WASHINGTON  — The Democratic-led Senate blocked a House bill Friday that would provide disaster aid and keep government agencies open, escalating the parties’ latest showdown over spending and highlighting the raw partisan rift that has festered all year. In a tit-for-tat battle, the Senate used a near party-line vote of 59-36 to derail the measure […]

A young mother may face criminal charges for raising thousands of dollars while faking her 14-month-old daughter’s fight against leukemia. “This child is not ill, ” North Hampton District Attorney John Morganelli told to NBC Philiadelphia after reviewing the evidence and speaking with Arielle Brooks, the mother of the baby in question. Brooks has put together both a Facebook […]

Former Ravens player Orlando Brown has been found dead in his downtown Baltimore home, officials and the team said. The former athlete was 40. Coach John Harbaugh announced Brown’s death in a news conference Friday afternoon. According to the Baltimore Sun, Fire Department spokesman Kevin Cartwright said medics were called after the player was found […]

A twenty-two-year-old man with down syndrome is recovering from his injuries nearly a week after Miami-Dade police officers beat him outside his home. According to police reports, a violent confrontation ensued after officers tried to handcuff Gilberto Powell to investigate a bulge they spotted in his pants. After he was detained they realized the bulge […]

Police in Missouri arrested a man for an incident last Saturday after he pulled a shotgun on a Taco Bell employee for forgetting to include hot sauce with his order. Police said Jeremy Combs, 30, arrived home after making an order at a Lee Summit, MO. Taco Bell. Combs returned to the restaurant’s drive-through with […]

PROVIDENCE, R.I.- A loose pitbull walked into a Providence barbershop and began tormenting customers in Providence, Rhode Island. The pitbull had previously broken out his home and bit three children. Woman Sues Rapper Rick Ross After Pitbull Kills Poodle Tragic! Stepdad’s Dog “Machete” Mauls 4-Year-Old To Death WPRI reports: After roaming around the neighborhood, the […]

Audience members booed  an openly gay soldier when a question he asked was posed to former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum through a video stream during Thursday’s Republican presidential debate. Stephen Hill, a soldier serving in Iraq, spoke on having to lie about who he was in order to serve in the army. Santorum approached the controversial topic, […]

I have admitted out loud that I watch the “Basketball Wives” franchise. The Miami wives is like watching a car accident, you drive by and shiver as you see the ruins of people all over the sidewalk. Watching the LA wives is equal to  watching your best girlfriends survive through life. It’s your weekly “catch-up” […]

With Black unemployment approaching 17 percent in the country — the highest in 27 years — the Congressional Black Caucus’ forum this week will surely focus on this issue. In a series of town hall meetings and discussions, several members will talk about the unemployment problem and how to attack it. The CBC conference comes […]

CBC Chair Emanuel Cleaver has responded to critics saying that his organization wasn’t as proactive in attacking the president until President Obama took office. The claim that a Black president taking office was all it took for the Congressional Black Caucus to reengage in the issues bothers Cleaver. “If (former President) Bill Clinton had been […]