Popular Newark Mayor Cory Booker told reporters this week that he has earned around $1 million dollars from various speaking engagement he has done around the country. He says he only does speaking engagements for mostly non-profit groups and educational programs. According to the New York Post, Booker has donated most of the money to […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Flyers reacted with shrugs but largely agreed with a new policy announced by the Transportation Security Administration that airline passengers will be able to carry small knives and previously forbidden sports equipment on planes. “It’s common sense,” said Pat O’Brien, who stood at Los Angeles International Airport after arriving from Durango, […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — No more chance sightings of first dog Bo? Citing the impact of new spending cuts on staffing, the U.S. Secret Service and the National Park Service announced that public tours of the White House will be canceled beginning Saturday. The cancellations come at the start of the spring tourist season, a popular […]

NFL Hall of Famer Deion Sanders and ex-wife Pilar Sanders are back in court again this week. A choked up Sanders explained to the court on Tuesday afternoon that his ex-wife Pilar started a family feud at his 2011 Hall of Fame induction, after she began fighting with his daughter from a previous marriage. The […]

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A remarkably public feud erupted Tuesday within the family of Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee Olympian charged with murdering his girlfriend, as the runner and his relatives distanced themselves from comments his father reportedly made about guns and crime in South Africa. South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress, also waded into […]

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — After pummeling the nation’s midsection with heavy snow, a late-winter storm was making its way Wednesday toward the nation’s capital, where residents braced for the possibility of snarled traffic and power outages. As the storm closed in, the federal government said its offices in the Washington, D.C., area would be closed […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Valerie Harper, who played Rhoda Morgenstern on television’s “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and its spinoff, “Rhoda,” has been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. People magazine reports on its website Wednesday that the 73-year-old actress received the news on Jan. 15. The report says she has as little as three months […]