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From HuffingtonPost.com: This week Congress will consider legislation to reauthorize extended unemployment benefits for the rest of the year. It’s going to be an epic fight: Republicans in the Senate will likely do everything they can to stand in the way of a bill projected to add $123 billion to the deficit, forcing Dem leadership […]
There is a nation wide campaign going around to stop bullying and with good cause. Recently a young girl in high school was jumped by some fellow classmates and violated as the girls proceeded to slash the victim’s face with a razor. This took place on school grounds so what are the school officials going […]
From Gawker.com: Meet Ardi Rizal, a two-year-old Sumatran baby who smokes some forty cigarettes a day. The government has offered to buy his parents a car if he stops, but they claim he gets too angry without smokes. Plus, he looks fine!
NEW ORLEANS — Four conservative activists accused of trying to tamper with the phones in Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office pleaded guilty Wednesday to misdemeanor charges of entering federal property under false pretenses.
VIA: WTVD.COM Police say four upstate New York teenagers who tried to hold their breath for the time it took their car to go a third of a mile were hurt when the driver fainted. Authorities say three 19-year-old men and a 16-year-old boy were traveling together late Monday night when they decided to try […]
BALTIMORE (AP) — African-American business community leader and former Parks Sausage Co. chief executive officer Raymond V. Haysbert Sr. has died at age 90.
Jamaican security forces on Monday raided the stronghold of a powerful alleged drug kingpin wanted by the United States, causing casualties as the island’s crisis caused growing alarm. Backed by troops and loud helicopters, police stormed an impoverished neighborhood of western Kingston where reputed gang leader Christopher “Dudus” Coke is holed up, a day after […]
In the first trial stemming from the shootings of four college-age friends in a Newark schoolyard nearly three years ago, a jury on Monday returned guilty verdicts for three murders and one attempted murder after less than a day of deliberations. The jury in State Superior Court here convicted Rodolfo Godinez, a 26-year-old gang member […]
Our friends at the White House Flickr posted all-new, behind-the-scenes photos from the State Dinner. Check out the decor, the dinner discussions and the president’s dancing face.
At Google’s annual I/O conference on Thursday, the search giant announced that it is leading a group of companies, including Sony and Intel, in an effort called Google TV. Google’s Android software, originally developed for smartphones, will power the new service, set to run on a range of high-definition TVs and devices that connect to […]
From TheRoot.com: They were armed to the teeth. They were mad. They gathered at public buildings, guns tucked into their waistlines, demanding limited governmental authority and the right to self-determination.