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Couple Arrested In Death Of Adopted Girl Who Died In Rain

Police arrested a Washington couple this week on homicide by abuse and assault charges months after their 13-year-old adopted daughter was found dead at their residence.

Larry P. Williams and Carri D. Williams’ adopted daughter Hana, who was adopted from Ethiopia in 2008 and came to America in search for a better life, was found in the family’s backyard in Sedro Woolley, Wash. naked and face down in mud in May.

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Jul 29, 2011 at 11:32 am

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The Boehner Debt Limit Plan: How It Will Affect African-Americans

As congress still works to agree on a debt limit plan that can satisfy both Democrats and Republicans, many Americans are wondering just how all these plans will affect their everyday lives.

House Speaker John Boehner’s Budget Control Act of 2011 is the current plan that congress will soon vote on. It is estimated to raise the debt limit by $2.5 trillion, and will reduce the deficit by about $915 billion, according

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Jul 28, 2011 at 10:57 am

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Boehner To House GOP On Debt Talks: “Get Your A– In Line”

WASHINGTON — During a closed-door meeting, House Speaker John Beohner spoke to GOP leaders in an attempt to gain support of his debt limit plan, which some Republicans deem skeptical.

“Get your a– in line,” he demanded to the caucus.

The GOP has been quite divided between those who back Boehner’s plan and those — mostly Tea Party members — who argue his plan’s spending reductions are “puny.”

Others have accused Boehner of being

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Jul 27, 2011 at 4:06 pm

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Sharpton Urges African-Americans To Take More Action

In light of the surging wealth disparity and unemployment rate, among other socio-economic issues plaguing the country, Rev. Al Sharpton wrote a column in the Huffington Post, urging Americans —African-Americans in particular — to take more action in challenging the government.

In the column, Sharpton encourages African-Americans to address their issues at the National Action Network’s annual march in Washington on August 27, where Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Jul 19, 2011 at 3:47 pm

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Obama Threatens To Veto GOP’s “Cut, Cap and Balance” Plan

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said he will veto conservative Republicans’ “Cut, Cap and Balance” fiscal plan if it makes it to his desk.

A statement from the White House rejected the plan, which conditions a debt limit hike on a constitutional amendment that would require the government to balance its books each year. The proposal also requires substantial spending cuts and a statutory spending cap as a precondition for

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Jul 15, 2011 at 12:36 pm

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Social Security Cuts To Drive Black Women Into Extreme Poverty

With Social Security possibly on the chopping block in debt talks in Washington, a report reveals that single, elderly, African-American women will be further driven into poverty.

According to the National Women’s Law Center’s analysis of Current Population Survey data shows that if chained CPI, a Social Security COLA is cut, the median benefit for African-American single women seniors will dip below the poverty line.

Currently, the median Social Security benefit for a

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Jul 14, 2011 at 5:21 pm

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Book Calls Obama Liar Over Mom’s Lack Of Health Care Claim

A new book about the life of Barack Obama’s mother is casting doubt on statements shared by the president during his 2008 election campaign and push for health care reform, The New York Times reports.

According to A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother, a biography written by Times reporter Janny Scott, Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham, had health insurance during her 1995 battle with cancer. Such

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Jul 14, 2011 at 7:33 am

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Obama Furiously Walks Out Of Debt Talks: “I Will Not Yield”

WASHINGTON — After tension escalated in Wednesday’s debt limit negotiations, President Obama told Republican lawmakers that he will not yield on reaching a deal that includes a long-term deficit cut.

Republicans said that after a heated disagreement with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), the president “abruptly” walked out of the meeting.

Democratic lawmakers, however, said that Obama gave a lecture to Cantor and Republicans and left the meeting because it had ended,

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Jun 11, 2011 at 8:11 pm

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He Won’t Quit! Weiner Requests Leave Of Absence For Treatment

WASHINGTON — Ignoring calls from several top Democrats for his resignation, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) seems determined to keep his place in Congress. Recent reports indicate that Weiner would soon be checking into a treatment center.

Huffington Post reports:

Weiner’s office put out a statement confirming those reports and announcing that he had requested a “short leave of absence from the House of Representatives so that he can get evaluated and

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Jun 8, 2011 at 2:38 pm

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What?! Delta Charges Returning US Soldiers $2,800 In Baggage Fees

Delta Air Lines is facing intense criticism after it charged nearly $3000 in extra baggage fees to a group of 34 U.S. soldiers returning home from Afghanistan.

In a video released Tuesday, Army Staff Sgt. Robert O’Hair is recorded talking about the incident in which each soldier was charged $200 for having a fourth bag, in spite of an agreement between the United States government and Delta that authorized them

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Obama Declares June African-American Music Month 2011

WASHINGTON — President Obama announced yesterday that June will be African-American Music Appreciation Month .

Read the full proclamation from the President below:

The music of our Nation has always spoken to the condition of our people and reflected the diversity of our Union. African-American musicians, composers, singers, and songwriters have made enormous contributions to our culture by capturing the hardships and

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“I have seen no evidence at all that the senior leadership knew,” Mr. Gates said. “In fact, I’ve seen some evidence to the contrary.”

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