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Malcolm Shabazz, grandson of political activist Malcolm X, died in Mexico City after a violent dispute in a bar, Mexican authorities said Friday. He was 28.
City prosecutors are investigating the attack that sent Shabazz to a nearby hospital where he died Thursday of blunt-force trauma injuries. United States officials confirmed that Shabazz was killed in Mexico City.
Grandson of Malcolm X killed in Mexico City
Legion of Christ priest leaves priesthood to care for son
A prominent American priest of the Legion of Christ religious order has decided to leave the priesthood after admitting he fathered a child years ago.
The Legion said Saturday the Rev. Thomas Williams, a moral theologian, author, lecturer and television personality, had asked Pope Francis to be relieved of his celibacy and other priestly obligations. A friend, the Rev. John Connor, wrote in a Legion blog that Williams wanted to care for his son and the mother.
Chrysler recalls nearly 470,000 Jeep SUVs
The recall affects 2005 to 2010 Grand Cherokees and 2006 to 2010 Commanders. U.S. safety regulators say cracks in a circuit board can cause a faulty signal as the SUVs are being started. If the vehicles shift into neutral they can roll away.
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Blasts kill dozens in Turkish border town of Reyhanli
Car bombs have killed 40 people and injured 100 in the Turkish town of Reyhanli, near the Syrian border, Turkey's interior minister says.
Muammer Guler told Turkey's NTV that two bombs had gone off in the town near the town hall and post office. Video from the scene showed injured people being carried to safety in rubble-strewn streets, amid shattered buildings and twisted wrecks of cars.
Hewlett-Packard faces $1bn lawsuit from shareholders
Hewlett-Packard tried to pull out of its $11bn (£7bn) takeover of British software firm Autonomy before the deal closed, according to claims in a $1bn shareholder lawsuit brought against the US computer maker.
HP's chief executive Meg Whitman, her predecessor Léo Apotheker, the company's former chairman Ray Lane and Autonomy founder Mike Lynch are among eight defendants named in the class action suit, filed at California's San Francisco district court, which accuses those who oversaw the botched deal of conducting "cursory due diligence on a polluted and vastly overvalued asset".
A Real Bonehead: Dome-Skulled Dino Discovered
A newly discovered dome-headed, dog-size dinosaur suggests that small dinos were more diverse than paleontologists have realized.
The dinosaur, discovered in Alberta, Canada, is named Acrotholus audeti; Acrotholus means "high dome," as the new dinosaur was a pachycephalosaur, a group known for their thick, bony skulls. The new specimen is the oldest pachycephalosaur ever found in North America, and rivals the oldest specimen in the world, scientists report today (May 7) in the journal Nature Communications.
Liberal Groups Begin Facebook Ad Boycott Over Zuckerberg's Big Oil Lobbying
A bunch of liberal advocacy groups — including MoveOn.org, CREDO, Presente.org. Sierra Club, Democracy for America — have pulled their ads from Facebook in protest of the company's lobbying arm, FWD.us, which has also supported the building of a gas pipeline from Alaska to the lower 48 U.S.
The economic impact of the boycott will be negligible to Facebook. But that's not the point.
It's the third recent set of unintended political consequences that Facebook has stumbled over since it launched FWD.us, its lobbying arm.
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