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Dennis Rodman Announces Players for North Korea Game
Dennis Rodman has released the list of athletes who will play in an exhibition basketball game against a top North Korean Senior National team on Jan. 8, marking Kim Jong Un’s birthday in Pyongyang, the Associated Press reports. Rodman reportedly will lead a team that includes former NBA All-Stars Kenny Anderson, Cliff Robinson and Vin…
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Quvenzhané Wallis Set to Earn $1,500,000 in Annie Remake
Ten-year-old Oscar-nominated actress Quvenzhané Wallis stands to earn $1.5 million for her performance in the remake of Annie, TMZ reports. Wallis was nominated last year for the Oscar for best actress for her breakout role in Beasts of the Southern Wild. Now, for her role in Annie, Wallis is scheduled to receive a base salary…
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Michelle Obama Receives Hawaiian Vacation for 50th Birthday
Michelle Obama will remain in Hawaii for a few extra days after her family heads back to the White House Sunday, following a two-week vacation, the Associated Press reports. The first lady will spend time with friends before her 50th birthday party. The White House says the extra time in Hawaii is part of President…
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Election-Year Politics to Dominate Congress in 2014
Election-year politics are set to take center stage on a limited congressional agenda as lawmakers return to work on Monday after the winter recess, the Associated Press reports. While Republicans plan to focus on President Barack Obama’s beleaguered health care law, Democrats will put their energies on restoring unemployment benefits to millions of Americans and…
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Mitt Romney Accepts Melissa Harris-Perry’s Apology
Former Republican presidential candidate and Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney appeared on Fox News Sunday to address the controversy surrounding comments made about his grandson on a segment Melissa Harris-Perry’s MSNBC show last week. He told Fox host Chris Wallace that he accepts her “heartfelt apology” and was ready to move on from the episode. The controversy began after Harris-Perry…
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Quote of the Day: Kofi Annan on Genocide
You can find this quote from a Nobel lecture given in Oslo, Norway (2001), and others by Kofi Annan, in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. Read the quote in its full context 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…
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President Obama Urges Congress to Restore Unemployment Benefits
In his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday, President Barack Obama urged Congress to restore jobless benefits for more than a million Americans, saying a failure to do so would slow the economy for everyone, the Associated Press reports. The AP says that a bipartisan proposal in the Senate would restore benefits for three months…
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Melissa Harris-Perry Issues Tearful Apology to Romney Family
(Update 11:50 am: On Fox News this morning, Mitt Romney accepted Melissa Harris Perry’s apology. View here.) MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry issued a tearful on-air apology Saturday to Mitt Romney’s family for her controversial comments about the former GOP presidential candidate’s adopted grandchild, saying she was “deeply sorry” for how the segment unfolded. Harris-Perry came…
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Jesse Jackson to Reunite With Navy Lt. 30 Years After Syria Crisis
The Rev. Jesse Jackson was scheduled Saturday to reunite with the Navy lieutenant and former hostage whom he helped liberate from Syrian captivity 30 years ago, according to USA Today. Jackson negotiated the release of Navy Lt. (now retired Commander) Robert Goodman on Jan. 4, 1984, after a month of captivity. It was the first…
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OJ Simpson, Claiming Brain Cancer, Seeks Obama Clemency
O.J. Simpson is asking President Barack Obama for clemency, saying he may have brain cancer and should be allowed to leave his Nevada jail cell, the Washington Times reports. Simpson, 66, reportedly wrote a letter appealing to Obama for relief from his 33-year sentence for kidnapping and robbery, the Times says. Citing the Mirror News,…
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