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(Via CNN) — The top proponent of the new Arizona law targeting the state’s ethnic studies programs defends the controversial measure, which bans ethnic studies classes that “promote resentment” of other racial groups. State Schools Superintendent Tom Horne told CNN’s “American Morning” on Thursday that the legislation is “designed to get schools to teach kids […]
VIA: WNCN.COM As you lie on your pillow at night, you could be sleeping with the enemy. “Somewhere around 85 percent of homes will have detectable dust mites,” Dr. Darryl Zeldin, clinical director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, said. Dust mites may be microscopic, but the health problems they cause for some […]
According to CNN One boy’s cheating of death in an air crash in Libya this week adds another name to a small roll call of aviation disaster sole survivors. The boy, identified as Ruben van Assouw, suffered multiple fractures in his lower limbs when the Afriqiyah Airways Airbus A330-200 crashed Tuesday at Tripoli International Airport […]
New changes in how your hair dresser conducts him or herself may be in effect across the board because Chi-town is already in full effect. So the fact that Illinois legislators passed a law in late April requiring braiders to obtain specialized training and a license may offer some patrons comfort. This could reduce all […]
To celebrate the honor of Iman receiving the Fashion Icon Award at this year’s CFDA’s, Barneys New York creative director Simon Doonan dedicated two of the store’s Madison Avenue window displays to the supermodel and mogul. The display included collages and cutout images of her; while the other showcase a Bruce Weber portrait of Iman […]
VIA: CNN.COM A Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, police officer who told authorities he was shot while on patrol last month has admitted he shot himself intentionally, the city’s police commissioner said Tuesday. Sgt. Robert Ralston reported that on April 5 he saw two African-American males arguing on a train track in West Philadelphia. He told investigators that […]
VIA: WTVD.COM Federal experts say a small earthquake has struck near the South Carolina coast. The U.S. Geological Survey reported the quake occurred near Lincolnville shortly after 5 a.m. Tuesday morning. The quake had a magnitude of 2.8. There have been no reports of damage or injuries. Multiple media outlets reported that residents around Summerville, […]
VIA: WRAL.COM Gas prices are poised to fall as Memorial Day approaches, a welcome change for motorists who have gotten used to seeing increases cut into their summer vacation money. Experts who had been predicting a national average of more than $3 per gallon by Memorial Day now say prices have likely peaked just beneath […]
ON THE GULF OF MEXICO – Political patience is washing away for BP executives who can’t stop a broken underwater well from spewing oil into the Gulf, where crews were trying the latest solution — submerging a second containment box designed to funnel the gusher to a waiting tanker. In back-to-back U.S. Senate inquiries on […]
FROM PEOPLE: Despite the joys of fatherhood, actor Taye Diggs is leaving it up to wife Idina Menzel as to whether there will be a baby number two. “I was in the room when my wife gave birth to Walker [Nathaniel], and after seeing that and going through the nine months of pregnancy with her, […]
From JackandJillPolitics.com: Me? I love tha twitter. For those of you using it to get the latest news and info: you can follow our blog posts at @jjpolitics and my thought stream direct at @ch3ryl. For those who ain’t — whatchu waitin’ for? Twitter is apparently a place we now dominate, which I can attest […]
Reports are surfacing new break throughs concerning the Time Square Bombing. FBI investigators are due to arrive in Pakistan after the US said that the country’s Taleban organisation had been behind the attempt to set off a bomb in Times Square. Rehman Malik, the federal Interior Minister, has said that Pakistan would fully co-operate with […]
