Yahoo Finance is reporting that the number of people seeking unemployment benefits dipped last week, a sign the job market may be improving slowly. The Labor Department says that applications for unemployment benefits edged down 1,000 to a seasonally adjusted 400,000. That’s the lowest level in four months. The previous week’s figure was revised upward…

Mediabistro is reporting that teen phenomenon Myles Miller has been named associate editor at the Huffington Post. The 17-year-old, who has been called “presidential material” by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s office, will be working on the website’s high school vertical, featuring content from high schoolers. Miller started as a youth reporter for Children’s Press…

Yahoo Sports is reporting that football legend Charles Aaron “Bubba” Smith has died. Smith was found dead in his home Wednesday. Known as Bubba Smith, he was a star college player at Michigan State University. He won All-America honors in 1965 and 1966 and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1988.…

Britt Middleton of BET News is reporting that the state of North Carolina has issued an apology to victims who were sterilized under state eugenics laws and is working on a plan to compensate victims. Beginning before World War II and ending in 1977, a total of 7,600 men, women and children as young as…

As if Haiti needed more bad weather, Tropical Storm Emily is heading toward the Dominican Republic and Haiti today. Tropical Storm Emily brushed past Puerto Rico and headed Wednesday toward Haiti, where more than 630,000 people are still without shelter after last year’s earthquake. News One reports that a “steady shield of rain” should reach…

Rush Limbaugh has decided to join the fray in disrespecting the president of the United States. On Tuesday, during his radio talk show, the portly host called President Obama a jackass because of the debt-ceiling agreement. The Huffington Post reports that Limbaugh made the comments while replaying the speech that Obama delivered about the debt…

In the never-ending saga over ex-IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s alleged rape of a West African maid, an ex-lover has come forward to offer “details” of her sex life with DSK. According a West African woman who goes by the name of Marie-Victorine M, DSK was a “physical” lover who never forced her to do anything…

The Huffington Post has picked up a Maynard Institute report that a Chicago news station is under fire for purposely taking the words of a 4-year-old boy out of context to portray him as a future criminal. In a story about violence in Chicago, the reporter asked the boy a series of questions, including what he…

In an article on CNN.com, Lisa Respers France recounts the story of being in a chain restaurant with her husband when a white woman reached out in an attempt to touch her hair because it was “neat.” France’s experience mirrors that of many black women who endure constant questions about their hair, whether “natural” or…

News One is reporting that the new Spider-Man in Marvel Comics’ Ultimate universe is a half-black, half-Hispanic teen named Miles Morales. This historic change to the story line was revealed in a new issue that is being released on Wednesday. Morales takes over Peter Parker’s job after the hero was killed in Ultimate Spider-Man Issue…