jamieson Updated Dec 23, 2020 Above: Ralphs employees Mike Kurtz, a meat manager (left); Joseph Salorio, a front-end manager; Raquel Salorio, a front-end manager; and Jack Dawe, a meat manager in the backyard of Joseph’s home in San Diego on Dec. 18. Credit: Ariana Drehsler for HuffPost As coronavirus cases ros...

Updated Dec 23, 2020 Our Health Care Heroes Are Getting Fed Up With Us Doctors, nurses and others risk their lives every day and wonder why its so important for everyone else to go to bars. Front-line health care workers see you. They see you traveling for big, indoor holiday gatherings. They see you packing into bars. They see your social media posts from house parties. They see you without a mask. And they know they’ll see some of you again soon, crammed into increasingly crowded hospitals ...

Updated Dec 24, 2020 Animal Rights Activist Punks Maria Bartiromo By Posing As Meat Company CEO The fake Smithfield boss told the Fox News host that factory farms are “petri dishes for new diseases.” Fox News host Maria Bartiromo was apparently out-foxed by an animal rights activist who posed as a meat company CEO. On Wednesday’s episode of “Mornings With Maria,” Bartiromo featured an interview she said was with Dennis Organ, the new CEO and president of pork industry giant Smithfiel...

Updated Dec 23, 2020 Virginia Judge Won’t Try Black Man In Courtroom With White Portraits Judge David Bernhard is concerned that the portraits might suggest the courtroom is "a place historically administered by whites for whites.” Matthew Barakat FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A Black defendant’s right to a fair trial would be harmed if the jury heard the case in a courtroom lined with portraits of white jurists, a northern Virginia judge has ruled. The upcoming trial of Terrance...

The yoga instructor reposted a screen shot of Schumer’s post and said she “literally had to have someone explain this joke to me.”  “Still don’t get it 100%,” Baldwin said on an Instagram story, adding that she’ll still like the post and “comment some emojis.” Baldwin then followed up on Tuesday by posting a nearly five-minute video taking aim at body-shamers who she said were trolling her on Schumer’s post.  “After many people reached out to me, I decided to respond to ...

Updated Dec 23, 2020 Willow Smith Reveals How She Copes With Extreme Anxiety The "Whip My Hair" singer also spoke of the shame, sadness and confusion she sometimes feels when shes upset. Willow Smith now knows exactly what to do when she’s facing down “extreme anxiety.”  The musician-actor daughter of Hollywood titans Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith spoke candidly about her coping mechanisms on the latest episode of Facebook Watch’s “Red Table Talk,” alongside her mother and her...

Updated Dec 22, 2020 The singer was the Country Music Association’s female vocalist of the year in 1988. Jonathan Landrum Jr. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Country singer K.T. Oslin, who hit it big with the 1987 hit “80′s Ladies” and won three Grammy awards, has died. She was 78. Oslin’s friend Robert K. Oermann said she died in suburban Nashville, Tennessee, on Monday morning. He learned of Oslin’s death from her aunt. The actual cause of death has not been released. Oe...

Updated Dec 22, 2020 Congress extended benefit availability, approved an extra $300 per week — and added some new rules. Lorna Morton expected the government to stop paying her unemployment benefits next week, but now that Congress has passed another pandemic relief bill, she should be able to receive them through March. Not knowing whether her benefits would continue, Morton said, “didn’t make me feel confident that I was going to be able to meet my obligations.” Morton, a pedicurist w...

Walmart Sued Over Role It Played In Opioid Crisis The Justice Department alleges the company unlawfully dispensed controlled substances through its pharmacies Michael Balsamo WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is suing Walmart, alleging the company unlawfully dispensed controlled substances through its pharmacies, helping to fuel the opioid crisis in America. The civil complaint being filed Tuesday points to the role Walmart’s pharmacies may have played in the crisis by filling opioid...