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President Obama Ready to Bypass Congress
In an effort to close the gap between rich and poor Americans, President Barack Obama is poised to take unilateral action, the Associated Press reported Sunday. The president will face a fractious Congress when he delivers Tuesday’s State of the Union address, but he will seize the moment to demand expanded economic opportunity and seek…
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Ride Along Cruisin’ at No. 1
Ride Along cruised to the No. 1 spot at the box office for the second weekend in a row, earning $21.2 million and leaving its competitors the dust, the Daily News reported Sunday. The Universal Pictures buddy comedy, co-starring Kevin Hart and Ice Cube, zoomed past the week’s lone new release, the monster thriller I,…
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Iowa GOP Drops Contractor Behind Racially Tinged Facebook Post
A social media contractor is said to be out of a job after an offensive flowchart appeared briefly Friday on the website of the Iowa Republican Party, the Daily Beast reports. A.J. Spiker, the party’s chairman, told the Daily Beast in a statement that the contractor responsible for posting the flowchart, “Is Someone a Racist?”…
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Mitt Romney: Putin a Better President Than Obama
Mitt Romney appears to be a sore loser. The failed 2012 Republican presidential candidate told NBC News that he thinks Russian leader Vladmir Putin has outperformed Obama “time and time again on the world stage.” During the interview, he described the U.S. and Russia as “geopolitical adversaries,” hitting Putin for giving cover to Syrian President…
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Elementary School Principal Placed on Leave for Using N-Word
Here we go again. A school district in Washington state has suspended an elementary school principal after a group of fifth-graders claimed that she used the n-word during play rehearsal last week. Poulsbo Elementary School Principal Claudia Alves has been placed on a leave of absence while the district investigates the incident, North Kitsap County…
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Quote of the Day: Michael Jordan on Effort
You can read this quote by Michael Jordan in his book I Can’t Accept Not Trying (1994) and in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. Read more about Michael Jordan here. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and founding director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is also the editor-in-chief…
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Ties to Thomas Jefferson Unravel Family Mystery
More than 40 years ago, I learned of my family’s ancestral ties to Thomas Jefferson. It was a blood connection impossible to prove, and one seldom discussed, as my father was ashamed of his mother’s out-of-wedlock birth. Still, he acknowledged that he’d heard from an older generation that Jefferson was his lineal ancestor. The tie…
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The 2014 Grammy Awards: Top 5 Things to Watch For
LL Cool J., who has hosted the Grammys for the last two years, is back again. Um, yay? Anyway we have a list of five things to look out for during the show, which starts at 8 p.m. EST on CBS, including a performance by hip-hop’s biggest couple, Beyoncé and Jay Z. The event will…
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White Supremacist Pleads to Reduced Charges After Terrorizing Neighbors With Guns
When 29-year-old Kynan Dutton joined forces with Craig Cobb, 62, late last year, they planned to set up a whites-only community in Leith, N.D. But those plans fell by the wayside after the two men were arrested and charged with felony terrorizing, following confrontations with other residents, reports say. Now Dutton, who is being released…
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Ex-Gang Member Loses $111,432 Illinois Corrections Job
Illinois has long been known for its history of political shenanigans, but a recent story is still likely to turn heads. The Illinois prison director’s chief of staff reportedly approved the hiring of a former gang member to a high-paying job last year—just one day after the agency’s own background screening determined he was not…
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