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Wednesday, December 25, 2019

President Obama’s tweet prompts ‘Merry Christmas, Mr. President’ to trend on Twitter

President Barack Obama issued a holiday message on Twitter, showing former First Family’s Christmas tree, alongside the message, “From the Obama family to yours, Merry Christmas!”

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The 44th president of the United States received an outpouring of well-wishes from Twitter fans, who returned the sentiment and let him know that his leadership was missed. The virtual love for President Obama caused “Merry Christmas, Mr. President” to trend on Twitter on Christmas Eve, and most of Christmas Day.

Don’t spill your eggnog, but here is a sample of tweets from fans:

While celebrating the Obama family, some Twitter users seized the moment to poke fun at Donald Trump, who was impeached last week by the House of Representatives. Trump complained after a Christmas Eve talk to the troops that he was being treated unfairly by Democrats during the impeachment process. He added that Senate Republicans would conduct the impeachment trial “however they saw fit,” The New York Times reports.

On Christmas Eve, former First Lady Michelle Obama shared the family Christmas Card on Instagram, showing Barack and Michelle Obama with their daughters, Sasha and Malia. Also in the image were their two dogs, Sunny and Bo.

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Diahann Carroll's West Hollywood Condo on Market for $4.2 million

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Allee Willis, Songwriter of Earth, Wind and Fire’s "September," Has Died

Allee Willis, the prolific songwriter who penned Earth, Wind and Fire’s “September”, and the Broadway musical, The Color Purple, has died at age 72.

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Missouri brothers, ages 8, 7, drown in frozen pond after going on bike ride

The tragic deaths of two young brothers are “going to be hard to get over for a long time,” said Opal Kamper, a neighbor that often spoke to the boys who died over the weekend after drowning in a pond.

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Cleveland “C.J.” Hicks, 7, and Terrance Hicks, 8, went for a bike ride together on Sunday but when they didn’t return home when they were supposed to, family members went searching for them. That’s when the younger of the two siblings was found floating in a pond on private property in St. Clair, Mo. Divers found Terrance soon after, and both boys were pronounced dead later at the hospital, PEOPLE reports.

Sheriff Steven Pelton told CNN that one of the boys may have slipped into the water and the other attempted to rescue him.

“Ice is not safe until you have approximately 4- to 5-inch thick ice,” St. Clair Fire Protection District Chief Craig Sullivan told KWCH. He noted that the thickness of ice on ponds can be hard to determine as temperatures warm, “and with the weather temperatures we’ve been experiencing, we have not had a long stretch of extremely cold weather to thicken that ice,” he added.

“It’s just a shock to me, it’s going to be hard to get over for a long time,” said 93-year-old Kamper.

“They would stop by in the evenings and visit with me and I would always give them a hug and they would hug me,” she said. “I would always say ‘I love ya.’ I told them, ‘I love you,’ they knew I loved loved them.”

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The tragedy occurred just days ahead of Christmas.

“I had their Christmas gifts ready for them,” Kamper said. “And I thought, ‘Oh I won’t get to give it to them.'”

The Hicks family are reportedly in the process of setting up a GoFundMe page.

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Michael Bloomberg severs ties with firm that hired prison laborers to make campaign calls

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg says his presidential campaign has cut ties with a firm that used prisoners to make calls on the candidate’s behalf.

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Bloomberg said his campaign used a third-party vendor to contract a call center company named ProCom to conduct calls for his 2020 presidential run. But when a report by The Intercept noted that two of the company’s Oklahoma centers operate out of prisons, Bloomberg said his campaign immediately ended the arrangement, The Huffington Post reports.

“We do not support this practice and we are making sure our vendors more properly vet their subcontractors moving forward,” Bloomberg said in a statement he posted on Twitter.

He entered the 2020 Democratic race late in the game, on Nov. 24. A source told The Intercept that some of the female inmates at the women’s prison Dr. Eddie Warrior Correctional Center in Oklahoma have made calls for his campaign.

“The people were required to end their calls by disclosing that the calls were paid for by the Bloomberg campaign,” wrote reporter John Washington. “They did not disclose, however, that they were calling from behind bars.”

Bloomberg, founder and majority owner of Bloomberg LP (parent company of Bloomberg News), claims he knew nothing about prison laborers being used to make calls on his behalf.

As The Grio previously reported, soon after announcing his Democratic presidential run, Bloomberg apologized for his support of the “stop-and-frisk” strategy, employed by the New York Police Department while he was mayor.

READ MORE: Bloomberg: I ‘regret’ impact of police tactics on minorities

The targeted harassment of Black and Latino residents across the city was supported for a decade by Bloomberg.

In a speech, the first since expressing interest in taking over the white house, Bloomberg stated “I was wrong” and “I am sorry” and acknowledged that he “can’t change history.”

He apologized to those wrongly stopped as a part of the policing efforts.

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