This time, Gabriel Fernandez was not breathing.
The 8-year-old California boy had been on everyone’s radar: He went to school with bald spots and bruises, black eyes and split lips, according to court testimony. Once, he told his teacher that his mother had shot him with a BB gun.
Twice, he asked his teacher to call a social worker, saying, “Can you call that lady?”
The Los Angeles Times cited court testimony alleging that when authorities arrived that Wednesday in May 2013, at a home in Palmdale, outside Los Angeles, Pearl Fernandez told them her son had fallen while roughhousing with his siblings and struck his head on a dresser. Read More...
Sunday marks the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the first phase of the Iraq War that culminated in the fall of dictator Saddam Hussein and the demise of his autocratic, Sunni-dominated regime. George W. Bush’s administration claimed its primary rationale for the invasion was to dismantle Hussein’s supposed weapons of mass destruction — weapons he could have, in theory, passed to al-Qaeda-type terrorists. WMDs were never found, however, leaving Americans suspicious about the real motive for the war. Read More...
Donald Glover’s critically acclaimed FX show “Atlanta” has burnished an understated approach to comedy and social commentary. Music, an essential element for a show about two cousins working their way through Atlanta’s music scene, has been met with the same quiet consideration. The show’s soundtrack took a more obvious turn in the Season 1 finale Tuesday, but it couldn’t have been more perfect.
The last scene featured OutKast’s “Elevators (Me & You),” a classic track from the rap duo’s 1996 album “ATLiens. Read More...
