Maxine Waters to Sessions: 'Time to go back to the plantation'

Rep. Maxine Waters BKA Auntie Maxine, slammed United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Friday, telling him to "go back to the plantation" after he said did not recall hearing if members of the Trump campaign were in contact with the Russians.

Read Waters tweet below:

Sessions doesn't remember what he said, when he said it, & where he was when he said it. Don't blame him. Time to go back to the plantation.

— Maxine Waters (@RepMaxineWaters) November 3, 2017

6 Florida firefighters fired for noose hung on black colleague's photo

Six firefighters who worked at Station 12 in Miami have been fired and five more face demotions or discipline after racist and sexually harassing behavior targeted a black colleague.

The city said the firefighters left a hangman’s noose on a photo of fellow first responder, who is a 17-year veteran. Watch more on this story below:

FDNY veteran Tonya Boyd will become department's first black female deputy chief

An EMS captain with 21 years on the job will become the first African-American woman in the FDNY to achieve the rank of deputy chief on Thursday.

Capt. Tonya Boyd, who joined the FDNY’s Emergency Medical Services while in college as a way to make money, said she never dreamed her career would reach such heights.

“I’m so excited and I am so blessed,” the EMS officer told the New York Daily News.

“After hearing about the promotion, I couldn’t believe it. I feel like I’ve knocked down a door and opened it for a lot of EMTs just starting on this job,” said Boyd.

“African-American women will see someone who looks like them as a deputy chief and they will know more is possible — their careers won’t top out at paramedic or even lieutenant,” said the captain of Station 39 in Brooklyn.

Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro said Boyd’s success was due to her efforts.

“Tonya is not only helping to raise the bar for our ability to provide pre-hospital care, she's also demonstrating to young women of all backgrounds the incredible rewarding career they can achieve in the FDNY,” Nigro said.

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Dominique Brooks is missing!

Dominique Brooks of Joliet, Illinois is missing.

She is about 5-foot-6 and was wearing a blue-and-white coat with long sleeves that had a skull on it, maroon skinny jeans and red-and-white Nike shoes.

The Joliet Police Department Investigations unit said there were no leads on the case as of Monday afternoon.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Joliet Police Department Investigations at 815-724-3020.

Gen. Kelly says he'll 'never' apologize for comments about Rep. Frederica Wilson

White House chief of staff John Kelly says he will "absolutely not" apologize for his comments on Rep. Frederica Wilson, adding that he stands by his comments.

When defending Trump in the wake of the feud, Kelly claimed Wilson had boasted of securing "$20 million" in federal funding to build a new FBI field office in Miami during the dedication ceremony for the building in 2015. He also called the congresswoman an empty barrel, saying her remarks focused more on her own actions than the heroism of the two FBI agents for whom the new building had been named.

But a Sun Sentinel video of the building dedication ceremony confirmed that she had not taken credit for the building's funding.

Asked Monday if he felt like he needed to apologize for his comments about Wilson, Kelly said, "Oh, no. No. Never. Well, I'll apologize if I need to. But for something like that, absolutely not. I stand by my comments."

Wilson tweeted Tuesday that she stands by her call for Kelly to apologize to her.

"I stand by what I said. John Kelly owes the nation an apology because when he lied about me, he lied to the American public," she said.

The call in question was to the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson, who was one of four soldiers killed during an ambush in Niger.

"As far as the young widow goes -- she has every right to say what she wants to say," Kelly said, according to a transcript of an interview on Fox News' "The Ingraham Angle."

Kelly said he felt Wilson's retelling contributed to "the politicization of something that was so from the heart." Kelly said he was "brokenhearted" by the congresswoman's criticism, and said he had given the President some guidance on consoling the families.

[SOURCE: CNN]