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President Obama Blasts Republicans Over Failure to Approve Unemployment Extension
President Barack Obama called out Republicans today for blocking much-needed unemployment benefits for the millions of Americans out of work. The emergency relief extension has been blocked three times by Senate Republicans, who insist that extending the benefits will keep unemployed Americans from looking for jobs. Come again? The president and other Democrats also pointed…
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Baby's Babble May Contain Autism Clues
In a study released today, scientists report that they have designed a computer program that can distinguish between the speech of nonautistic children and those with autism. Even though this is the first time the study has been done, the program correctly identified 85 percent of autistic and nonautistic children. These findings may help doctors…
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Controversial New Study Undermines Direct Link Between Race and AIDS
A new CDC study exploring the link between AIDS and poverty is proving to be controversial for its suggestion that income is more important than race when determining a person’s chance of infection. In a press briefing this afternoon, Kevin Fenton, Director of the National Center for HIV/AIDS; Jonathan Mermin, Director of the Division of…
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VP Joe Biden Says Tea Party Isn't Racist
On ABC’s This Week, Vice President Joe Biden stated that he does not think the ultra-conservative Tea Party is racist. Taking a page from the Whoopi Goldberg-Mel Gibson debacle, he stated, “I wouldn’t characterize the Tea Party as racist,” but “there are individuals who are either members of or on the periphery of some of…
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The Evolution of Black Male Sex Symbols
Isaiah Mustafa is still turning heads as the Old Spice guy. After the first installment of the commercial series had 13 million hits on YouTube, the second installment is sending people into a viral frenzy. Part of this frenzy includes questioning why a black male sex symbol is able to have commercial appeal to a…
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Billionaire Bob Johnson to Build Spa in Liberia
Billionaire businessman Robert L. Johnson is building a luxury spa resort in war-torn Liberia. The property will be a 78-room, beach-side resort. Johnson, the founder and chairman of RLJ Companies, said he avoided the capital, Monrovia, because of its social problems, high number of people without proper housing and lack of reliable electricity. Instead, with…
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Zzzzzz . . . 13 Days Left to Shake Things Up
There’s something about deadlines that appeals to me. It hearkens back to my newsie past, I suppose. The end of the month signals one, and so I’m stepping up my game so I can hit another weight-loss milestone by the first day of August, my birthday month. We cows are constantly warned against doing stuff…
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Alvin Greene Makes First Public Speech
In his first campaign appearance, South Carolina’s surprising U.S. Senate candidate Alvin Greene made his first public speech, in which he tackled education, jobs and justice. He started off with a joke and moved into those issues quite quickly, rattling off statistics. In the 6 1/2-minute speech given at the local NAACP’s monthly meeting, Greene…
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Neo-Nazi Leading Patrols in Arizona
Jason “J.T.” Ready, a man with neo-Nazi ties, is taking border control into his own hands. Ready is leading a militia in the Arizona desert to protect the borders from illegal immigrants. He has declared war on “narco-terrorists” and illegal immigrants. To date, he and his crew have found only a few border crossers, whom…
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Haiti Has Received Only a Fraction of Promised Aid
Haiti is getting shortchanged on aid. Six months after a 7.0-earthquake devastated Haiti, aid is slowly trickling in, with only a fraction of it having reached Haiti. There were pledges of billions of dollars in supplies, medical equipment and personnel for the rebuilding and recovery of the country — even a George Clooney-produced telethon, yielding…