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A substitute teacher who was attacked by two students at a school in Charlotte, North Carolina, for at-risk students is done.

Two teenage girls attacked Renata Horton, who was subbing at Turning Point Academy, according to the Atlanta Black Star. Horton told WSOC TV that the girls, ages 16 and 17, attacked Horton after she asked them to remove their hoodies, which is against school policy.

“The BMT [behavior modification technician] jumps up in my face and says, ‘Hold up, Miss Horton … you know and everybody else knows that she walks around with her hoodie all the time,” Horton told WSOC TV. 

Horton said one of the girls suddenly charged Horton without warning while the other girl came from behind and pulled her to the ground.

“And when she knocked me down, that’s when the other one got her hands on me,” Horton said.  “And she jumped behind me and was choking me back here, pulling me on my neck, and pulling all my hair. And that’s when they started beating me.”

Eventually another BMT stopped the attack. Horton, who did receive medical treatment, said the school didn’t call for the paramedics or take her to a hospital. Horton’s daughter took her, and she’s forbidden the 57-year-old from returning.

“I’m hurt that I didn’t have hardly no support today, because I’ve been nothing but good to Turning Point,” she added “I don’t call out. I’m a sub and anytime them kids ask me for something to eat, I give it to them.”

Horton, who has taught at the school since 2022, said the school should close. She’s concerned a student will bring a gun to school. “They need help,” Horton told WSOC-TV. “They need more support, or the people who are at the schools that’s in these roles, they need better training.”

According to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, the students were charged with assault and disorderly conduct after they “got aggressive toward a teacher.”

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Rudy Gobert was upset after his Minnesota Timberwolves took an L against the Phoenix Suns Wednesday night, saying the NBA shows favoritism to certain teams, according to the (Minneapolis) StarTribune. 

“It’s not fair. It’s really not fair,” Gobert said. “Every night. I’ve been in this league for 10 years and I try to always give the benefit of the doubt, but it’s hard for me to think they’re not trying to help [the Suns] win tonight. It’s hard for me to think they didn’t try to help the Warriors win the other night or Sacramento Kings the other night. It’s just so obvious. As a basketball player that’s been in this league for so long, it’s disrespectful.”

The Suns had 27 free-throw attempts against Minnesota’s 12. Devin Booker had 29 points and went to the free-throw line 15 times. 

“We understand that we’re not the biggest of the markets and we’re a team that—I think you want to see KD [Kevin Durant] in the playoffs, Steph [Stephen Curry] in the playoffs, you want to see LeBron [James] in the playoffs,” Gobert said. “[The] Timberwolves are not there yet. We got to keep putting our head down, keep playing through that and it’s frustrating for sure, especially for me.”

“We work so hard to be in a position to compete with the best and we just get manipulated into those situations where it just impacts the game for the other team too much,” Gobert said. “We understand that it’s also a business. Unfortunately, it’s sad, but it’s good also. … We understand that we’re not the biggest of the markets and we’re a team that—I think you want to see KD in the playoffs, Steph [Curry] in the playoffs, you want to see LeBron [James] in the playoffs. The Timberwolves are not there yet. We got to keep putting our heads down, keep playing through that and it’s frustrating for sure, especially for me.” 

“It was a tough one, man,” Timberwolves guard Mike Conley said. “It’s hard to talk and breathe at the same time. But we’re a competitive group and we don’t use that as an excuse.”

The iconic TSR role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is now a live-action film, one delighting both audiences and critics. But forty years ago, D&D had its very first outside media adaptation, in the form of a popular CBS Saturday morning cartoon. The Dungeons & Dragons animated show featured a group of precocious teens from our world who get sucked into the magical realms of D&D through a theme park ride. Look, it was the ’80s. It was a weird time on Saturday Morning cartoons. But what would the animated D&D characters make of their modern, live-action successors? Watch the video down below to find out.

All the main characters from the cartoon in are in this video, observing Chris Pine and company on their adventures. There’s the wizard/guide known as the Dungeon Master, using his magic to conjure up our cinematic heroes. Right there with him are our teen heroes. There’s Hank the Ranger, Eric the Cavalier, Diana the Acrobat, Presto the Magician, Sheila the Thief, and Bobby the Barbarian. Of course, there was also Uni, their unicorn mascot. Every ’80s cartoon needed a cute animal sidekick, and the Dungeons & Dragons show was no different. At least Uni was cooler than Scrappy Doo.

As fans of Stranger Things are well aware, back in the ’80s there was a whole hysteria surrounding Dungeons & Dragons. Parents freaked out about kids playing D&D and “learning black magic.” The cartoon was a way of making D&D more palatable to parents who didn’t know an Owlbear from a Wookie. And because of it, we’re able to have a live-action D&D film today. Should Honor Among Thieves get a sequel, maybe they can give those cartoon kids a role. Although we’d actually be ok with it if it was just Uni the Unicorn who shows up.

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BGN interviews the cast and crew of the Prime Video series The Power.

Featured in the interviews are: Toni Collette (“Margot Cleary-Lopez”), John Leguizamo (“Rob Lopez”), Auli’i Cravalho (“Jos Cleary-Lopez”), Edwina Findley (“Helen”), Halle Bush (“Allie Montgomery”), Toheeb Jimoh (“Tunde Ojo”), Heather Agyepong (“Ndudi”), Ria Zmitrowicz (“Roxy Monke”), Eddie Marsan (“Bernie Monke”), Zrinka Cvitesic (“Tatiana Moskalev”), Raelle Tucker (Executive Producer / Showrunner), Jane Featherstone (Executive Producer), Naomi de Pear (Executive Producer), Naomi Alderman (Executive Producer & author of The Power novel) and Tim Bricknell (Co-Executive Producer).

The Power is an emotionally-driven global thriller, based on Naomi Alderman’s international award-winning novel. The Power is our world, but for one twist of nature. Suddenly, and without warning, teenage girls develop the power to electrocute people at will. The series features a cast of remarkable characters from London to Seattle, Nigeria to Eastern Europe, as the Power evolves from a tingle in teenagers’ collarbones to a complete reversal of the power balance of the world.

Interviewer: Jeandra LeBeauf

Video Editor: Jamie Broadnax

The Power is currently streaming on Prime Video.