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President Obama said Friday that Rep. Weiner will bounce back from the “sexting” scandal that brought on his resignation. Obama showed support to Weiner and his wife, saying he wishes them well. “Obviously, it’s been a tough incident for him, but I’m confident that they’ll refocus and he’ll refocus, and they’ll end up being able […]
A man was arrested this morning after authorities found a suspicious looking package inside his car near the Pentagon.
Unpopular Republican Ohio governor John Kasich is proposing an $8 billion cut from his state’s 2011-13 budget. Despite the cut, reports indicate that it increases state spending by five billion dollars. The Republican-controlled state House and Senate have already passed versions of the budget. Final passage is scheduled to come at the end of the […]
Many know Montel Williams as a pitchman for several products, and for his nationally syndicated television talk show. But Williams will now be entering a new field as he’s opening a medical marijuana dispensary in Sacramento, California. In a news conference this past weekend, Williams spoke about his battles with multiple sclerosis and how marijuana […]
WASHINGTON — Islamic radicalization in prisons continues to be a concern among law enforcement officials across the U.S., and countering it should not be a partisan issue, the top Republican on the House Homeland Security said Wednesday. Rep. Peter King led the second in what he has promised to be a series of hearings on […]
New York is on the verge of becoming the sixth state in the union to legalize gay marriage, as soon as this week. The State Senate is one vote away from passing the law which was shot down two years ago in a Democratic-led Senate. In two years, opinion amongst New York state residents has […]
Deshon Marman, a University of New Mexico football player was arrested and cited for trespassing after he was asked to exit a plane over saggy pants at the San Francisco International Airport. Sgt. Michael Rodriguez says 20-year-old Deshon Marman was boarding a flight Wednesday to Albuquerque, N.M., when a U.S. Airways employee noticed his pants […]
NewsOne blogger Dr. Boyce Watkins recently wrote a story revealing that 38.3 percent of African Americans say they’ve lost their job at some point in the last three years. The survey, conducted by YourBlackWorld.com, showed that although 16 percent of those surveyed were able to find another job, 88 percent say they were unable to […]
Writer Earl Ofari Hutchinson tackled the topic of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s refusal to confront the racist past of his Mormon religion, in an op-ed on The Grio today. Hutchinson takes us back to the Mormons long standing purported curse of Ham teachings about Blacks, which justifies the enslavement of Blacks in many Mormon […]
Oprah Winfrey announced that she wants to interview O.J. Simpson for the “Oprah Winfrey Network” on the condition that he confesses to the 1994 murder of Nicole Brown Simpson. “I have a dream of O.J. Simpson confessing to me,” Oprah told a group cable execs at the National Cable & Telecommunications Association convention in Chicago. […]