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NEW YORK — Just when you think terrorist plots couldn’t get any more bizarre, the Transportation Security Administration has cautioned airline executives of a possible terror tactic involving surgically stitched explosives inside suicide bombers. The NY Daily News Reports: Terrorists simply keep looking for new ways to sneak bombs past increasingly stiff airport security, TSA […]

DETROIT — Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who was caught in an infidelity scandal, tells his side of the story in his new book, “Surrendered: The Rise, Fall and Revelation of Kwame Malik Kilpatrick.” Kilpatrick, who was the youngest mayor elected to office, seeks to set the record straight about many accusations made against him […]

Despite President Obama’s calls for Israel and Palestine to come together and talk about a 1967-esque land swap, a Gallup poll reveals no signs of wavering support from the Jewish community. The poll reveals that 60 percent of Jewish voters approve of the president’s job performance, while 85 percent of Jewish Democrats approved. Such numbers […]

MONTICELLO, Miss. — Cory Maye, a prisoner who was sentenced to death then life in prison for killing a police officer that he believed was a home invader, will be released from prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter. The Huffington Post reports: Shortly after midnight on December 26, 2001, Maye, then 21, was drifting off […]

The only Democratic president ever re-elected had advice for the current president on his debt ceiling talks: “Don’t Blink.” Former president Clinton urged President Obama to not allow the Republicans to get the upper hand in debt negotiation talks. “This is the political equivalent of the government shutdown when I was president,” Clinton offered, leaning […]

Former alleged Nation of Islam member, and currently incarcerated federal felon, Clayton Hill has allegedly confessed to his role as an accessory after the fact to the murder of The Notorious B.I.G. In his account with HipHopDX, also to be released in his e-book “Diary Of An Ex-Terrorist,” Hill implicates himself and members of the […]

A new article on TheGrio talks about the viral phenomenon that has hit the mainstream called planking. Planking is when people either lay on an object or on top of each other with their face down, usually in a public place, and then post the photos online. It became a craze after a 20-year-old fell […]

Time Magazine editor-at-large Mark Halperin has been under fire for calling President Obama a “D**k” on MSNBC’s Morning Joe last week. Writer Michelle Goldberg says Halperin’s actions were in part due to him “being so cowed by conservatives that he’s offended by Obama’s mild poke at the GOP.” She continues: His response embodies all that’s […]

Casey Anthony, the woman from Orlando Florida accused of killing her 3-year-old daughter, Kaylee Anthony has been found not guilty of  murdering her daughter. She was only found guilty of providing false information to an officer.

The final launch of Atlantis on July 8 will mark the end of the American space era, where six of these unique spacecrafts flew 135 missions. Of those missions, 20 African-Americans earned the title “Astronaut,” and 13 actually went to space. The Root honors these distinct men and women in a biographical gallery. See The […]