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CINCINNATI (AP) — President Barack Obama, seeking to shore up support among women, intensified his pressure Thursday on Mitt Romney to break any ties with a Republican Senate candidate who said that if a woman becomes pregnant from rape it is "something God intended." Romney ignored the emotional social issue, holding to an optimistic campaign […]
The Republicans are so desperate to win that even staunch conservatives and Tea Party members who railed against any modification in avoiding budget cuts, who are calling for stringent measures, including eliminating entitlement programs, have largely kept silent. They are gambling that the real Mitt Romney is the one who fought to prove his conservative […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A city police officer dreamed up plots to kidnap, torture, cook and eat at least 100 women whose photos, names and addresses he pulled from a confidential law enforcement database, authorities said Thursday. Gilbert Valle's fantasies about cannibalizing women — in one, he said he hoped to "cook her over low […]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Authorities in east Mississippi run a "school-to-prison pipeline" that locks up students for infractions like flatulence or wearing the wrong color socks. The U.S. Justice Department said the policy mainly affects black and disabled children in a federal lawsuit on Wednesday. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Jackson said […]
Amidst the pumpkin, superhero, and princess costumes, Halloween can become an aid for ignorance to emerge its ugly head through racially-offensive costumes. Some people choose to reinforce cultural stereotypes by portraying a sombrero wearing, fast-speaking illegal alien, a sexualized Geisha, or purchasing dread wigs and other ethnic type extensions to mock black culture. Last year, […]
Two virgins auctioned off their virtue for cash online. For several weeks Catarina Miglorini accepted bids for her virginity in the efforts of donating to charity. The Brazilian’s lucky winner was a Japanese man named Natsu who cashed out $780,000 for the 20-year-old’s virginity. During the final days of bidding, the estimates jumped to $190,000 […]
The one-time GOP presidential contender Herman Cain is about to blow up and not in a good way. It seems that his former side chick Ginger White is going the Rielle Hunter route by writing a juicy tell-all about her fling with the conservative pizza meister, reports The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. When Cain was campaigning on […]
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Utilities and governments along the East Coast are working to head off long-term power failures as forecasters predict a major storm to hit a region already skittish after foul weather in recent months that plunged residents into darkness for weeks. Power companies from the Southeast to New England are telling independent […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, a longtime Republican, is sticking with President Barack Obama in this year's election. He tells "CBS This Morning" he respects Mitt Romney but thinks he's been vague on many issues. Speaking of Obama, Powell said the president got the United States out of Iraq and has […]
President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney faced each other for a second time this week as they shared the stage at the annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner in New York Thursday and, basically, went in on each other – as is the event’s tradition. They also got a chance to poke fun at themselves. […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump has a deal for President Barack Obama — if he releases his college and passport records, the New York real estate mogul will contribute $5 million to a charity of Obama's choice. Trump made the announcement Wednesday in a video posted to his Twitter account. He called Obama "the […]
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 […]
