The Grammys’ embrace of singer Chris Brown, who performed twice on the show and won for best R&B album, drew criticism both before and after the show. The singer, who has a tendency to fly off the handle when he’s criticized but who had mostly kept quiet after the Grammys, expressed himself yesterday on Twitter,…

A new study released by the Pew Center indicates that 1.8 million registered voters in the U.S. have died — yet remain in the system. The study, which was released yesterday, also found that 24 million registered voters in the U.S., which equates to about one in eight, have serious errors and 2.75 million registered…

A controversial “drum major” quote affixed to the side of the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial in Washington, D.C., will be corrected, according to the Washington Post. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar made the announcement on Saturday a few days ahead of the 30-day deadline he’d set for himself. “It’s the right thing to do,…

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum is now the Republican front-runner for the GOP nomination, according to CBS News. A new CBS/New York Times poll shows Santorum leading former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney by three percentage points. Santorum has the support of 30 percent of GOP-primary voters in the poll, following by Romney at 27 percent.…

Rapper Too Short and XXL magazine are apologizing for a controversial video they released last week, according to Allhiphop.com. The rapper, who is known mostly for his sexually explicit lyrics referring to the pimp life, released a video with the magazine in which he gave young boys advice on how to “turn a girl out.”…

A white Texas man is claiming that he was arrested for walking with his goddaughter’s child, who is black and refers to him as her grandfather, according to the Daily News. The man, Scott Henson, who moonlights as a journalist researching the criminal-justice system and writes for his blog Grits for Breakfast, said he was…

The hotel room where singer Whitney Houston died had prescription drugs in it, according to the Huffington Post. Houston, who was pronounced dead at 3:55 p.m. on Saturday, was apparently underwater and unconscious when police found her. The singer had struggled with cocaine, marijuana and pills over the last two decades. “There weren’t a lot…

The Newark, N.J., church where Whitney Houston got her start honored her on Sunday, according to Entertainment Weekly. The New Hope Baptist Church held an early-morning service in which prayers were given for Houston and her family. The pastor, Joe Carter, asked reporters to respect the family’s privacy. “The family shared Whitney with the world,…

President Obama will spell out a plan at Northern Virginia Community College on Monday called the “Community College to Career Fund,” according to the Associated Press. The program, which Obama will need $8 billion to create from Congress, will focus on training 2 million workers in high-growth industries. The program would seek to train workers…