Here’s how Venus Williams plans to save Nina Simone’s home
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Here’s how Venus Williams plans to save Nina Simone’s home

ByNews Polite

Tennis superstar Venus Williams has teamed up with conceptual artist Adam Pendleton to preserve the house where the late singer Nina Simone grew up. In collaboration with the National Trust’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, Williams is raising money to renovate the North Carolina property. The fundraising endeavor will…

Marine Christian Mark McGill charged in baby’s death
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Marine Christian Mark McGill charged in baby’s death

ByNews Polite

A Jacksonville, NC, Marine has been charged in the death of his four-month-old baby, according to police. Officers arrested Christian Mark McGill after responding to a call for someone who had trouble breathing, local news outlet WITN reported. First responders tried to revive the unconscious infant, who paramedics declared dead…

Biden tells boy to ‘go steal a pumpkin’ during ‘boring’ speech
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Biden tells boy to ‘go steal a pumpkin’ during ‘boring’ speech

ByNews Polite

President Biden on Monday told a boy that he could “go steal a pumpkin” to avoid his “boring” speech about Thanksgiving to Marine Corps members in North Carolina. Biden, 80, made the surprising stab at humor when he approached the eldest of four children whose Marine Corps mother had just…