The United Nations has issued a report that survivors of a horrific mass rape attack in eastern Congo last year have suffered reprisals, and a judicial inquiry into the violence has been suspended.  At least 387 people were raped in the Walikale territory in late July and early August last year, including men, children and…

News One is reporting that House Republicans are resisting President Obama’s attempt to stop food companies from advertising junk food to children. The Associated Press reports that some food companies say the government is going too far with guidelines proposed earlier this year by several government agencies. The guidelines would attempt to shield children from…

Fresh from our “Boomerang” file, white supremacist David Duke is considering a run for president of the United States in 2012. It seems that the self-proclaimed “white civil rights activist” has decided to tour the United States to see if he can drum up enough support for a serious campaign. According to the Daily Beast,…

George Jahn of the Associated Press is reporting that illegal immigrants working as domestics in the European Union are often subject to beatings, sexual abuse and overwork while being paid a fraction of what they would be entitled to if employed legally, an EU agency reported Tuesday. The Vienna-based EU Fundamental Rights agency interviewed 72 people working illegally in 10…

MSN is reporting that Academy Award-winning actor Jamie Foxx has been cast as the lead in Quentin Tarantino’s much anticipated reimagined Western Django Unchained. Foxx has been linked to the role of a vengeful slave ever since Will Smith reportedly passed on the project earlier this year — and now he has made his casting official. He tells…

CNN is reporting that ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has launched a pre-emptive strike against Tristane Banon, a 32-year-old French writer, who claims that DSK sexually assaulted her eight years ago. Lawyers for DSK have filed a counterclaim against Banon for “false declarations.”  Strauss-Kahn’s lawyer’s filing was announced shortly after Banon’s lawyer, David Koubbi, said he will…

The Huffington Post is reporting that American tourists on an annual July 4 fishing trip were plunged into the Gulf of California in the middle of the night after a flash storm upended their boat, The Eric, killing at least one U.S. man and leaving seven others missing. The Mexican navy said late Monday that…

Fresh from our “WTH” file, police on Wednesday were investigating allegations that members of a high school wrestling team put a noose on a brown practice dummy, chained a black teammate to a locker and made racial remarks. The boy and his mother told police last week about the alleged May 4 incident, the Los Angeles…

EURweb is reporting that actress Tia Mowry and her husband, Cory Hardrict, welcomed a son Tuesday in Los Angeles. It is the first child for the 32-year-old actress, who stars in BET’s The Game. Hardrict recently appeared in the sci-fi flick Battle Los Angeles.  In August, Mowry will co-star in a reality show on the Style Network…