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Michael Jackson's Burial Site Gets Sprucing Up
Lisa Marie Presley thought the King of Pop’s grave site needed some floral sprucing up and called on fans to show there love with flowers. One guy definitely took her up on the challenge “I know how much he loved and appreciated being showered with gifts and flowers by his fans,” Presley wrote. She suggested…
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Matt Lauer Denies Rolling in The Hay with Whitney Houston's Sister
The internets is abuzz with the rumor that Matt Lauer used to get it on with Whitney Houston’s step sister Alexis. Lauer claims this is absolutely not true In an interview from France, where he is covering the Cannes Film Festival for Today, Lauer told People: “I am living in my apartment with Annette and…
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Obama Upset with BP, Halliburton Over Spill
President Obama isn’t exactly thrilled with BP and Halliburton following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. From Jack Tapper’s Political Punch After being briefed this morning by members of his Cabinet on the latest on the Gulf oil spill, President Obama will make remarks to reporters in which he expresses his “anger and frustration” with the…
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Quick Clips: Map Puts Oil Spill in Perspective
Paul Rademacher provides maps of the spill that will likely make your brain hurt. On April 20, an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon left 17 workers injured and 11 missing and presumed dead. Oil is spilling from a well 5,000 feet below sea level, discharging 200,000 gallons of crude oil a day, according to the…
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Mark Zuckerberg: Privacy Champion
Mark Zuckerberg is a transparency-loving rascal. Saw this over on Gawker, which got its info from Business Insider’s in-depth look at Zuckerberg’s shadiness. Below is the choice meat from the Gawker piece Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his company are suddenly facing a big new round of scrutiny and criticism about their cavalier attitude toward user…
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Frisky Business: New York's Minorities More Likely to Get Searched By Police
If you’re brown in New York, you’re nine times as likely to be frisked as a white person. But, look on the bright side, you’re not any more likely to be arrested! The more than 575,000 stops of people in the city, a record number of what are known in police parlance as “stop and…
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New Jersey Gov. Dumps State's Only Black Supreme Court Justice
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is determined to make the New Jersey Supreme Court more to his liking and did so by replacing John Wallace, a Democrat and the only African American on the bench, with Anne Patterson, a white Republican [A] coalition of African-American leaders blasted Gov. Chris Christie’s decision not to re-nominate state…
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Ghana Receives Top Marks in Press Freedom
In terms of freedom of the press, Reporteurs San Frontiers ranked Ghana the best among African nations in 2009 The Minister of Information John Tia Akologu promised that the government is committed to passing the Freedom of Information law, because the constitution of Ghana guarantees the people, freedom of information. He said: “When the Right…
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