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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is blasting fellow Republican John Boehner for the House Speaker’s decision to delay a vote on Superstorm Sandy relief and says the inaction is “inexcusable.” Christie said Wednesday that the House is playing politics with the $60 billion aid request and it’s hurting Northeasterners who are […]
MALIBU, Calif. (AP) — The son of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling was found dead of an apparent drug overdose at his Malibu home, authorities said Wednesday. The body of Scott Ashley Sterling, 32, was found shortly after 11:30 p.m. Tuesday in the 22600-block of Pacific Coast Highway, Los Angeles County coroner’s Lt. Larry […]
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — Relatives of the majority of people killed in a Colorado movie theater are rejecting an invitation to attend its reopening, calling it a “disgusting offer.” The parents, grandparents, cousins and widow of nine of the 12 people killed released a letter Wednesday sent to the theater’s owner, Cinemark. The Plano, Texas-based […]
DETROIT (AP) — A 26-year-old woman is charged with murder in the stabbing death of her 8-year-old daughter in their Detroit home. Detroit police responding to a 911 call found Tameria Greene unresponsive early Sunday morning on the floor of the family’s near east side apartment. The girl had been stabbed in the chest and […]
Wisconsin State Senator Glenn Grothman actually composed and sent out a press release calling for an end to the African American holiday, Kwanzaa. He asks in a press release: “Why must we still hear about Kwanzaa? Why are hard-core left wingers still trying to talk about Kwanzaa – the supposed African-American holiday celebration between Christmas […]
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Survivors of a stampede in Ivory Coast that killed 61 people, most of them children and teenagers, after a New Year’s Eve fireworks display said Wednesday that barricades stopped them from moving along a main boulevard, causing the crush of people. Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara ordered three days of […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — While the tax package that Congress passed New Year’s Day will protect 99 percent of Americans from an income tax increase, most of them will still end up paying more federal taxes in 2013. That’s because the legislation did nothing to prevent a temporary reduction in the Social Security payroll tax from […]
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 […]
