(WIDK by Cheyenne Pons) – Rumors sure can travel fast…and to the most unimaginable people.

Sources say that Michelle Obama, the first lady of the United States, has banned “Scandal” actress Kerry Washington from the White House for being “too flirty” with the President.
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(WIDK By Mike Finiello) - An unprecedented ivory poaching spike leaves behind a horrific trail of dead.

A massive slaughter in Cameroon, Central Africa – at least 200 elephants have been killed in a four week killing spree, some estimates fearing that over a thousand elephants may have been killed since January due to a surge in ivory poaching.
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(WIDK By Lukasz Bielawski) – China edited out a famous scene from Titanic because of unusual concerns.

A scene which exposes Kate Winslet’s breasts, was censored in China because government authorities feared that the audience “may reach out their hands for a touch”, because of the films new 3D effects.
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(WIDK By Nick Miller) - Torture or Therapy?

Doctors in Dedham, MA used a form of electro-shock “therapy ,” to help “treat,” disabled Andre McCollins, 18, inside his high school, shocking him over 31 times in the span of a few hours as punishment for laughing at his teachers.
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(WIDK by Nora Poggi) – Peruvian Miners were rescued after an explosion trapped them into an abandoned mine.

Nine Peruvian Miners spent six days trapped 650 feet below ground, in a copper mine abandoned since the 80s, after an explosion they started themselves turned bad, and got help through a hose set before the accident, making it out alive by walking through a tunnel built by rescuers.
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(WIDK By Bob Bachelder) - Baby tossing; sacred Indian ritual or inhumane, outdated practice?

A very old Indian ritual was conducted recently in Southern India, where high priests toss babies off a balcony over 30-feet-tall in order to bring infants good luck, health and prosperity.
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(WIDK By Olivia Roat) - A transgender beauty queen who was initially disqualified from a Canadian pageant has now been allowed to compete.

Jenna Talackova was told she would not be allowed to compete in the Ms. Universe Canada pageant because she was not a “naturally born female,” but earlier this week, reps for Donald Trump, who owns the Ms.Universe pageants, said Trump would reverse the decision.
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(WIDK by Colleen Bjornholm) - Woman has to make painful choice no woman should have to make.

A law in Nebraska prohibiting women from having abortions after 20 weeks if the mother’s life is not at stake, prompted Danielle Deaver, 34, who gave birth at 22 weeks only to watch her baby die 15 minutes later last December, to write a letter to Arizona Governor Janice Brewer, whose state is about to pass a 20 week ban law.
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(WIDK By Desiree Raucci) – A miraculous event took place in Cambodia earlier this week.

A 11-year-old member of the Wayuu Tribe, an indigenous group from the La Guajira Peninsula in the northern region of Colombia and Venezuela, gave birth to a girl earlier this week.
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(WIDK by Meggan Gittens) - A class photo is causing an uproar at a Florida elementary school.

The class photo, which has one African-American student’s face covered with a ‘brown smiley face’, has been described by one parent as ‘offensive’, ‘degrading’, and ‘humiliating’.
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(WIDK By AnnaMarie Houlis) - When rape occurs on college campuses, it is not funny; when “seven frat dwarves” rape “the fairest of them all,” does it then become a laughing matter?

Chelsea Diana, a sophomore journalism student at Boston University, and editor of the school’s independent student newspaper resigned on Tuesday after an April Fools’ edition, “The Disney Free Press,” featured a story mocking rape.
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(WIDK By AnnaMarie Houlis) – Racial discrimination is not as palpable as it once was, but it is still a nationally debated and perpetuating issue.

Authorities have finally agreed to convene a grand jury to determine if the police who killed 68-year-old former Marine and correction officer, Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., have committed a crime.
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(WIDK By Mike McCurdy) - A teacher at a catholic school was fired after she became pregnant through artificial insemination.

Christa Dias, 32, was fired from her position of technology coordinator at Holy Family and St. Lawrence Catholic schools because she became pregnant through artificial insemination, which the school believed did not agree with Catholic doctrine.
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(WIDK By Mike McCurdy) – A Pakistani boy, unable to afford a new school uniform, sets himself on fire.

Kamran Khan, 13, suffered burns over 65% of his body when he doused himself in gasoline and lit himself on fire in shame for not being able to afford a new school uniform.
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(WIDK By Nick Pollack) - One teacher has decided to stand up for herself and her privacy.

Kimberly Hester, a teacher’s aide at Frank Squires Elementary School in Cassopolis, Michigan, was recently suspended after she refused to allow the school district to view her Facebook profile.
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(WIDK by Colleen Bjornholm) – It just keeps getting easier and easier for stalkers these days.

A mobile app called ‘Girls Around Me’ in conjunction with the ‘Foursquare’ GPS tracking app allowed men to pinpoint women’s locations and then see their full name and photos on Facebook as well as send them messages.
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(WIDK By Lukasz Bielawski) – This isn’t one of those regular Bart Simpson blackboard punishments.

Irel Jones, 12, claims that his teacher at I.S. 399 in the Bronx, duct-taped him to a chair after he got up from his chair during an exam to complain about a classmate who was trying to get answers from him. Click to read more…
(WIDK By Mike McCurdy) – A natural gas leak off the Scottish Coast causes a two mile exclusion zone.

Total, a French gas company, has confirmed that a natural gas leak that could take up to six months to disperse has prompted a two mile exclusion zone for both land and sea travel due to the threat of explosion.
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