WASHINGTON — Why are so many American families trapped in poverty? Of all the explanations offered by Washington’s politicians and economists, one seems particularly obvious in the low-income neighborhoods near the Capitol: because there are so many ...
Posted Tuesday, February 19th 2013 at 11:05AM
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JOHANNESBURG — Mamphela Ramphele, a respected veteran of the struggle against apartheid, announced on Monday that she had formed a new political party to compete against the governing African National Congress, calling on South Africans to “join me o ...
Posted Tuesday, February 19th 2013 at 10:46AM
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The earliest known traditional hats in history were worn in thebes and seen on ancient Egyptian murals. Next there were Phrygian caps that were worn by the freed slaves in Rome, signifying their independence. As the centuries went by, the traditional ...
Posted Friday, February 15th 2013 at 3:32AM
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Wisdom and Revelation
Holy Spirit embraces and hovers over mankind while we sleep. He imparts and recalls dreams that beckon us to pursue Him with all of our heart. Paul prays in Ephesians 1:17–19 that Believers may be enlightened in our understandi ...
Posted Wednesday, February 13th 2013 at 9:28PM
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You’ve probably heard about “pink slime,” the nutritionally questionable, ground beef filler treated with ammonia that has graced school cafeteria and fast food menus for decades. Well, if you thought that was bad, you haven’t seen anything yet.
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Posted Wednesday, February 13th 2013 at 5:58AM
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MEXICO CITY -- Mexican authorities say a 9-year-old girl has given birth in western Mexico and they are looking for the purported father, a 17-year-old boy.
Jalisco state police spokesman Lino Gonzalez says the baby girl was born last week at a hosp ...
Posted Friday, February 8th 2013 at 10:55AM
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OKLAHOMA CITY — ... Sweet Brown made her appearance on News Channel 4 and since the video went viral, her life has taken a turn. She now has her own website, SweetBrownApproved.com. Sweet Brown said, “This guy, Clay and his friend Bryson had came t ...
Posted Tuesday, February 5th 2013 at 10:51PM
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January 31, 2013. Washington, D.C.—Today, the Immigration Policy Center held a tele-briefing to discuss who the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. are and what lessons we've learned from previous broad legalization programs. The ce ...
Posted Friday, February 1st 2013 at 12:09AM
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January 28, 2013. "Patients who undergo amputation often feel sensation where the missing limb was, as if it's still there. The syndrome is called phantom limb. It's as if the body can't accept that a terrible trauma has occurred. The mind is trying ...
Posted Thursday, January 31st 2013 at 11:52PM
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*In my experience, a lot of black women have shared their happiness with their curves. These women have hips and butt reminiscent of The Commodores “Brick House.” But, some of them reap the curvaceous benefits from b ...
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Posted Saturday, January 26th 2013 at 1:41AM
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Nearly 44 years after Martin Luther King's death, we still deal with racism. Use our study Battling Racism to learn from King's life.
The truth of what he lived and preached.
Overview
During the 1960s, Martin Luther King Jr. was jailed, ...
Posted Friday, January 25th 2013 at 12:31AM
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(CNN) - Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, is laying out elements of his proposal to reform the immigration system, which he pitches as much-needed modernization for the outdated system.
Rubio, who was elected in 2010 to his first U.S. Senate term, tol ...
Posted Thursday, January 24th 2013 at 2:33AM
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Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o admitted to Katie Couric he answered questions about his "dead," online girlfriend even after he received a call Dec. 6 from a woman posing as the fake person.
Te'o also maintained he played no part in the hoax.
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Posted Thursday, January 24th 2013 at 2:21AM
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Republican congressional critics sparred Wednesday over her handling of the deadly September terrorist attack in Libya. FULL STORY | 'WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE?' GOES VIRAL
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Posted Thursday, January 24th 2013 at 1:58AM
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You need to see this; they beat the crap out of this kid!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkJu2Mt7dAM&sns=em
Ahmed Dogan, leader of a liberal party which represents the Turkish minority in Bulgaria, survived the astonishing assassination attem ...
Posted Monday, January 21st 2013 at 2:05PM
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WASHINGTON -- Less than a month after President Barack Obama won his second term, the National Urban League summoned Bernard Anderson to a meeting in the capital. The invitation was no surprise. Anderson is giant: an economist and prominent author, t ...
Posted Friday, January 18th 2013 at 1:38PM
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ALGIERS, Algeria -- The bloody three-day hostage standoff at a Sahara natural gas plant took a dramatic turn Friday as Algeria's state news service reported that nearly 100 of the 132 foreign workers kidnapped by Islamic militants had been freed.
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Posted Friday, January 18th 2013 at 1:25PM
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(HealthDay News) -- Some children who are diagnosed with autism at an early age will ultimately shed all signs and symptoms of the disorder as they enter adolescence or young adulthood, a new analysis contends. Whether that happens because of aggres ...
Posted Friday, January 18th 2013 at 1:20PM
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(HealthDay News) -- When people submit personal genetic material for scientific research they expect to remain anonymous, but a new study demonstrates that the privacy of male volunteers in particular could be breached. In a report that appears in t ...
Posted Friday, January 18th 2013 at 1:17PM
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NEW YORK (AP) — Two men had recently bought a house together in San Francisco, and the neighbors were annoyed. The men were entertaining “a very suspicious mixture of people,” the neighbors wrote, asking: “How can we improve the neighborhood?”
“Yo ...
Posted Friday, January 18th 2013 at 8:48AM
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Protesters from Ukraine-based rights group FEMEN staged a topless demonstration against the Vatican’s increasingly hostile stance on gay rights this weekend.
The four women, whose torsos were inked with messages like “In Gay We Trust” and “Shut Up ...
Posted Friday, January 18th 2013 at 8:43AM
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — A story about Manti Te’o‘s girlfriend dying of leukemia, which the Notre Dame All-American credited with inspiring him as he led the Fighting Irish to the BCS title game, turned out to be a hoax apparently perpetrated against ...
Posted Friday, January 18th 2013 at 8:40AM
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January 17, 2013---Woods, 37, has enlisted Elin’s brother to help win her back, a source close to the golf superstar, told Jose Lambiet’s Gossip Extra. The former No. 1 golfer in the world, who lives in Jupiter Island, has been begging older brother ...
Posted Thursday, January 17th 2013 at 4:27PM
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January 16, 2013 ---2 Live Crew alum Luther Campbell has jumped into the debate over Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained.” In an op-ed for the Miami New Times, the former rapper weighs in on Spike Lee, who has publicly taken issue with Tarantino’s ...
Posted Thursday, January 17th 2013 at 4:20PM
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How I'd love to not think about Lance Armstrong. Again. Ever. But I live in Austin. And have lived here since Willie was singing at the Armadillo World Headquarters and George W. Bush was skipping out on National Guard service. We have a bikeway her ...
Posted Thursday, January 17th 2013 at 8:59AM
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