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Maybe the language lovers who looked up “refudiate” this summer wanted to refute or repudiate its existence as a real word.

Morrissey described the people of China as a subspecies because of the way they treat animals, and he is is standing by his remarks.

As the nation’s largest peacetime jobs program – the U.S. Census 2010 effort – winds down and its temporary workforce continues to join the ranks of the unemployed, a growth in private sector jobs was not enough to keep the unemployment rate from climbing slightly – one-tenth of a percentage point to 9.6 percent – […]

The prospect of finally fixing America’s public schools looks better now than ever, but there’s still a chance that this golden economic and moral opportunity could slip away.

President Barack Obama will call on Congress to pass new tax breaks that would allow businesses to write off 100 percent of their new capital investments through 2011, the latest in a series of proposals the White House is rolling out in hopes of jump-starting economic growth ahead of the November elections.

After spending about two weeks in the hospital for respiratory problems, reports of Albertina Walker’s passing have been running rampant. However, they are not true. The Gospel great and founder of The Caravans is currently in ICU, and rumors about her passing gained momentum over the weekend. On Saturday (September 4th), Walker posted on her […]

A fired-up President Obama used a Labor Day address to roll out a new jobs program – and to trash opponents he says have called him “a dog.”

Reducing the incidence of heart disease in the high-risk African-American population in Indiana is the aim of a new $1.5 million grant at Purdue University.

The U.S. commander in Afghanistan on Monday criticized a Florida church’s plan to burn copies of the Quran on September 11, warning the demonstration “could cause significant problems” for American troops overseas.