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Known for her curvy physique, tennis champion, Serena Williams who is listed at 5'10 and 160lbs has come out to defend junior tennis star, Taylor Townsend. This week a story broke that the U.S. Tennis Association (USTA) reportedly denied Townsend a trip to the U.S. Open Juniors because they believe she is overweight. Townsend is […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama vowed Wednesday the United States would "work with the Libyan government to bring to justice" those who killed U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans in an attack on the consulate in Benghazi. "Make no mistake. Justice will be done," he said in a Rose Garden appearance at […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Here's something most politicians can "like": Facebook friends played a big role in getting hundreds of thousands of people to vote in 2010, a new scientific study claims. Facebook researchers and scientists at the University of California, San Diego conducted a massive online experiment in the mid-term congressional election to test and […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Americans marked the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks Tuesday in familiar but subdued ceremonies that put grieving families ahead of politicians and suggested it's time to move on after a decade of remembrance. As in past years, thousands gathered at the World Trade Center site in New […]
Fox News will air a correction for a misleading graphic that ran on Tuesday’s “Fox & Friends.” Liberal watchdog group Media Matters discovered the errors in the graphic displaying the unemployment rates during President Barack Obama’s term. The graphic tried to compare the official unemployment figure in 2009 to the “real” 2012 unemployment figure. However, […]
Got a question for Dr. Robin? Text it to “646464” (OHOHOH). — We all know about finding comfort in food when we have the blues, a down day, or a need to protect ourselves from bigger hurts. But when the struggle is with food or relationships or money, the real culprit may be that we […]
A disgraced, former New York City police officer now insists he only hatched the ticket-writing scheme of issuing summonses to dead people that caused him his career as a means of satisfying orders from his superiors to drastically increase the 125 to 150 citations he was already producing each month. Paul Pizzuto, a 17-year veteran […]
Go ‘head, Tea Party people. You bad. At least some seem to think so, if this recent report by Demos and Common Cause is any indication. According to the study, “Bullies at the Ballot Box: Protecting the Freedom to Vote from Wrongful Challenges and Intimidation,” True the Vote and other Tea Party groups are apparently […]
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A fan of Muhammad Ali has acquired an important piece of memorabilia: the boxing great's boyhood home. Las Vegas real estate investor Jared Weiss closed on the property earlier this week, a Louisville realtor told The Associated Press on Tuesday. Realtor Dave Lambrechts said Weiss paid $70,000 for the small white […]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida A&M University, which has been rocked by a hazing scandal for nearly a year, insists in legal papers filed Monday that it is not to blame for the tragic death last year of drum major Robert Champion. The university maintained that it was Champion, not the school, who bears the […]
ATLANTA (AP) — For decades, Southerners put a firm imprint on national politics from both sides of the aisle, holding the White House for 25 of the past 50 years and producing a legion of Capitol Hill giants during the 20th century. But that kind of obvious power has waned as Democrats and Republicans in […]
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey woman pleaded not guilty Tuesday to causing the death of a man who prosecutors say she gave a fatal dose of silicone during a penile enhancement procedure. Kasia Rivera, 35, pleaded not guilty to reckless manslaughter in the death of 22-year-old Justin Street. Both are from East Orange, […]
