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  • NEWS STAND: All Eyes on Massachusetts Race to Replace Kennedy, More Men Marrying Up, and Hacks Hacked in China

    DOWN TO THE WIRE TO REPLACE TED The U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts has become a referendum on President Obama’s health care reform plan. Voters went to the polls today to elect a replacement for Sen. Edward “Ted” Kennedy and what had been viewed as a routine election has turned into a close race with…

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  • Wyclef Jean Defends His Foundation

    Haitian-born hip-hop star Wyclef Jean has launched a vigorous defense of his foundation, the Wyclef Jean Foundation, also known as Yéle Haiti. The foundation was the subject of criticism  over the weekend after the celebrity web site The Smoking Gun published documents indicating that a large part of the foundation’s expenses have been payments to…

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  • NEWS STAND: Google Threatens to Exit China, Justice Focuses on Lending Bias

    GOOGLE THREATENS TO EXIT CHINA Google says it may pull out of China after discovering attempts to hack into its accounts that may be linked to the Chinese government. The search company reported that “a primary goal of the attackers was accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists.” Officials say the attack on…

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  • Haiti: Waiting and Worrying

    Haiti’s earthquake decimated the country. And now, as rescue efforts are mobilized from around the world, the roughly two million Haitians living in the Diaspora are playing the waiting game: Waiting to hear from loved ones, scanning Twitter feeds, praying, hoping, worrying. We’d like to hear about your stories. You’ll have to log in first,…

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  • Haiti: How You Can Help

    Relief efforts for Haiti will culminate in a massive telethon this Friday that will be the most widely seen event of its kind, according to MTV. Featuring performances from Los Angeles, New York and London, the telethon will be broadcast through MTV networks available in 640 million homes worldwide, including for the first time China’s…

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  • NEWS STAND: Obama Says No to Ford, New Orleans Power Shift, Racism in Italy

    OBAMA DOESN’T BACK FORD President Obama doesn’t want Harold Ford Jr. to run for the U.S. Senate. The White House has indicated it does not want the former Tennessee Congressman to challenge Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in this year’s Democratic primaries. Ford’s name surfaced last week as a possible opponent to Gillibrand, who was appointed by…

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  • NEWS STAND: Underwear Bomber Indicted, Techies Amped Up Over Google Phone

    “UNDERWEAR BOMBER” INDICTED Federal prosecutors have thrown the book, and then some, at the “underwear bomber” but some GOP politicians don’t think it enough. Umar Farouk Abdulmullatab , who tried to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day, was indicted in six counts by a federal grand jury in…

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  • NEWS STAND: Ebony’s Eunice Johnson Dies, Kenya Ousts Jamaican Cleric

    Ebony’s Eunice Johnson DiesEunice Johnson, the woman who stood alongside John H. Johnson, has died. Mrs. Johnson, who was in her 90s, worked with her husband to build Negro Digest, Jet, and Ebony into the most influential black publications in the post-World War II period. She was instrumental in developing the Ebony Fashion Fair, which…

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  • NEWS STAND: Dems Defend TSA Nominee Southers, Asian-American Gains in New York, Iraqis Angered by Blackwater Decison, Rush Loves U.S. Health Care

    Democratic Defend TSA Nominee Southers Democratic U.S. Senators have come to the defense of Erroll Southers, President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Transportation Security Administration. The nominee, a former FBI agent, had come under fire for inconsistent statements to Congress about accessing the criminal record of his estranged wife’s boyfriend. The inconsistencies were first…

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  • NEWS STAND: Who Lost Abdulmuttalab? Mass Murder, European Style

    Can America catch a bad guy? Any bad guy? For years, the Bush Administration was under fire for letting Osama Bin Ladin slip through its fingers. Now the Obama Administration is catching flak for failing to nail the Underwear Bomber. Driven by Republican accusations of laxity about security, the Obama Administration has gone on the…

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