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Mom-in-Chief: First Lady Michelle Obama Promotes Breast-Feeding
First lady of the United States Michelle Obama’s quest for the improvement of health continues. Politics Daily is reporting that Mrs. Obama will be speaking out about removing barriers to breast-feeding as a way to reduce childhood obesity. Babies that are breast-fed are less likely to be obese. This comes as the Obama administration in…
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Iranian Lawmakers Call for Opposition Leaders to Be Tried and Put to Death
The Associated Press is reporting that hard-line Iranian lawmakers called on Tuesday for the country’s opposition leaders to face trial and be put to death, a day after clashes between opposition protesters and security forces left one person dead and dozens injured. Tens of thousands of people turned out for the opposition rally Monday in…
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VIDEO: On-Air Reporter Branson Appears to Have Mild Stroke During Grammys
A CBS Los Angeles reporter Serene Branson had what appears to be a mild stroke on air during live coverage of the Grammy Awards on Sunday evening. Branson’s speech became garbled and incoherent as she appeared to be struggling to maintain her poise. CBS issued the following statement about the incident: “Serene Branson was examined…
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Ciao Bello: Has Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi's Sordid Past Caught Up With Him?
MSNBC is reporting that an Italian judge on Tuesday ordered Premier Silvio Berlusconi to stand trial on charges that he paid for sex with a 17-year-old Moroccan girl and then tried to cover it up. Judge Cristina Di Censo handed down the indictment setting the trial date for April 6. Recently, Berlusconi has stood trial…
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Lani Guinier: The 'Two Races' Dilemma
In a New York Times op-ed, the Bennett Boskey Professor of Law at Harvard Law School takes on opponents of the Education Department’s new mixed-race categories who see them as discriminatory … Excerpt: Until I went to junior high school I was interracial. I would say, if asked, “My mother is white and my father…
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Michael Baisden: Jury Trial Set in Copyright-Infringement Case
Author and nationally syndicated broadcast personality Michael Baisden is headed to court over a copyright-infringement lawsuit. Documents filed in the lawsuit allege that I’m Ready Productions, Inc., Image Entertainment, Inc., ALW Entertainment, Inc., Je’Caryous Johnson and Gary Guidry conspired to tour a stage play without Baisden’s permission and sold DVDs based on Baisden’s best-selling novels,…
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Blackout: By 2014, Blacks Won't Be D.C. Majority
MSNBC is reporting that by 2014, blacks will no longer be the majority in Washington, D.C. The city dubbed the “Chocolate City” because of its teeming black population will not even be the milk chocolate city, according to Benjamin Orr, a research analyst at the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program. Orr told the Washington Post,…
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Mubarak Gravely Ill?
NECN is reporting that state-run media are disputing reports that former President Hosni Mubarak is gravely ill. Headlines are popping up across the Web saying that Mubarak fainted before his speech on Thursday, is suffering from a chronic disease and is now in a coma. An Egyptian newspaper had reported that Mubarak had slipped into…
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Valentine's Day: First Lady Obama Offers Words of Wisdom
In response to a question from an Associated Press reporter about the first couple’s strong union, first lady Michelle Obama responded, “I think it’s a lot of laughter.” She continued, “I think in our house we don’t take ourselves too seriously, and laughter is the best form of unity, I think, in a marriage. So…
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Political Tempest: Tea Party Shakes Up Republican Party
News agency AFP is examining how the Republican Party will respond to a series of surprise setbacks, some suffered at the hands of their own “archconservative political shock troops” in the Tea Party. “We’re in a new era,” House Speaker John Boehner told reporters, shrugging off his woes as the new majority’s growing pains. “That…
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