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At least seven people are dead and several injured after a shooting at a Sikh temple outside of Milwaukee SUNDAY.
Lashonda Tashia Cummings (pictured) was charged with child abuse on Friday after she allegedly pushed her 3-year-old daughter down a flight of stairs and then…
A 9 year old boy is on a mission to help the city of Detroit and he is making a big difference in more ways than one.
JACKSON, Miss. — A predominantly white Mississippi church has apologized for its refusal to allow a black couple to marry in its sanctuary, though the…
Joshua Smith, a 9-year-old boy from Detroit, Mich., has made national headlines over his ambitious efforts to help his hometown rise out of its ever-sinking…
Alexis Sumpter, a 15-year-old Harlem girl, was detained by New York Police Department (NYPD) officers for more than 90 minutes because they thought she illegally…
OAK CREEK, Wis. — A gunman opened fire Sunday and killed six people at a Sikh temple near Milwaukee before he was killed in an…
via CNN The U.S. Attorney’s Office said it is not confirming or denying reports that Jared Loughner will plead guilty in last year’s shooting rampage outside a Tucson, Arizona, supermarket. The attack killed six people and wounded 13 others, including then-U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. On Saturday night, the Los Angeles Times and the Wall Street […]
via Daily Mail What do Barack Obama, Thomas Jefferson, George W. Bush and the other past U.S. presidents have in common? Besides holding the coveted title of commander-in-chief, it appears that all of them but one are cousins. The remarkable discovery was made by 12-year-old BridgeAnne d’Avignon, of Salinas, California, who created a ground-breaking family […]
via CNN ou won’t be seeing Olympic gold medalist Gabby Douglas on a box of Wheaties. That’s because Kellogg’s has already swooped in and reached a deal with Douglas to put her picture on a box of Corn Flakes. The rush to get Douglas signed shows that she will likely be the big endorsement winner […]
via BBC News American Michael Phelps won the 18th and final Olympic gold medal of his career with a win in the 4x100m medley relay, before heading into retirement. The 27-year-old swam the third butterfly leg at London’s Aquatics Centre to help the United States past Japan in three minutes 29.35 seconds. Australia took the […]
via BBC News The US has confirmed it would resist efforts to put the internet under the control of the United Nations. At present several non-profit US bodies oversee the net’s technical specifications and domain name system. They operate at arms-length from the US government but officially under the remit of its Department of Commerce. […]