Leave it to Sarah Palin to rally her Republican troops with a racial assault on President Barack Obama 12 days before Election Day. On Palin’s Facebook page Wednesday, she criticized the Obama administration for its handling of the Benghazi, Libya attack with a blog entitled: "Obama's Shuck and Jive Ends With Benghazi Lies." "Why the […]

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Nearly a decade after five teens wrongfully convicted in the infamous Central Park jogger rape case were finally released and vindicated, the NYPD is again prompting gasps of outrage over its handling of the case. Top city officials have now filed a subpoena demanding that famed independent filmmaker Ken Burns and his Florentine Production company […]

TV & Film

As promised, the reality show “The Houstons: On Our Own” is premiering on Lifetime Wednesday night (October 24)  at 9 p.m. ET. Pat Houston, Whitney’s’ sister-in-law and longtime manager, her husband Gary Houston, their 14-year-old daughter Rayah, Whitney’s mother Cissy, Whitney’s daughter Bobbi Kristina and her “stepbrother” Nick Gordon are the main characters in what […]

Food & Travel

BIMINI, THE BAHAMAS — In the mystical silence of the Bimini mangroves, a swampy cluster of thick trees, bushes and home to 100 species of fish and marine life, Martin Luther King III stood in the sacred place where his father, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., relaxed in a small wooden boat, rocked in the […]

Music

NEW YORK (AP) — Alicia Keys, after giving birth to her son two years ago, said she wanted to create tools for children. Now she's launching an app for kids. "The Journals of Mama Mae and LeeLee" is about a young New York City girl's relationship with her wise grandmother. Keys produced music for the […]

Entertainment News

Just a couple of months ago, Bobby Brown inserted himself into a treatment facility for alcoholism and it seemed like he was on the road to recovery. Well, it looks like the self-proclaimed "King of R&B" has taken a turn off that road. According to various reports, Brown was arrested early this morning for a […]

National News

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Republican Mitt Romney's campaign says he still supports Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock after Mourdock said "God intended" pregnancies that result from rape. The campaign has not asked Mourdock to pull a TV ad featuring Romney. Romney campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul said Wednesday that Romney disagrees with Mourdock's opposition to abortion […]

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HOUSTON (AP) — During often tearful testimony, the mothers of four children who died in a 2011 home day care fire in Houston recounted for jurors on Wednesday the despair and grief they felt in the wake of the deadly blaze. The parents testified during the first day of the felony murder trial of former […]

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock refused to apologize Wednesday for saying that rape resulting in pregnancy is "something God intended." State Republicans and a few congressional leaders defended Mourdock, whose prospects of winning the seat long held by the GOP are unclear. But with female voters critical in the tight presidential […]

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Instead of taking a fake sick day, a San Antonio woman chose to fake her kidnapping to skip work. Sheila Bailey Eubank is facing aggravated perjury charges after she claimed a man jumped in her car and held her at knifepoint. Police found the 48-year-old woman tied up with a rope in her car. Investigators […]

Pat Houston talks with the crew about “The Houstons: On Our Own” which premieres tonight on The Lifetime Channel.

Health & Wellness

CHICAGO (AP) — People who collapse from cardiac arrest in poor black neighborhoods are half as likely to get CPR from family members at home or bystanders on the street as those in better-off white neighborhoods, according to a study that found the reasons go beyond race. The findings suggest a big need for more […]