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New York (NY Daily News)– Tea Party superstar Rand Paul bucked the GOP leadership on Sunday by pushing drastic budget-cutting proposals, including a 10% pay slash for federal workers.

In 2008, the Obama camp tapped into the power of the Internet to engage its base, but this year it was Republicans using social media. News One’s Smokey Fontaine joined Roland Martin on “Washington Watch” via the HP SkyRoom to detail what Republicans did. WATCH: Republicans Using Social Media To Rally Their Base

Black Girls Rock is a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to the healthy development of young women and girls. The organization builds self-esteem and self-worth, broadening their horizons and helping them to empower themselves as well as others. Black Girls Rock Inc. joined forces with BET for a world broadcast highlighting the accomplishments of exceptional […]

Tuesday’s election results are a bitter pill for the president and his supporters to swallow. To be essentially routed by the Republican Party from top to bottom goes beyond humbling. It’s a wholesale rejection of the Democratic Party as well as many of the policies championed by President Obama. So what world do we face […]

Washington D.C. (Examiner) — President Obama may be away on a trip to India, but he is still making news on the domestic front back home.  Today the White House released the President’s weekly address.  In the address, President Obama makes clear that he favors an extension of the middle-class tax cut before they expire […]

New York (NYTimes) — Keith Olbermann will be allowed to resume his nightly program on MSNBC on Tuesday, the channel’s president said Sunday night, after he was suspended for donating money to three Democratic candidates.

In his inaugural address in January 2009, President Barack Obama promised a new era of diplomacy in foreign affairs. “To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history,” he said. But, he continued, “we will extend a hand if […]

After being slammed for appearing to list a controversial tweet from Ann Coulter’s as a “favorite” on her Twitter account, Sarah Palin defended herself Friday by saying she didn’t even know how to tag Twitter posts.

Police arrested 152 protesters who streamed through the streets Friday – some breaking windows and knocking down fences – after a white ex-transit officer, Johannes Mehserle, received the minimum two-year prison sentence for fatally shooting of Oscar Grant on a California train platform.

In her new book, Soledad O’Brien talks about her struggles with her racial identity growing up, and how Rev. Jesse Jackson once questioned her “blackness.” Below is an excerpt from her book “The Next Big Story.” Even though I am not sure what he is saying, I can tell he is angry. Today he is […]