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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilians were outraged when they learned their country was a top target of the U.S. National Security Agency’s overseas spying operation, with data from billions of calls and emails swept up in Washington’s top secret surveillance program. Yet when it comes to the cloak and dagger effort of catching philandering […]
Talking Points Memo is reporting that a group of Louisiana Republicans think President Barack Obama is to blame for the federal government’s poor response to Hurricane Katrina despite the fact that the storm occurred three years before Obama took office. They reported: The latest survey from Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling, provided exclusively to TPM, showed […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Houston Texans defensive end Antonio Smith lost his cool in a preseason game, and it’s going to keep him out of the team’s season opener. Smith was suspended by the NFL on Wednesday for Week 1 of the regular season and the last two preseason games for hitting Miami guard Richie […]
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire’s highest court on Wednesday rejected a new trial for a man convicted of raping and impregnating a 15-year-old member of his church, a case that gained national attention because she said the church’s pastor made her apologize to the congregation. Ernest Willis was convicted in May 2011 of raping […]
ORRVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Microphone in hand, Republican Rep. Jim Renacci gave his constituents a grim report on Washington’s gridlock. House Republicans, he said, had passed a number of bills that would boost energy production, cut regulations and rein in spending. But, he added, President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats haven’t done their part. “It’s […]
Roland Martin Talks with author Taylor Branch about his new book, “The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement.”
LITHONIA, Ga. (AP) — Emergency dispatchers were told that the suspect in a shooting and standoff at a suburban Atlanta school was off his medication and he thought he should have gone to a mental hospital instead of a school. Michael Brandon Hill relayed messages to DeKalb County emergency dispatchers through a bookkeeper at McNair […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Almost a third of this year’s high school graduates who took the ACT tests are not prepared for college-level writing, biology, algebra or social science classes, according to data the testing company released Wednesday. The company’s annual report also found a gap between students’ interests now and projected job opportunities when they […]
DOVER, Del. (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden says his son, Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, has had a successful medical procedure in Texas, where he was being evaluated at a cancer center. Biden and his wife, Jill, say their son is in great shape. They say he will be discharged from the hospital on […]
It looks like there’s trouble in paradise for NBA star Ty Lawson and his reality star girlfriend Ashley Nicole Pettiford. Both were arrested for…
Asha Mandela of Atlanta can honestly say she carries a heavy load. Holding the title as the world’s longest dreadlocks, the Atlanta woman’s dreadlocks measure longer than 55 feet. Calling her hair ‘her baby’, Mandela carries her dreadlocks in a baby sling, making carrying them easier. But Mandela doesn’t grow her locks for vanity. She […]
We don’t know what possessed our friends over at djsdoingwork.com to post this video but we are glad that they did! McDonald’s is reportedly coming under…
