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The United States apologized Friday for a 1946-1948 research study that purposely infected people in Guatemala with sexually transmitted diseases.
President Barack Obama on Friday said a bittersweet goodbye to the energetic and fierce manager of his White House, chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, and elevated a quiet and seasoned adviser, Pete Rouse, to the most important gate-keeping job in American politics.
Mario, the Baltimore born R&B song famous for his songs “Just A Friend” and “Braid My Hair” was arrested for assaulting his mom in the Baltimore apartment they share, according to The Baltimore Sun. There are few details at the moment, but court records show Mario — whose full name is Mario Dewar Bennett — […]
California Governor, Arnold Scwarzenegger has signed a bill reducing deciminalizing marijuana for anybody caught carrying under an ounce, NORML is reporting. Yesterday outgoing California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed Senate Bill 1449 — which reduces adult marijuana possession charges from a criminal misdemeanor to a civil infraction. Senate Bill 1449 amends the California Health and Safety […]
WASHINGTON – Grasping for the electric energy that propelled him to the White House, President Barack Obama whipped up young supporters at a rally Thursday night, where the boisterous crowd tried to shout down any talk of an “enthusiasm gap” among Democrats. “I’m back here today just in case you’ve forgotten what it feels like […]
Fannie M. Richards was born (1841). She became an educator and civil rights activist. Black and white abolitionists smashed into a courtroom at Syracuse, NY, and rescued a fugitive slave (1851). John Mercer Langston founded and organized the Law Department of Howard University (1868), the first in a black school. Morgan State College was founded […]
The body of Tyler Clementi was found in the Rutgers suicide near the Hudson River. A body fished from the water north of the George Washington Bridge was identified Thursday as Tyler Clementi, the Rutgers freshman who killed himself after his sex life was exposed on the internet. The 18-year-old New Jersey man was […]
The city has told 200 families on the brink of homelessness to fend for themselves in an experiment that has cruelly turned them into virtual lab rats.