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WASHINGTON — Stepping up the pressure on Goldman Sachs two days after its executives were grilled and publicly rebuked by lawmakers, the Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation of the Wall Street powerhouse over mortgage securities deals it arranged.

<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 482px" VIA: NationalGraduateUniv.Com Dr. Dorothy Height was laid to rest today, and I was honored to be able to celebrate her life. The Washington D.C. National Cathedral was full of people thankful to share in the celebration of Dr. Height’s life. Ceremonies commenced with the Howard University choir as the clergy […]

VIA: WTVD.COM John Edwards’ mistress said the former presidential candidate’s wife didn’t know about the full extent of their relationship until after he gave an interview to ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff admitting the affair. “She didn’t know until after the interview,” Rielle Hunter told Oprah Winfrey about Elizabeth Edwards in quotes provided Wednesday by […]

From the Huffington Post: Finally, the oft-rumored “Whitey tape” has surfaced in the form of a video of President Barack Obama attempting to get some vital portions of the coalition that put him in office in 2008 to maybe get interested in voting again in 2010. That coalition: people who voted for the first time […]

VIA: WTVD.COM The homeless man lay face down, unmoving, on the sidewalk outside an apartment building, blood from knife wounds pooling underneath his body. One person passed by in the early morning. Then another, and another. Video footage from a surveillance camera shows at least seven people going by, some turning their heads to look, […]

From HuffingtonPost.com: Rush Limbaugh has written an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal titled “Liberals and the Violence Card.”

VIA: CNN.COM When Godfrey Davies learned he needed surgery to remove polyps blocking his nasal airways, the self-described bargain shopper set out on a mission to find an affordable surgeon. He quickly learned a good deal is hard to find. “The total numbers they were throwing at me were just incredible. I couldn’t believe it,” […]

NORFOLK, Virginia — Eleven suspected Somali pirates accused in separate attacks on two U.S. Navy ships off the coast of Africa were indicted in federal court on Friday.

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From the NY Times: The sudden closing of the Harlem School of the Arts this month is proving to be temporary: The mayor and other city officials and a host of donors have stepped in to resuscitate the storied and fiscally troubled Harlem institution, and it is to reopen on Saturday.

FROM RAP-UP: It’s not often you see Lauryn Hill out and about, but leave it to TMZ to find the notoriously press-shy star on the streets of Manhattan while leaving the Tanzania Education Trust New York Gala on Monday (April 19). Ms. Hill was friendly and cordial to the cameras, even laughing at times. When […]

If you’ve been following the latest in entertainment news than you may agree that there has been a lot of sideline teaming up of mistresses and wives, or x loves and current beaus. The queen of media Oprah Winfrey is certainly not to be out done as she snags the first exclusive televised interview with […]