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Media mogul and philanthropist Oprah Winfrey will deliver the 2012 commencement address at Spelman College on Sunday, May 20. The class of approximately 550 will…
ORLANDO, Fla. — After spending a week in a jail cell by himself, the neighborhood watch volunteer charged with murdering Trayvon Martin stands a good…
While the millions of victims who perished during the Holocaust were overwhelmingly Jewish and at the forefront of Adolf Hitler‘s psycho-driven efforts to “purify” Europe,…
As more details begin to emerge in the Florida shooting death of Trayvon Martin, 17, at the hands of self-appointed neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman,…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A top lawmaker briefed on the investigation into a Secret Service prostitution scandal said more firings could be imminent following the forced…
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 […]