(Taylor Media Services) Popular Rapper Snoop Dogg (real name Calvin Broadus) took the witness stand last week to defend himself against a $22 million lawsuit. Former fan Richard Monroe, Jr. is claiming that Broadus and his bodyguards severely beat ...
Posted Saturday, May 2nd 2009 at 12:28PM
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By Marilyn Kai Jewett (NBNJ Philadelphia Correspondent)
People who feel a major injustice remains uncorrected packed the Church of the Advocate in North Philadelphia recently to celebrate the 55th birthday of Mumia Abu-Jamal and mark the release ...
Posted Saturday, May 2nd 2009 at 12:24PM
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(Taylor Media Services) One of the primary reasons Barack Obama won last November’s presidential election was because of a massive turnout by the nation’s minorities, especially African American women. According to a just-released study by the Pew Re ...
Posted Saturday, May 2nd 2009 at 12:09PM
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(Taylor Media Services) According to a just released 10-year study, Africans have more genetic variation than any other people on Earth. The finding, published Thursday in the online edition of the journal Science, confirms the so-called “Out of Afri ...
Posted Saturday, May 2nd 2009 at 12:08PM
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A friend of my husband is trying to visit his children this week on the west coast. Mind you,( let’s call him) John had discussed the travel plans with the kid’s mom for when was the best time to see the kids prior to going out there. Now it appears ...
Posted Friday, May 1st 2009 at 3:38PM
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State and federal officials intensified their response to the swine flu outbreak on Tuesday, with President Obama asking Congress for $1.5 billion in supplemental funding. The global response included more restrictions on travel to and from Mexico, ...
Posted Wednesday, April 29th 2009 at 11:27AM
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A photo tour of the president’s first 100 days in office and a live broadcast of his news conference tonight on NYTimes.com.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/04/29/us/politics/0429OBAMA_index.html?th&emc=th ...
Posted Wednesday, April 29th 2009 at 11:12AM
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BELGRADE (Reuters) - A Serbian union official who chopped off his finger and ate it in a protest over wages that in some cases have not been paid in years, said Monday he did it to show how desperate he and other workers were. "We, the workers have ...
Posted Tuesday, April 28th 2009 at 12:16AM
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(Taylor Media Services) Grammy-nominated Gospel singer Pastor Timothy Wright died last week apparently as a result of complications from an automobile accident in July of last year which took the lives of his wife Betty, 58, and 14-year-old grandson ...
Posted Monday, April 27th 2009 at 10:31AM
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WASHINGTON – The U.S. declared a public health emergency Sunday to deal with the emerging new swine flu, much like the government does to prepare for approaching hurricanes. Officials reported 20 U.S. cases of swine flu in five states so far, with t ...
Posted Sunday, April 26th 2009 at 4:55PM
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The pressures were already immense when David B. Kellermann was promoted to the top financial position at the mortgage giant Freddie Mac last September. Then they got even worse. Mr. Kellermann’s boss and other top executives were ousted when the T ...
Posted Thursday, April 23rd 2009 at 11:26PM
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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) - A New York lawyer faces charges that she ordered her battling 10- and 12-year-old daughters out of her car. Police in White Plains say it happened Sunday evening in the New York suburb. The girls were allegedly left in the b ...
Posted Thursday, April 23rd 2009 at 8:38PM
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It's no secret that nearly every profession around the globe is feeling the effects of the economic crisis -- even prostitution. In Germany, where the world's oldest profession is legal, prostitutes have created their own version of a stimulus packag ...
Posted Thursday, April 23rd 2009 at 1:50AM
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I know this may be late, but I'm just seeing this email...for those who can...please sign the petition.
Dear ACLU Supporter,
Since the ACLU forced the release of four critical Bush torture memos, the demand for an independent investigation has b ...
Posted Wednesday, April 22nd 2009 at 11:20PM
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April 20 {was} "National Pot Smoking Day." It's a day where people across the world celebrate in the conspicuous consumption of the magical herb, marijuana. It's an unofficial counterculture holiday that is based on the simple concept of smoking some ...
Posted Wednesday, April 22nd 2009 at 9:07AM
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The recent press about United Airlines joining the ranks of other major carriers in establishing a tough policy about seating obese passengers brings up the larger issue of what we can do to stop the epidemic of obesity in this country. As a prevent ...
Posted Wednesday, April 22nd 2009 at 8:48AM
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I was reading an article in the New York Times regarding the CIA's illegal use of torture (waterboarding) on 2 Al Qaeda prisoners and I found it quite unbelievable that it was used 266. I then decided to Google waterboarding and discovered that this ...
Posted Monday, April 20th 2009 at 10:23AM
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Internet service providers want to end the all-you-can-eat plans and get their customers paying à la carte. But they are having a hard time closing the buffet line. Faced with rising consumer protest and calls from members of Congress for new regulat ...
Posted Monday, April 20th 2009 at 9:43AM
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ALIABAD, Afghanistan — The two Army lieutenants crouched against boulders beside the Korangal River. Taliban gunfire poured down from villages and cliffs above, hitting tree branches and rocks and snapping as the bullets passed over the officers’ hel ...
Posted Monday, April 20th 2009 at 9:26AM
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Plane hijacked in Jamaica's Montego Bay; crew held (AP)
AP - A gunman described as "mentally challenged" hijacked a Canadian jet on the tarmac near the resort city of Montego Bay and was holding six crew members hostage after releasing the passen ...
Posted Monday, April 20th 2009 at 8:11AM
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WASHINGTON — The head of the Senate intelligence committee said Thursday that she would hold a hearing to examine the National Security Agency’s interception of domestic communications after new reports that recent wiretapping went beyond what Congre ...
Posted Friday, April 17th 2009 at 10:49PM
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