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VIA OUTSIDE THE BELTWAY: Hillary Clinton’s Congo blow-up is a story that just won’t go away. Even those sympathetic to Obama and Clinton, like Jon Stewart, are having a field day with this. Mrs. Clinton’s answer on Monday has quickly become the No. 1 sound bite from her trip. Her whole seven-nation Africa tour, which […]
VIA WASHINGTON POST: PORTSMOUTH, N.H., Aug. 11 — President Obama began a personal effort Tuesday to reclaim momentum for his health-care initiative with a direct rebuttal of what he called “scare tactics,” rumors and misrepresentations. Senior adviser David Axelrod said the president had for weeks been “relishing” the opportunity to engage with people to defend […]
VIA STARPULSE: Jennifer Hudson has given birth to a baby boy, according to reports. The singer/actress and her fiance David Otunga welcomed little David Daniel Otunga, Jr. on Monday night, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The tot is the couple’s first. Hudson never confirmed her pregnancy news but reportedly staged a baby shower at a […]
VIA USA TODAY: A growing dispute about whether radio stations should pay royalties to artists when their music is aired may be temporarily eclipsed by a potentially precedent-setting fight about radio stations’ public-service obligations. Lobbyists and activists are preparing to descend on the Federal Communications Commission after the agency said it will accept comment by […]
(Guadalajara, Mexico) — President Obama is pledging that the U.S. will be a full partner with Mexico in combating drug trafficking. He made the statement at a news conference with the leaders of Mexico and Canada as a North American leadership summit ended in Guadalajara, Mexico Monday. Obama also said it is important to “curb […]
A love making session in a holy place of worship has cost a Nigerian couple a little coin. The “Daily Telegraph” reports that Tolu and Bunmi Akintepe were ordered to pay more than $150 to their local church in the town of Lagos after they were caught having sex on the altar. The couple has […]
VIA CNN: A health care town hall meeting in Florida on Thursday dissolved into bouts of heckling and violent pushing and shoving among attendees. The meeting in Tampa, which featured Democratic Congresswoman Kathy Castor and Florida State Representative Betty Reed, was another example of the tense battle lines that have been created in the passionate […]
VIA CBS NEWS: Divers pulled a helicopter and four more bodies out of the murky Hudson River on Sunday in their search for victims, wreckage and explanations from a midair collision of a sightseeing helicopter and a small plane that killed nine people. The dead from Saturday’s crash include three fathers and their three teenage […]
(Philadelphia, PA) — Organizers of the Ebony Fashion Fair have canceled the annual fashion showcase this year due to the economic slowdown. Staged annually in Philadelphia or New Jersey for 50 years, the fashion show that caters to African-American audiences, hopes to return in the fall of 2010. The event has raised more than $55 […]
(Cambridge, MA) — A second Harvard University professor has accused the Cambridge Police Department of racism. S. Allen Counter wrote about his arrest for assault and battery in an editorial in last week’s edition of “The Bay State Banner.” His comments follow last month’s arrest of African-American scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. Gates claimed he […]