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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 […]
(Washington, DC) — Sonia Sotomayor has been sworn in as the 111th justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. In an historic event in the nation’s capital on Saturday, Sotomayor became the first Hispanic and only the third woman to ever serve on the nation’s highest court. President Obama nominated the 55-year-old federal appeals court judge […]
(Washington, DC) — President Obama is in Mexico to participate in a two-day North American leadership summit. Trade, immigration and violent drug trafficking are topping the agenda. Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s administration is dealing with a rising tide of drug-related violence as he tries to crack down on powerful cartels. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper […]
(Washington, DC) — The U.S. Senate is poised to refuel the “Cash For Clunkers” program by pumping in an extra two billion dollars. The effort hit a little detour last weekend when it ran out of cash. The House quickly reacted by moving billions from one part of the economic stimulus program into the “Clunkers” […]
The William J. Clinton Foundation and two drug manufacturers have announced plans to reduce the cost of HIV/AIDS treatments for developing nations. Former President Bill Clinton has announced drugmakers Pfizer and Matrix Labs will substantially reduce the cost of four, second-line antiretroviral therapies. The price cuts will save a combined 400-million dollars over the next […]
VIA CNN: The Senate confirmed Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court nomination Thursday by a 68 to 31 vote, making her the first Hispanic on the high court. Sotomayor’s confirmation also makes the 55-year-old federal appeals court judge the 111th person to sit on the Supreme Court, and the third woman justice. The confirmation was read […]