With factories swapping technology for workers during the recovery, jobs may not come back for decades. by Joel Schectman Looking out at the mammoth factory floor where Samsung Austin Semiconductor assembles microchips, Cyrus Bavarian realized there was one thing missing: people. Bavarian, a 24-year-old process engineer hired last spring fresh from the University of […]

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By Nicole Balin: Whether it’s vandalizing a Mosque or a hateful taunt, harassment of Muslim Americans post 9/11 is at an all time high. But what about African-American Muslims, who according to the most recent study by the Virginia based Allied Media Corp, make up 24% of 7 million Muslims in America? They can be […]

DETROIT (AP) The family of 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones, who was killed in a Detroit police raid to find a murder suspect, has sued A&E Television Networks for encouraging police aggression by videotaping the raid. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Detroit Tuesday claims the network and production crew filming for the cable television […]

Washington — President Barack Obama on Friday signed an $858 billion tax bill into law, saying “this is progress and that’s what they (the American people) sent us here to achieve.”

Washington — President Barack Obama is expected to sign legislation that will extend the Bush-Era tax cuts for the wealthy and also extend unemployment benefits to 13 months and cut payroll taxes by 2%. RELATED STORIES Bush Tax Cuts Extension Deal Passes The House CBC ‘Overwhelmingly Opposed’ To Obama’s Tax Cut Deal

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Convicted dogfighting-ring operator Michael Vick hopes to own a dog again someday.

FORT LAUDERDALE –Sheldon Gonzales said he was asleep on his couch Tuesday night when he was suddenly “awakened by a burning sensation in the crotch of his pants,” according to a report from the Broward Sheriff’s Office.

Ciara’s album release party for Basic Instinct went down last night at Drai’s Hollywood.

Los Angeles — Sam Jones III, an actor who played Clark Kent’s friend on “Smallville” and made a sex tape with Playboy Playmate, Karrissa Shannon has plead guilty to serving as the Hollywood connection in an oxycontin pill conspiracy. Jones was arrested in 2009 by the DEA in California.He could face up to 20 years […]

LAS VEGAS — Police say boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. is in a Las Vegas jail after being arrested on a misdemeanor warrant alleging he poked a security guard in the face last month outside his home. Police Officer Jacinto Rivera said Friday that Mayweather was arrested late Thursday at a Las Vegas-area casino and was […]