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Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, son of US Vice-President Joe Biden, has suffered a “mild stroke”, the White House has said. Beau Biden, 41, was in stable condition in hospital, officials said, adding that he was “fully alert” and with “full motor and speech skills”. He was also said to be in good spirits and […]

The Los Angeles city council has voted to boycott Arizona businesses in one of the strongest moves yet against the state’s new immigration law. Council members agreed to bar official travel to Arizona and avoid new city contracts with state firms. Last month, Arizona passed a law requiring police to check the immigration status of […]

From the Washington Post: Arizona took another hit Wednesday as Republicans cast a vote for the home of their 2012 convention. Phoenix made the short list but lost out to Tampa. Click here to view photos. It was little surprise to tourism officials in Arizona. Since the state passed the nation’s toughest immigration law three […]

More than 2,000 Northeast Ohio nonprofits are in danger of losing their tax-exempt status Monday if they do not file a new tax return. Many don’t realize it. As the final days tick away, experts fear that a 2006 change in the tax law will wipe out many local grassroots charities that never realized they […]

From the New York Times: Blacks and Latinos were nine times as likely as whites to be stopped by the police in New York City in 2009, but no more likely to actually be arrested. Click here to view photos. The more than 575,000 stops of people in the city — a record number of […]

  From the Huffington Post: In one of the greatest domestic population shifts in American history, African Americans poured out of the South in the early 20th century. The so-called “Great Migration” brought millions of southern blacks to areas across the country, including hundreds of thousands who came to Chicago. The city’s South Side quickly […]

Brown said he loved the job of prime minister not for pomp and ceremony, but “for its potential to make this country I love fairer, more tolerant, more green, more democratic, more prosperous and more just. Full Story  CNN.Com

United States Attorney General Eric Holder stated on Sunday that he doesn’t think that the Arizona law which cracks down on illegal immigration is racially-motivated. But he says that he is concerned that the law might promote racial-profiling. He also acknowledged that the US has a national immigration problem and that the problem can’t be […]

(CBS) President Obama delivered the commencement address today at Virginia’s Hampton University – his first as president to a predominantly African-American school. Fifty-five percent of African-American high school seniors go on to college these days, compared to 45 percent in 1970. But graduation day is another story, as CBS News correspondent Russ Mitchell reports. At Hampton University, […]

It took more than four decades for a former Alabama state trooper to be indicted on charges that he gunned down a black demonstrator – a killing that helped galvanize the civil rights movement. Now a three-year delay for the trial has both sides fearing that elderly witnesses could die before they get a chance […]

SANA’A // Elham Mahdi al Assi, a 13-year-old girl, died from severe haemorrhaging and the rupturing of internal organs as a result of sexual intercourse, just five days after she was married. Her death follows a number of high-profile child marriage cases that have shaken Yemen and, activists hope, may go some way towards bringing […]

Not long ago, Fox News’s Alisyn Camerota interviewed Fox contributor Karl Rove and committed one of those faux pas that can make viewing Fox so interesting. She asked Rove about the steady stream of Code Pink protesters who had been following him on his book tour. “These are sort of sad and pathetic people,” Rove […]