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Michael Enright, is accused of attempted murder as a hate crime in the stabbing of Ahmed Sharif, a New York City taxi driver.

Ken Mehlman, who headed the Republican National Committee between 2005 and 2007, has come out in an interview with the Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder: Mehlman arrived at this conclusion about his identity fairly recently, he said in an interview. He agreed to answer a reporter’s questions, he said, because, now in private life, he wants to become […]

Black Enterprise, the nation’s premier business and wealth building resource for African Americans, announced that a digital edition of the publication designed exclusively for the Apple iPad will be now available for download. The release makes Black Enterprise the first African American-owned and operated magazine to provide its content through the iPad app. 

In the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina, an order circulated among New Orleans police authorizing officers to shoot looters, according to present and former members of the department.

VIA: CNN.COM Her divorce is final and she’s ready to talk. Elin Nordegren breaks her nine-month silence in an exclusive interview with PEOPLE magazine. “I have been through the stages of disbelief and shock, to anger and ultimately grief over the loss of the family I so badly wanted for my children,” she says in […]

Next month’s opening of the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools will be auspicious for a reason other than its both storied and infamous history as the former Ambassador Hotel, where the Democratic presidential contender was assassinated in 1968. With an eye-popping price tag of $578 million, it will mark the inauguration of the nation’s most […]

My buddy Ralph Drake sent out an e-mail of some information that he had picked up on thesmokinggun.com’s web page.

VIA: CNN.COM Zemco Industries in Buffalo, New York, has recalled approximately 380,000 pounds of deli meat that may be contaminated with bacteria that can cause a potentially fatal disease, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Monday. The products were distributed to Wal-Marts nationwide, according to the USDA’s website. MORE

VIA: WTVD.COM A 12-year-old Oregon boy had permission to drive the family pickup truck to the end of the driveway to unload trash, but he kept going until he was stopped nearly 100 miles away in Lewis County, Wash. The Clackamas County sheriff’s office says it received a call from the boy’s mother reporting the […]

Newly-formed Tropical Storm Danielle will likely reach hurricane status in the next 24 hours, according to an advisory from the U.S. National Hurricane Center this morning.

Corey Ealons, director of African-American media for the Obama administration, has decided to resign from his post effective immediately. “It is with some sadness, but also great anticipation for the future, that I make my exit from the White House today,” he wrote in an e-mail sent Friday at about 5:30 p.m. “It has been […]