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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama‘s top national security adviser Tom Donilon is resigning and will be replaced by Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. who has been a lightning rod for Republican criticism over faulty explanations for the attack that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya. Donilon has been a key foreign […]
Former 2003 Miss America pageant winner Erika Harold launched her campaign for Congress on Tuesday. Currently a lawyer, the 33-year-old Harvard educated beauty queen announced her candidacy during an event at an Illinois high school. Harold is planning to challenge Republican Rep. Rodney Davis out of Illinois for a spot in Illinois’s 13th Congressional District. […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Michelle Obama threatened to leave a nighttime fundraiser unless a protester quit interrupting her speech. Mrs. Obama was speaking Tuesday evening at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser in Washington. According to a pool report from a reporter who attended the event, an audience member started shouting in support of an […]
Count on Florida to concoct laws that have nothing to do with justice, but much to do with political expediency. It’s been that way for a while. In 2010, under the pretense of preventing voter fraud, the GOP-led Legislature and Gov. Rick Scott limited early voting hours and imposed other inconveniences that led to block-long […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Black people are arrested for possessing marijuana far more often than white people, even though marijuana use by both races is about the same, the American Civil Liberties Union reports in a new study. The ACLU’s analysis of federal crime data, released Tuesday, found marijuana arrest rates for black people were 3.73 […]
Tayloni Mazyck, 11, was shot in the neck by a stray bullet in front her Bedford Stuyvesant (Bed-Stuy) home in New York and may never…
When Linda Henry (pictured) of Westwego, La., was viciously attacked by three of her four pitbulls last March, the attack left her without an eye,…
Francisco Diego, Jr. (pictured) was electrocuted and struck by a train as he attempted to retrieve his iPhone that had dropped onto subway train tracks…
Boy, just when you thought it was safe to go to the mailbox. Apparently the Ku Klux Klan went around like the welcome wagon…
We don’t normally report on Senator John McCain’s family matters, but today’s an appropriate time to do so. The Arizona senator’s son, Jack was married over the weekend to Renee Swift. And you may have noticed that Ms. Swift, Now Mrs. McCain, is a person of color. People reported that the younger McCain, 27, is […]
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Larry Langford blamed everyone but himself when he stood outside the courthouse moments after he was convicted on federal corruption charges and ousted as Birmingham’s mayor. He said he’d been treated worse than Jeffrey Dahmer, the infamous mass murderer and cannibal. That remarkable exercise in free speech could cost Langford additional […]
David “Deacon” Jones, the original sackmaster, has died. The Hall of Fame defensive end credited with terming the word sack for how he knocked down quarterbacks, was 74. The Washington Washington Football Team said that Jones died of natural causes at his home in Southern California on Monday night. “Deacon Jones was one of the […]
