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WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton continues to recover in a New York hospital where she’s being treated for a blood clot in her head. Her doctors say blood thinners are being used to dissolve the clot and they are confident she will make a full recovery. Clinton didn’t suffer a stroke […]
Employers in California and Illinois will no longer be able to force their workers to provide their Facebook passwords. The new law is one of 400 state measures created in 2012 that are expected to take effect in 2013. The social media policy will prohibit bosses from asking for password to personal employee accounts as […]
A Kansas man is fighting against the state for being forced to pay child support after he donated his sperm. William Marotta offered his sperm to a lesbian couple in 2009 after responding to their Craigslist ad requesting a donor. The two women raising the three-year-old little girl, Angela Bauer and Jennifer Schreiner later broke […]
JET Magazine has a long history as Black America’s news magazine. It’s a tradition they take seriously under new editor-in-chief Mitzi Miller. In a sad postscript to 2012, Jet’s first cover story of 2013 is about 17-year-old Jordan Davis, the latest victim of Florida’s notorious “Stand Your Ground” law. “Standing Our Ground” written by acclaimed […]
JET Magazine has a long history as Black America’s news magazine. It’s a tradition they take seriously under new editor-in-chief Mitzi Miller. In a sad postscript to 2012, Jet’s first cover story of 2013 is about 17-year-old Jordan Davis, the latest victim of Florida’s notorious “Stand Your Ground” law. “Standing Our Ground” written by acclaimed […]
Andy Reid is the winningest coach in the history of the Philadelphia Eagles. Lovie Smith led the Chicago Bears to the 2007 Super Bowl. Now they’re looking for work. Seven coaches and five general managers were fired Monday in a flurry of pink slips that were delivered the day after the regular-season ended. Ken Whisenhunt […]
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — A crowd stampeded after leaving a New Year’s fireworks show early Tuesday in Ivory Coast’s main city, killing 61 people — many of them children and teenagers — and injuring more than 200, rescue workers said. Thousands had gathered at the Felix Houphouet Boigny Stadium in Abidjan’s Plateau district to […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Emergency legislation to avoid the economy-threatening fiscal cliff ran into vehement New Year’s Day opposition from House Republicans, casting doubt on the divided government’s ability to prevent widespread tax increases and painful, across-the-board federal spending cuts. “I do not support the bill. We are looking, though, for the best path forward,” House […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The “fiscal cliff” deadline has passed — technically, at least. The beginning of the New Year in theory means across-the-board tax increases and spending cuts kick in, but Congress is working to cancel them before they can have an impact. The White House and congressional leaders hope to send legislation to President […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Agonizing close to a New Year’s Eve compromise, the White House and congressional Republicans agreed Monday to block across-the-board tax increases set for midnight, but held up a final deal as they haggled away the final hours of 2012 in a dispute over spending cuts. “It appears that an agreement to prevent […]
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The father of the gunman who killed 26 people in a Connecticut school shooting has claimed his son’s body. A spokesman for the family said Monday that Peter Lanza claimed the remains of Adam Lanza. He didn’t say when the remains were claimed. The 20-year-old Adam Lanza killed 20 first-graders and […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of revelers from around the globe are expected to cram into New York City’s Times Square to see the ball drop and ring in 2013. The giant ball is covered with 2,688 Waterford crystal triangles and illuminated by more than 32,000 LEDs in red, blue, green and white. […]
