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On the eve of Michaele Salahi’s debut on Bravo’s “The Real Housewives of D.C.” — and five days after her husband, Tareq, threw a glass of wine at another cast member while the housewives were attending Summer TV Press Tour 2010 to promote their new show — America’s favorite alleged White House party crashers have […]
Gov. Paterson is downplaying the new taxes in the freshly completed state budget, but admits at least one will hurt the poor.
ENFIELD, Conn. (AP) — As Omar Thornton prepared to head off to work at a beer distributorship Tuesday morning, his girlfriend sensed something was wrong. “He just kept having this dazed, confused look on his face, and I never saw him like that before,” Kristi Hannah, his girlfriend of eight years, told The Associated Press […]
Yesterday I was invited to the White House to discuss Wall St. reform along with White House officials Corey Ealons, Cecilia Rouse, as well as Howard Professor and contributor to the Grio, Leon Wilmur, and John Simon from Black Enterprise. If you missed the livestream, here is the video. RELATED STORIES Senate Approves $26 Billion […]
There were bitter foes in Bush v. Gore, but neither Ted Olson nor David Boies hesitated at the chance to work together on overturning Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage in California. Olson didn’t like government meddling in people’s private lives, and Boies had a long background with civil-rights litigation in the South that he […]
The Senate on Wednesday cleared the way to provide $10 billion to states and local school districts to prevent teacher layoffs and an additional $16 billion in federal aid to cash-strapped states, and the Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, said she would summon House back from its summer recess to grant final approval to the bill.
By Marcus A. Scott A Southhampton, New York, man is being held without bail after beating his girlfriend’s 17-month-old son to death on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation outside of the Riverside area in Long Island, NY. He is being charged with first-degree manslaughter. Pedro Jones pleaded not guilty on Monday afternoon in Southampton Town Justice […]
A federal judge in San Francisco decided today that gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry, striking down Proposition 8, the voter approved ballot measure that banned same-sex unions.
NEW YORK (AP) — A conservative advocacy group founded by the Rev. Pat Robertson is suing to try to block a planned Islamic community center and mosque near ground zero. The mosque proposal has become a fulcrum for balancing religious freedom and the legacy of the Sept. 11 attacks. It would be two blocks from […]
Two summers ago, north side residents protested a proposed fried chicken restaurant, calling its high-calorie offerings a health hazard to a neighborhood already saturated with fast food.