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The Secret Service prostitution scandal grew Monday to include a 12th member of the U.S. military as the Pentagon suspended the security clearances of all the military personnel who have been implicated. The Secret Service has also taken action against 12 of its employees. Three Defense Department officials said the 12th military person involved was […]
Fisk University may soon be able to generate cash from its 101-piece art collection donated by the late painter Georgia O’Keeffe. On Monday, the Tennessee Supreme Court announced that it would let stand a ruling allowing the historically black university to complete a $30 million deal to sell a 50 percent stake in the collection […]
A county detective says a man serving six months in a southwestern Pennsylvania county jail illegally hid a cellphone and charger in his prosthetic leg. Twenty-seven-year-old Christopher Greer, of Uniontown, faces a preliminary hearing May 22 on a contraband charge filed last week by a Fayette County detective. The detective says the phone was found […]
Sarah Jessica Parker, Kerry Washington and Forest Whitaker are adopting some of the nation’s worst-performing schools and pledged Monday to help the Obama administration turn them around by integrating arts education. The President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities announced a new Turnaround Arts initiative as a pilot project for eight schools with officials […]
Sean Penn no longer lives in a tent, surrounded by some 40,000 desperate people camped on a muddy golf course. And he no longer rushes about the capital with a Glock pistol tucked in his waistband, hefting bags of donated rice and warning darkly of a worsening humanitarian crisis. But the actor who stormed onto […]
Parents of a class of kindergarten students at a suburban Chicago grade school are demanding answers after a recent field trip many of them signed off on where youngsters were expected to visit the town Village Hall and city library ended up with some of the kids inexplicably being locked away behind bars. Sunnyside Elementary […]
A top lawmaker briefed on the investigation into a Secret Service prostitution scandal said more firings could be imminent following the ouster of three agency employees. “I wouldn’t be surprised if you saw more dismissals and more being forced out sooner rather than later,” Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., said Thursday. King is being updated on […]
Rocker and gun rights champion Ted Nugent says he will meet with the Secret Service on Thursday to explain his raucous remarks about what he called Barack Obama’s “evil, America-hating administration” — comments some critics interpreted as a threat against the president. “The conclusion will be obvious that I threatened no one,” Nugent told radio […]
“The leading cause of death among black males between the ages of 15 and 24 is homicide. Every four out of five black victims of violent crimes identified their assailant as another black person,” says Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. This quotation appears in the video “You Will Know,” a song performed by […]
House Speaker John Boehner said Wednesday that President Barack Obama “checked out” last Labor Day and has been running for reelection, rather than governing, ever since. “He’s spent the last six months campaigning from one end of the country to the other, instead of working with members of both political parties here in Washington to […]
It looks like it’s bag-over-the-head time for Greg Kane again. Usually, it’s my fellow conservatives that inspire my bag-over-the-head moments. There was Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in 2000, pulling a Harpo Marx routine while other justices asked probing questions about whether or not Florida’s electoral votes would go to Vice President Al Gore or […]
Authorities say a woman accused of killing a young mother and abducting a 3-day-old boy had suffered a recent miscarriage. Officials in Montgomery County say Verna McClain had told her fiancé she had given birth to his child. After she had a miscarriage, McClain allegedly killed Kala Golden and abducted tiny Keegan Golden from outside […]
