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Billy Clint to the Rescue! Freed US Journalists Back Home
From CNN: Two American journalists, detained in North Korea since March, arrived Wednesday morning in California after former President Clinton helped secure their release. An aircraft carrying Clinton, Euna Lee and Laura Ling touched down shortly before 6 a.m. PT (9 a.m. ET) amid tight security at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank outside Los Angeles.…
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Man Charged in Death of Ex-Champ Forrest
From ESPN: ATLANTA — A 20-year-old Atlanta man was charged Tuesday with murder in the shooting death of ex-boxing champion Vernon Forrest, although authorities said they do not believe he was the triggerman. Demario Ware was also charged with aggravated assault and armed robbery, Atlanta police Lt. Keith Meadows said. The 38-year-old Forrest was shot…
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Federal Appeals Court Revives Suit Against Capitol Police
From the AP: A federal appeals court on Friday revived a discrimination lawsuit brought by more than 200 black police officers who claim they were mistreated by white supervisors with the U.S. Capitol Police. The black officers had sued in 2001, charging white senior officers had created a hostile work environment by regularly referring to…
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So You Think You Want to Dance?
“The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.” — Mikhail Baryshnikov As reality TV shows go, So You Think You Can Dance is the unlikeliest of hits: No one’s throwing temper tantrums on the Fox show, no one’s serving up diva ‘tude or pursuing world domination through Machiavellian manipulations. There are…
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GOP Gears Up to Debate on Sotomayor; Dust Off 'Wise Latina' for 47237428 Time
From the Washington Post: As the Senate prepared to debate the Supreme Court nomination of Sonia Sotomayor on Tuesday, the Republican leadership sought to rally opposition to President Obama’s nominee on grounds that she represents a dangerous new standard of judicial “empathy” rather than impartiality in deciding cases. In a morning floor speech ahead of…
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Has Obama's Mouth Written a Check His Tax Pledge Can't Cash?
From CNN: “Read my lips: No new taxes.” That famous phrase from George H.W. Bush came as he accepted his party’s presidential nomination at the Republican National Committee convention in 1988. At the time, it was exactly the red meat Republicans were looking for. But campaigning and governing are two very different things. Bush was…
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VIDEO: Healthcare Lacks for Haiti's Expectant Mothers
From Al Jazeera: Every year more than half a million women across the world die while giving birth, most of them from developing countries. In Haiti, women suffer from the highest maternal mortality rate in the Western hemisphere. Violence, political chaos and insufficient international aid have hampered even the most basic healthcare.Al Jazeera’s Teresa Bo…
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Should Plax's Stupidity Keep Him from Playing Ball?
From the Washington Post: Not surprisingly, a New York grand jury indicted Plaxico Buress on weapons charges Monday. Mr. Burress will most certainly be sent to jail. It’s just a matter of how long he’ll have to stay. Clearly, there is no need to debate the New York State laws; they are what they are…
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The Juice Still Has Shake: Court Considers Releasing Simpson
From NewsOne: A trio of Nevada Supreme Court justices focused Monday on whether O.J. Simpson and a former golfing buddy received a fair trial in a gunpoint hotel room heist and whether the case was so unique that the two men should be freed from prison while their appeals are considered. “This is post-conviction. That’s…
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Naomi Sims, the First Black 'Supermodel', Dead at 61
From Examiner: The first African American model to grace the cover of ‘Ladies Home Journal’ has died of cancer at age 61. She has also been dubbed the first African American ‘supermodel.’ She was born in Mississippi and grew up as a foster child in Pittsburgh. Sims modeled in the late 1960s, and according to…
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