CLEVELAND – On Tuesday, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced the presenters who will induct the 2012 honorees at the induction ceremony in Cleveland next month.
President Barack Obama is welcoming British Prime Minister David Cameron to the White House with all the pomp of a state visit as the allies stress their unity in dealing with hot spots like Iran, Syria and Afghanistan. Amid concerns in Britain that U.S. focus is drifting toward East Asia, Obama is seeking to reassure […]
A strong earthquake shook northern Japan on Wednesday evening, causing small tidal changes on its Pacific coastline but no damage or injury was reported. Several towns issued evacuation orders or advisories to residents nearest the coast. A swelling of 20 centimeters (8 inches) was observed in the port of Hachinohe in Aomori, northern Japan, about […]
President Obama has made alliances with the right folks in Hollywood, or shall we say, Atlanta. While Republicans have flooded Georgia, the Democratic leader is making his way to the peach state to visit supporters at Tyler Perry’s house on March 16. A Gala Celebration, sponsored by the African American Leadership Council and Tyler Perry […]
Ruben Studdard visited by The Wendy Williams Show Tuesday to promote his fifth album, “Letters From Birmingham,” and discuss a number of other topics, including who should judge “X-Factor,” the truth behind his divorce, his tax problems and his former “American Idol” rival Clay Aiken’s chances on NBC’s “The Apprentice.” After Williams questioned Studdard about […]
When you put together everything Americans produce in a year, it adds up to some $16 trillion — an almost unimaginable amount of money. Now for the first time in its history, the United States owes its creditors that same amount. The $16 trillion of federal debt is as big as the nation’s entire economic […]
Scam artists are targeting older Americans more than ever. Over the last decade, both complaints and financial losses among baby boomers have skyrocketed, and the trend is expected to accelerate as they age, according to a recent report by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) received more than […]
The web (including Marvin Olasky’s online column on Monday) is buzzing about a recent New York Times article that expounds on the shameful trend of having children without the benefit of marriage to the children’s father. Read it, but you’ll find nothing new or profound there. The article might evoke anger at the excuse-making (one […]
More than 70 percent of students involved in school-related arrests or cases referred to law enforcement were Hispanic or African-American, according to an Education Department report that raises questions about whether students of all races are disciplined evenhandedly in America’s schools. Black students are more than three times as likely as their white peers to […]
Kid Cudi thanked fans for supporting his side project and to badmouth his label, Universal Republic, for shipping what he considers to be a low number of physical copies of the album. “Ok so just a heads up, my weak ass label only shipped 55k physicals cuz they treated this like some indie side project tax right […]
NeNe Leakes was hit with an unpleasant surprise when she returned from South Africa. Her son, Bryson, was locked up in Gwinnett County Jail in Georgia after being accused of stealing razors from a local Walmart. It wasn’t the first incident of Bryson being locked up, so NeNe wasn’t having it this time. She decided […]
Will Smith and his production company, Overbrook Entertainment, are preparing to begin filming a new comedy which also stars Dominican singer Romeo Santos. The network bought the Untitled Romeo Project back in October 2011, and it will center around a young man from Washington Heights, New York, “who tries to please his very traditional, immigrant […]