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A man was arrested this morning after authorities found a suspicious looking package inside his car near the Pentagon.
Unpopular Republican Ohio governor John Kasich is proposing an $8 billion cut from his state’s 2011-13 budget. Despite the cut, reports indicate that it increases state spending by five billion dollars. The Republican-controlled state House and Senate have already passed versions of the budget. Final passage is scheduled to come at the end of the […]
Many know Montel Williams as a pitchman for several products, and for his nationally syndicated television talk show. But Williams will now be entering a new field as he’s opening a medical marijuana dispensary in Sacramento, California. In a news conference this past weekend, Williams spoke about his battles with multiple sclerosis and how marijuana […]
WASHINGTON — Islamic radicalization in prisons continues to be a concern among law enforcement officials across the U.S., and countering it should not be a partisan issue, the top Republican on the House Homeland Security said Wednesday. Rep. Peter King led the second in what he has promised to be a series of hearings on […]
New York is on the verge of becoming the sixth state in the union to legalize gay marriage, as soon as this week. The State Senate is one vote away from passing the law which was shot down two years ago in a Democratic-led Senate. In two years, opinion amongst New York state residents has […]
NewsOne’s contributing blogger Dr. Boyce Watkins recently wrote a story revealing that 38.3 percent of African Americans say they’ve lost their job at some point in the last three years. The survey, conducted by YourBlackWorld.com, showed that although 16 percent of those surveyed were able to find another job, 88 percent say they were unable […]
Writer Earl Ofari Hutchinson tackled the topic of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s refusal to confront the racist past of his Mormon religion, in an op-ed on The Grio today. Hutchinson takes us back to the Mormons long standing purported curse of Ham teachings about Blacks, which justifies the enslavement of Blacks in many Mormon […]
According to data from last year’s Census, the Black population in a number of Brooklyn neighborhoods like Fort Greene and Clinton Hill has decreased by one-third over the last decade. NY1 reports: The findings also reflect a trend in black migration to the suburbs. New York City’s black population declined by 2 percent. It is […]
House Speaker John Boehner warned President Obama in a letter Tuesday that he may face legal repercussions for issuing U.S. military involvement in Libya without authorization from Congress. Boehner requested Obama to justify U.S. involvement, and warned the President that he may be in violation of the 1973 War Powers Resolution if he does not […]
WASHINGTON — House Democratic colleagues of scandal-scarred Rep. Anthony Weiner are looking for him to step down this week amid a growing chorus for him to resign. Even President Barack Obama has suggested he should leave.