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WASHINGTON — Short of a deal, congressional leaders bargained and squabbled by turns Thursday on legislation to cut spending and prevent a partial government shutdown that loomed for Friday at midnight. After all-night talks among aides, President Barack Obama summoned Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. to the White House […]
NEW YORK-Cathie Black, New York Mayor, Mike Bloomberg’s, choice for New York City schools chancellor has resigned after a lot of pressure and controversy and a 17% approval rating. Black was a former magazine executive with no experience in education. The New York Times reports: Ms. Black will be replaced by Deputy Mayor Dennis M. […]
NEW YORK — Robert Whitfield, a prison guard at Rikers Island, was arrested for allegedly plotting to spring a drug kingpin from jail in exchange for three kilos of cocaine and $20,000. Authorities learned of the unfolding scheme between Whitfield and an inmate, and caught him by posing an agent as an intermediary. READ MORE […]
CINCINNATI-Police in Cincinnati, Ohio are impounding cars with rims 20 inches or bigger citing a safety law. These rims known as “donks” are popular in African American communities down south and this can be seen as another form of racial profiling and harassment of African Americans by police. Auto Guide reports: Cincinnati police cited a […]
Chicago, Illinois– It’s a w(rap) for Grammy-award winning hip-hop artist Che “Rhymefest” Smith, who was making a bid to become alderman of Chicago’s 20th ward.
Florida– Four pre-teen students were pricked by a hypodermic needle one of the students found at the school bus stop according to the local authorities.
BROOKLYN-Judge Nicholas Garaufis has given an Asian woman indefinite jury duty for racist answers to a survey giving. The New York Daily News reports: An incensed federal judge sentenced a racist Brooklyn woman to indefinite jury duty on Tuesday after she trashed the NYPD and minorities. Asked to name three people she least admired, she […]
WASHINGTON — There are probably a lot of people walking the earth who were conceived to it — and now Al Green’s song “Let’s Stay Together” is getting another bit of recognition. It’s among the 25 songs that will be added this year to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress. The library […]
Miami, Florida– A 20-year-old woman was charged with grand larceny after she was accused of stealing $1,600 from a man and hiding it in her weave.
Elected in January, California’s first female and minority attorney general, Kamala Harris, has become a rising star of the Democratic Party. The daughter of an Indian mother and a Jamaican father, Harris has made quite a name for herself in politics, and comparisons are being made between her and President Obama. READ MORE AND WATCH […]