From Newsweek.com
September 6, 2010
Ben Afflecks next movie, the Town, is set in Charlestown Mass, known for the battle of Bunker Hill and dubbed in the past by tabloid TV as hells half acre for all the crimes that take place there. The film, ...
Posted Tuesday, September 7th 2010 at 4:00PM
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VANCOUVER, Wash. (CBS/KOIN) Bethany Storro has been a model of optimism ever since she was attacked with acid by a stranger on the street Aug. 30. Now it seems that optimism has paid off - she was released from the hospital Sunday afternoon, after sp ...
Posted Tuesday, September 7th 2010 at 3:40PM
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Jefferson Thomas, who as a teenager was among nine black students to integrate a Little Rock high school in the nation's first major battle over school segregation, has died. He was 68.
Thomas died Sunday in Ohio of pancreatic ...
Posted Monday, September 6th 2010 at 6:21PM
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DENVER--An American cameraman who says September 11 was a lie is facing extradition from Argentina to the United States on alleged murder charges. Kurt Sonnenfeld, a man who was provided provisory refugee status seven years ago, is now wanted by the ...
Posted Sunday, September 5th 2010 at 5:24PM
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$547 million. Thats the Pentagons P.R. budget. Theyre using it to spread mistruths and misplaced hope in progress with one goal in mind: to extend the brutal, costly Afghanistan War.
General Petraeus' media blitz is only the tip of the iceb ...
Posted Sunday, September 5th 2010 at 5:19PM
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A homeless Bellevue, Wash., couple, who prosecutors say starved their infant daughter because they feared the baby would become too fat, were given a suspended sentence Friday that will allow them to avoid jail time.
King County Superior Court Jud ...
Posted Saturday, September 4th 2010 at 8:35PM
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The Los Angeles County sheriff has escalated his war of words against California medical marijuana dispensaries, saying as many as 97 percent operate as criminal enterprises.
Some of the pot shops get marijuana from Mexican drug cartels, and most ...
Posted Saturday, September 4th 2010 at 8:31PM
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Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said Thursday an Islamic community center and mosque planned near ground zero should be built because Muslims were among those of many faiths who died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
"Why then should a m ...
Posted Saturday, September 4th 2010 at 8:25PM
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As-Salaam Alaikum (Peace Be Unto You):
THROUGHOUT THE EARTH the female has and continues to suffer the abuse of men and the abuse of societies that have not clearly understood the extreme importance and tremendous value of the female.
In man ...
Posted Friday, September 3rd 2010 at 2:11PM
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) Unlike the blast that led to the massive BP spill, the latest oil platform fire in the Gulf of Mexico killed no one and sent no crude gushing into the water.
The Mariner Energy-owned platform that erupted in flames Thursday was ...
Posted Friday, September 3rd 2010 at 1:53PM
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A month ago, six African-American teenagers drowned in a single incident in Louisiana, prompting soul-searching about why so many young black Americans can't swim.
When 15-year-old DeKendrix Warner accidentally stepped into deeper water while wadi ...
Posted Friday, September 3rd 2010 at 1:40PM
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Reporting from Denver The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday announced it had sued Joe Arpaio, the controversial sheriff of Maricopa County in Arizona, for failing to turn over documents in a probe of whether his aggressive operations against i ...
Posted Thursday, September 2nd 2010 at 2:00PM
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As the month of September brings ovarian cancer into focus, itfs time to increase public understanding about the disease, including its prevalence, approaches to screening and prevention, treatment options, and resources that offer updated ovarian c ...
Posted Tuesday, August 31st 2010 at 2:18PM
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Is eighth grade class president white? Check. Is the vice president black? Check. Is the seventh grade president white? Check. Is the treasury secretary black? Check.
Feel like you're in a time machine? We do.
Students at Nettleton Middle Sch ...
Posted Tuesday, August 31st 2010 at 2:04PM
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People who wrongly believe President Obama is Muslim are "psychopaths", according to a sermon from Rev. Jeremiah Wright on Sunday in Little Rock, Ark.
The president's controversial former pastor told the congregation at New Millenium Church that O ...
Posted Monday, August 30th 2010 at 12:41PM
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Washington, Aug 29 (ANI): A new book has suggested that among the disadvantaged people in the United States, the most needy and least helped are probably African-American men.
The new book from the University of Chicago's School of Social Service ...
Posted Sunday, August 29th 2010 at 2:56PM
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U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Saturday that he plans to recruit more African-American and Latino teachers in a bid to narrow achievement gaps among students.
African-American males make up less than 2 percent of teachers nationwide, D ...
Posted Sunday, August 29th 2010 at 2:51PM
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This sign was posted outside a club in New Orleans where a lot of college students hang out. Is this DISCRIMINATION or what? (Click on photo to enlarge and check out the hair rule)... ...
Posted Saturday, August 28th 2010 at 6:20PM
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Tens of thousands descended on Washington today for one of the biggest culture clashes in decades one that pitted an almost exclusively white crowd against one that was predominantly African-American. Both claimed the legacy of Martin Luther King.
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Posted Saturday, August 28th 2010 at 6:05PM
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