ESPN is reporting that seven weeks into the NFL lockout, players have an early triumph over the owners in court. U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson ordered an immediate end to the lockout Monday, siding with the players in their bitter fight with the owners over how to divide the $9 billion business. Owners imposed…

Fresh from our “Us or them?” file, Paul Duggan and Clarence Williams of the Washington Post are reporting that there was a stabbing at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., yesterday during African-American Family Day. The victim was identified by police only as “a young male, possibly a juvenile.” A zoo spokewoman said that the…

Newsone is reporting at least 500 people died in religious rioting that followed Nigeria’s presidential election, a civil rights group said Sunday, as volatile state gubernatorial elections loom this week. Meanwhile, police in the northern state of Bauchi said that at least 11 recent college graduates who helped run polling stations as part of the…

News outlets are reporting that NATO tried to assassinate Muammar Qaddafi yesterday in a raid on his Tripoli compound. Some U.S. lawmakers have been pushing for more involvement in Libya, namely Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona and Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, along with independent Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut. The political version…

Black Voices is reporting that Democratic Party insiders say the Democratic National Committee awards few contracts to companies controlled by racial-minority groups, despite repeated pledges to increase business to such firms. Instead Democratic leaders claim progress by leaning on a broader definition of “minority contractors,” which includes white women, the disabled and the gay community,…

Video of a transgender woman being beaten by two teenagers in Maryland has gone viral on the Web. The victim, 22-year-old Chrissy Lee Polis, who is transgender, told the Baltimore Sun that the incident started as she was trying to use the restroom at the McDonald’s in Rosedale, Md. Apparently the teen girls were upset…

Richard Wolf and David Jackson of USA Today are reporting that the annual White House Easter Egg Roll will be held today on the South Lawn. The event dates to Rutherford B. Hayes’ administration, when it was moved to the South Lawn from the grounds of the U.S. Capitol. Lawmakers there had banished it because…

ABC News is reporting that the body of missing honors student Phylicia Barnes has been found in the Susquehanna River. Her body was recovered along with that of an unidentified male today. Preliminary autopsies failed to determine what caused the deaths of Barnes or the unidentified male, said Terrence Sheridan, superintendent of the Maryland State…

Documentary-style television programming has been around for decades — like PBS’s ’70s-era An American Family — but many refer to MTV’s The Real World as the show that created the model for contemporary reality shows. What started out as a good idea — an inside look at the complicated lives of a diverse group of…

Funk superstar Cee Lo Green is in the news for the wrong reason. Fresh from our “Celebrities behaving badly” folder, Grammy Award-winning musician Cee Lo Green reportedly went off on promoters during his set at the Coachella Music Festival, a three-day music festival held in California. Lyndsey Parker reported that on the first day of…