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Hoping to maintain momentum among Hispanic voters, President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign released a series of Spanish-speaking television ads this week. The ads will air in Colorado, Nevada, and Florida — all battleground states with growing Hispanic populations. The four television spots feature an Obama supporter talking about the president’s education policies. In […]
The Secret Service says three employees are out of the agency in the wake of a prostitution scandal in Colombia. Of the three workers forced out in the scandal, one is a supervisor who was allowed to retire. Another is a supervisor who has been designated for removal for cause, which requires that the employee […]
via CNN An appeal over singer Janet Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction” and brief partial nudity on national television has reached the Supreme Court, the latest free speech episode over indecent, if fleeting, images and words on the public airwaves. The Obama administration has asked the Supreme Court to decide whether record government fines against CBS should […]
An Oklahoma man said he doesn’t hate African-Americans and counts some of them among his best friends. Murder and hate crime charges were filed on Friday accusing him and another man of killing three strangers because they were black. Clark Brewster, lawyer for 19-year-old Jake England, told reporters Friday he would not comment specifically about […]
George Zimmerman pursued Florida teenager Trayvon Martin as he tried to run home and provoked a confrontation before shooting Martin in the chest during a struggle, prosecutors contended in court documents made public Thursday. The allegations appear in a probable cause affidavit prepared in support of a second-degree murder charge against Zimmerman, who made his […]
via BBC News The American Nazi Party has registered its first lobbyist in Washington DC. John Bowles, 55, told US media he wanted to address political rights and ballot access and he expected congressmen would accept meetings. Lobbying was something the party would “try out for the first time and see if it flies,” Mr […]
via BBC News A US police chief just days from retirement has been killed and four officers injured during a drugs raid on a house in a small New Hampshire town. Michael Maloney, 48, died in the shootout in Greenland, with two wounded officers now stable in hospital. Police said the gunman and a woman […]
via BBC News Businesses should not be obliged to enforce lunch breaks for employees, the Supreme Court of California has said. The judges ruled unanimously on a case in which workers argued that workplace abuses were common and employers were required to allow meal breaks. Workers filed the lawsuit nine years ago against the owner […]
The Lingerie Football League is hanging up its garters for the 2012 season. League spokesman Jim Wallin announced Friday that the LFL will go on hiatus until April 2013 so it can get on a warm-weather schedule in the spring and summer. Until then, players will go on promotional tours in Australia and Asia. The […]
INDIANAPOLIS – Baylor failed to monitor its men’s and women’s basketball programs and violated recruiting rules, according to findings by the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions. The current men’s basketball head coach also was cited for failure to monitor, and a former assistant men’s basketball coach was found to have engaged in unethical conduct, […]
Most babies travel down one canal before making their entrance into the world, but a baby girl in China had twice the work cut out…
While most spent Easter weekend with their own families, Janelle Monáe was at the White House performing for the First Family. The Grammy-nominated singer joined President Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and their daughters at the 134th annual White House Easter Egg Roll, entertaining more than 35,000 people on the South Lawn. “HUGE THANK YOU […]