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A Kentucky doctor is charged with sodomy after police said he sexually assaulted a female patient. According to arrest records, Dr. Ashok Alur admitted to the act.

The city has told 200 families on the brink of homelessness to fend for themselves in an experiment that has cruelly turned them into virtual lab rats.

Feds claim men lied under oath about convention center shooting. Two New Orleans police officers were charged Thursday with lying under oath about the shooting death of a man outside the city’s convention center in Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath, the latest case generated by a broad Justice Department probe of the police department.

Earl Ofari Hutchinson has a good article at the Grio on Kentucky GOP Senate candidate, Rand Paul and his relationship to the white supremacist community. Rand Paul was previously criticized for having a white supremacist, Chris Hightower, as a campaign operative and for criticizing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and his father, Ron Paul […]

According to the New York Times, Rahm Emmanuel will be resigning his post as White House Chief Of Staff and announcing his run for Mayor of Chicago this Friday. President Obama will give his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, a send-off Friday as Mr. Emanuel officially announces his departure from the West Wing to run […]

Comedian Greg Giraldo died Wednesday (September 29) at age 44 from a reportedly accidental prescription-drug overdose. Giraldo had been hospitalized in New Brunswick, New Jersey, after he overdosed on prescription pills last weekend. According to TMZ, the overdose was not a suicide attempt.

Worth an estimated $2.1bn, Aliko Dangote is one of the richest men in Africa.

Spencer LeGrande says he decided to speak out after seeing others come forward with their stories.

Fox 5 Atlanta has released more footage from their interview with Jamal Parris, who has accused Bishop Eddie Long of sexual coercion. In the interview, he talks about his relationship with Bishop Eddie Long and the trips and gifts he was given. He also said, he began having sex with Bishop Eddie Long after he […]

President Obama and I went to school together. Our daughters do not. While Malia and Sasha are being educated at one of the most prestigious schools in the country, the Sidwell Friends School, my daughter and her brother attend E.L. Haynes, a Washington, DC Public Charter School after spending their early elementary years at Watkins […]