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CONNECTICUT-An Action Figure company, Hero Builder, is making a new action figure of President Barack Obama to honor him for making the order to kill Osama Bin Laden. The New York Daily News reports: The Rambo-style Obama is armed with an M1-A4 rifle and is dressed in military fatigues and a black and red skull […]

NEW YORK, New York — Wings Academy high-school basketball star Deonte Houston was charged with first-degree robbery after he and three others allegedly stole an iPod from a 15-year-old boy. NY Daily News reports: The 17-year-old point guard and his cohorts rode their bikes into Pugsley Creek Park in Clason Point at 6 p.m. Sunday […]

On the heels of Republican Newt Gingrich announcing his run for the presidency in 2012, reports are surfacing that Ron Paul will be throwing his name in the hat as well. The controversial Republican who many deem a racist – will run for the second time – and hope to become the Republican nominee unlike […]

WASHINGTON D.C. – Several senators who have seen the pictures of dead Osama Bin Laden pictures have been describing them as “gruesome” to the media. The New York Daily News reports: “It wasn’t a very pretty picture,” said Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK), on Fox News. “Either a bullet, the significant bullet, went through the ear […]

MISSISSIPPI – Former Detroit Mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick is suing SkyTel for releasing text messages he sent to his former chief of staff, Christine Beatty. These text messages, on city issued Skytel pagers, were sexually explicit and revealed that the two used city funds for their romantic trips, and planned to fire police chief Gary Brown. […]

DALLAS, Texas — Over 50 years after being one of 11 Black students to integrate the University of North Texas, Dallas mother Burlyce Logan returned to the school to earn her bachelor’s degree. NBC Dallas reports: In 1997, Logan told her husband she wanted to get her degree and she wanted it from UNT, but […]

NEW YORK – In an interview with Fox News, former Alaska Governor, Sarah Palin, said that President, Barack Obama made a bad decision by inviting rapper Common to a poetry reading at the White House because of a song he did about Asaata Shakur, who was accused of killing a police officer. Yahoo reports: “You […]

WASHINGTON D.C. – Rand Paul, the Freshman Senator, from Kentucky compared universal health care to slavery to a congressional committee on health and labor. Raw Story reports: “With regard to the idea of whether you have a right to health care, you have realize what that implies,” the senator said. “It’s not an abstraction. I’m […]

WASHINGTON — Despite acknowledging a legacy of discrimination, the Department of Agriculture is still plagued by civil rights problems that have in the past led to unequal treatment of minorities seeking loans and other help, according to a government-commissioned report Wednesday.

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