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Speaker of Parliament, Halimah Yacob, is thinking of running for president.

This has caused quite a stir in the ongoing presidential race, ahead of the September election.

Some analysts quickly proclaimed her the strongest candidate in the field.

But while they may be unanimous in their support of a potential Halimah Yacob run (save for one), there has been a little feud brewing online for nearly a week now.

It started on July 12 on Wikipedia, with this edit:

Race.

This was what was there prior to this change:

No race.

Lets call the group of people who edited this, Team Edit.

Cool.

Now, everything was hunky dory, with a few edits here and there, till July 16.

Which is the date Halimah Yacob was quoted in the press as saying she was giving serious thought to running for President.

For some reason, this lead to a re-edit of her Wikipedia page.

For reference, here are the edits that were made to the entry during the initial July 13 edit:

And they were swiftly changed back to this:

Which had been the category pre-2017.

Well call the group of people wanting to revert the article back to what is was Team Stay.

Over right?

Not quite.

Since July 16, more than 30 edits have been made on the article, and their talk page.

Most of it having to do with those two categorisations.

Team Edit argues that Halimah was indeed of Indian descent, owing to her Indian-Muslim father, who had unfortunately passed away when she was young.

Team Stay insisted that that claim was spurious, and that there were no credible sources backing the claim.

These two screenshots are a nice summation of their argument

Team Edit

Team Stay

Here are the some of the sources that Team Edit had put forth, both in the Wikipedia page, as well as the talk page.

However, members of Team Stay insisted that these were not enough, or credible.

And now, the Wikipedia entry appears to have been locked.

And it appears Team Stay hastriumphed:

Aftermath

Now we might just be a small online news site from Singapore, and Wikipedia is a goliath of information.

But it appears to us that Madam Speaker could very well be both an Indian and Malay.

And you could just edit the entry to look like this:

Oh well.

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The Rev. Al Sharpton is coming back to Macon The Telegraph Sharpton is scheduled to speak at the annual National Action Network Middle Georgia Conference at 6 p.m. Aug. 3. The conference theme this year is Everything is at Stake. The event will be held in Macedonia Church, at 600 Eisenhower Pkwy. Sharpton is ... Rev. Al Sharpton speaking at conference in Macon41 NBC News all 2 news articles »

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WMAZ 10:27 PM. EDT July 19, 2017

Reverend Al Sharpton will be in Macon for three events over three days.

He will be a guest speaker at the annual National Action Network Middle Georgia Conference from August 3-5, according to a news release.

On Thursday, August 3, Sharpton will appear at Macedonia Church located at 600 Eisenhower Parkway at 6 p.m.

On Friday, August 4, he will speak at Union Missionary Baptist Church at 1127 Kitchens Street starting at 10 a.m., which will be followed by a Faith Leaders Luncheon at noon. At 6 p.m., Sharpton will also attend the NAN Awards Dinner. The group asks attendees for a donation of $25 for both the luncheon and the dinner.

Sharpton will also speak on Saturday, August 5 at the Youth Hack-a-thon at the Macon-Bibb Government Center and Rosa Parks Square at 700 Poplar Street. The event starts at 3 p.m.

For more information, you can call 478-257-6842 or 478-336-3700.

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The Ellis County Sheriffs Office received a call around 4:30 p.m. Saturday, from a resident who believed that they had discovered human remains while hunting near Section House Road, north of Alma. They are investigating it as a homicide.

The Ellis County Sheriffs Office received a call around 4:30 p.m. Saturday, from a resident who believed that they had discovered human remains while hunting near Section House Road, north of Alma. They are investigating it as a homicide.

Ellis County Sheriffs deputies responded to the location, which is a non-addressed parcel of agricultural land planted with crops and a small wooded area.

The responding deputies confirmed the remains to be human shortly after arrival. The deputies then contacted the Ellis County Sheriffs Office Criminal Investigative Division who came along with a crime scene investigator to the location.

The investigators determined that the remains had been scattered over a large area. The Ellis County Sheriffs Office requested the assistance of the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification.

The crime scene investigation began at around 6:30 a.m. on Sunday, which consisted of Sheriffs Office Investigators, Texas DPS aircraft and staff from the UNT Center for Human Identification.

The unidentified human remains will be transferred to the UNT Center for Human Identification.

The Ellis County Criminal Investigations Division is asking for help from the public to identify the human remains found near Alma by hunters on Saturday, July 15. The skeletal remains were scattered over a large area of agricultural land near Section House Road north of Alma. The remains were collected and transferred for positive identification.

Anthropologists from the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification have determined the remains are of female gender and African-American descent. The female is described as approximately 16 to 22 years of age. She is medium muscular build and medium-framed. She is 5 feet 6 inches tall to 6 feet. She was discovered wearing a Pilot Point "Bearcat Pride" T-shirt.

Investigators ask for anyone with information to please call Criminal Investigations Sgt. Joe M. Fitzgerald of Ellis County at 972-825-4928.

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It's the summer travel season, and many of us have encountered challenges and frustrations during our travels - but few of us have the ability to tweet those frustrations out to 1.9 million Twitter followers. When Ann Coulter's specially-selected, pre-booked seat was changed on her Delta flight from New York City to Florida Saturday, she let loose on the airline and its employees, and even tweeted a picture of the woman to whom her seat was given.

Predictably, Coulter's fans lined up behind her and her critics defended and even praised Delta. After nearly a day, Delta replied and took her to task on Twitter.

Here's the controversy in a nutshell. Coulter claims that she pre-booked a specific seat and paid a premium ($30) for extra legroom. Once she had boarded and was in the seat, a flight attendant approached and "ordered" her to take a different seat, "without explanation, compensation, or apology." Coulter immediately started creatively tweeting her complaints.

By Sunday it was reported that Coulter's new seat was in the same row, but across the aisle, and offered the same extra leg room benefit she had paid for. At least one outlet reported that Coulter was asked to move so a female passenger could sit in the same row with her family.

UPDATE: The Washington Post reported Monday morning that in an email to them a Delta spokesman said, It appears her new seat was in the same row, just not the exact seat she had selected. It was an exit row seat (has extra leg room). She was moved from an aisle to a window. Same space, a few seats over.

However, a source close to Coulter tells me that it did not have extra leg room and was not an aisle seat. The source could not confirm if it was a window or a middle seat. The source added that Coulter was never given an explanation by Delta at the time or since as to why they would need to move her.

Coulter still wasn't having it.

Delta's social media team hit back Sunday afternoon with a pair of tweets.

Coulter is continuing to respond on Twitter and demanding an explanation from corporate. Tens of thousands of people are replying to both sides' tweets, each excoriating and demeaning the other side.

Unless there is more to the story than is currently reported, both sides could have definitely handled it better. If Delta had approached Coulter and said, "This young woman would like to sit with her family, and three seats weren't available together - do you mind moving?" perhaps Coulter would have willingly done so. And perhaps Coulter could have realized that moving over three seats for a short-haul flight isn't that big of a deal, and if she wanted more pampering she could have flown first class.

But neither did. And the ravenous hyenas on social media have taken that red meat and torn into it.

UPDATE: The additional information looks worse for Delta. The airline shouldn't be talking about details of her individual case to the media but not to Coulter. No matter your feelings on Coulter's politics, if you were in her shoes you would not want a company doing that to you. Some criticize Coulter's continued flame tweets at the company, but - they're effective. Behemoth companies believe they can treat customers any way they want to these days because essentially there's no recourse. And, I'm reminded of the words of Evan Sayet's column - She Fights.

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