Politics

Missouri is redfining the way juvenile detention is done. From CNN: Getting arrested for stealing cars after his 16th birthday may be the best thing that ever happened to Terrence Barkley. It got him out of gangs and headed to college. While in one of Missouri’s juvenile facilities, Barkley became editor of its student newspaper,…

What if there was a pill you could take once a day to keep from contracting HIV? That idea may not be as crazy as it sounds. In countries around the world, scientific studies involving thousands of participants are looking at whether a person who does not have HIV can take a once-a-day, anti-retroviral pill…

Rush Limbaugh responds to Jay-Z’s ‘Off That’ in which Mr. Carter raps: Please tell Bill O’Reilly to fall back Tell Rush Limbaugh to get of my balls It’s 2010, not 1864 Not to be outdone, Limbaugh of course brings up Barack Obama and wants to remind Jigga that the nation’s penises need to be saved…

Let’s be honest: We can be quick to pull the race card, but even The Buzz had to give Gov. Paterson a side  eye on this one. From The New York Times: Gov. David A. Paterson attempted to distance himself on Tuesday from comments he made last week suggesting that some in the news media…

Chris Brown was sentenced Tuesday for assaulting then-girlfriend Rihanna in February. In the course of sentencing, previous incidents of violence between the two came to light. From CNN: Pop singer Chris Brown was sentenced Tuesday to serve five years probation and to spend more than 1,400 hours in “labor-oriented service” for assaulting his pop star…

Edward M. Kennedy, one of the most powerful and influential senators in American history and one of three brothers whose political triumphs and personal tragedies captivated the nation for decades, died at 77. Kennedy, a Massachusetts Democrat, was the last survivor of a privileged and charismatic family that in the 1960s dominated American politics and…

Everybody tryna make a dollar…From CNN: Wendell Potter knows a little something about the health care industry’s practices and is not afraid of to speak out as the health care reform debate heats up around the country. The former vice president of corporate communications at insurance giant Cigna, who left his post, says the industry…

Ben Bernanke’s probably keeping his job (and health benefits). From CNN: President Obama announced Tuesday that he plans to nominate Ben Bernanke to a second term as head of the Federal Reserve. “Ben Bernanke, has led the Fed through the one of the worst financial crises that this nation and this world have ever faced,”…

Being accused of attemped murder has a funny way of turning someone’s life around. In Jesse Ray Beard’s case, one of the teens accused in the Jena 6 case, his turn was for the better thanks, in large part, to the lawyer who represented him, Howard Alan. From CNN: Beard, 18, now interns at a…

St. Bernard Parish, southeast of New Orleans, has the distinction in Louisiana of taking the most direct hit from Hurricane Katrina four years ago this week. In the slow, painful rebuilding that followed, the parish has gone out of its way to keep low-income, working black families from living there. A federal court ruled twice…