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The Hoffman Sisters Win Season 14 of 'The Amazing Race'
While folks are fixated on reality star Nene Leakes’ latest Celebrity Apprentice debacle, CBS is reporting that LaKisha Hoffman and Jennifer Hoffman, sisters from Chicago, won Season 14 of CBS’s The Amazing Race adventure reality show, pocketing $1 million in the process. The siblings were able to ride past Harlem Globetrotters teammates Nathaniel “Big Easy”…
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Jonathan Capehart: Bobby Jindal Plays With Birthers
The Washington Post’s Jonathan Capehart takes Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal to task for supporting a Birther bill instead of rejecting it. Jindal, who legally changed his birth name, released his long-form birth certificate after Baton Rouge newspaper the Advocate ran an editorial saying, “Piyush Amrit Jindal is the last man in America who should give…
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Newt Gingrich to Announce 2012 Presidential Bid on Wednesday
The Washington Post is reporting that a spokesman for Newt Gingrich says that the former House speaker will announce Wednesday that he is running for president. Rick Tyler said that Gingrich will make the announcement by Facebook and Twitter. He will give an interview to Fox News later that night. Gingrich will offer his first…
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'Thor,' 'Fast Five' and 'Jumping the Broom' Top Hollywood Weekend Box Office
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that the Hollywood box office was painted black this weekend with Thor “Fast Five and Jumping the Broom taking the top slots. Amy Kaufman reports that the 3-D film Thor — starring Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Hopkins, Natalie Portman, Renee Russo and Idris Elba as Heimdall — raked in an…
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VIDEO: Obama: Osama bin Laden Raid Was Worth the Risk
CNN is reporting that in an interview with 60 Minutes, President Barack Obama said that sending U.S. troops on a dangerous mission to get Osama bin Laden was worth the risks, even though it was not certain that the al-Qaida leader was in the Pakistani compound. “This was still a 55-45 situation,” Obama told CBS.…
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Funeral Services Held for Phylicia Barnes
Funeral services were held for Phylicia Barnes, the Monroe, N.C., teen who went missing while visiting her half sister in Baltimore. Barnes’ body was pulled from the Susquehanna River on April 22. Barnes, an honors student, was 16 when she went missing Dec. 28, 2010. She had been the subject of a multijurisdictional missing-persons investigation…
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Albert Haynesworth Is Just Not That Into You
Washington Redskins player — aka NFL bust — Albert Haynesworth has an interesting defense for the sexual-abuse charge he was hit with back in February for allegedly fondling a waitress at the W Hotel in Washington, D.C. Apparently Haynesworth told the investigator that he doesn’t “even like black girls,” and that the waitress is mad…
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Toronto Cop's Comments Spur 'SlutWalk' Protests
Fresh from our “Isn’t it 2011?” file, MSNBC is reporting that an international series of protests known as SlutWalks, sparked by a Toronto police officer’s flippant comment that women should avoid dressing like “sluts” to avoid being raped or victimized, is taking root in the United States. The article reports that the police officer made…
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On the Set With 'Jumping the Broom'
It’s August in New York, and the set of Jumping the Broom is buzzing with the usual suspects (the cast and crew) and some unusual suspects (Precious’ Gabourey Sidibe and various onlookers). Everyone’s watching Salim Akil, the film’s director, climb onto a crane to film Loretta Devine — aka Mrs. Taylor, aka Laz Alonso’s movie…
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Tucson Students Storm Board Meeting, Defend Ethnic-Studies Program
Fresh from our “We knew this was coming” file, ColorLines is reporting that Arizona’s attempt to dismantle Tucson’s ethnic-studies program was dealt a blow Tuesday when students rose up and took over a school board meeting where a resolution to determine the fate of the program was up for discussion. The Tucson school board was…
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