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The Grammy Award winner fell ill on a flight from Los Angeles to Amsterdam, Dutch TV channel RTL reported.

SINCE its introduction in 1964, America’s food stamp program has helped millions of struggling Americans put food on their tables in difficult times. During the recent economic downturn, the number of people in New York City receiving this assistance has grown more than 35 percent. Recipients, however, aren’t allowed to buy everything a grocery store […]

Fueled by hate for homosexuals, a sick crew of Bronx gang members went on a wave of sadistic violence that included forcing a teen to burn his gay lover with cigarettes, cops said Friday.

As one of the keynote speakers here Friday at a state convention billed as the largest Tea Party event ever, Virginia Thomas gave the throng of more than 2,000 activists a full-throated call to arms for conservative principles.

One year has passed since President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

The ex-wife of Bishop Eddie Long, Dabara S. Houston, claimed in court documents that Long abused her during their marriage. Houston said that Long physically abused her when she was seven-and-a-half months’ pregnant with their child.

Television’s most boring show, on television’s most boring station, got an unexpected injection of hot excitement, when a 90-year-old phoned into C-SPAN‘s ‘Washington Journal,’ to voice her opinion on race relations in these United States, and, in the process, blew. our. minds.

A pastor at a church in South Carolina says that he is going to have a rally at the state capitol in Atlanta to demand that Bishop Eddie Long resign as pastor of the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church.

Marcos Colono, a 32-year-old man from Cambridge, Massachusetts has been charged with hacking a man with a knife in an attempt to decapitate him and raping his 11-year-old son. Colono is charged for an August 26th Cambridge home invasion, where he allegedly, forced a 56-year-old  Harvard researcher and his 11-year-old son to lie on top […]

Labyrinthian is a good word to describe the tangle of explanations given by Senate members for failing again on Sept. 29 to fund the settlements of Pigford II and Cobell, the class action discrimination lawsuits filed by black and Indian farmers.