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SAN FRANCISCO — More demonstrators were arrested in the third week of San Francisco protests against Bay Area Rapid Transit police. About 75 individuals gathered to protest the July 3rd shooting of a BART passenger as well as a decision to cut off cell service when protesters gathered on July 11. According to police, those […]

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said that he is undecided on who he’s going to vote for in 2012, during an appearance on CBS’ “Face The Nation” Sunday. Powell, a Republican, endorsed President Obama in the 2008 election, but did not indicate if he would do the same this time around. CBS reports: I […]

Accusations of greed and racism are being hurled  at the Cherokee nation one week after the tribe decided to revoke the citizenship of nearly 3,000 descendants of freedmen — former slaves who Cherokees once owned. According to Marilyn Vann, the leader of the Freedman, race, politics and millions of dollars coming in from tribal casinos are leaving Blacks […]

NEW YORK- An African-American man who works as a dog trainer for a 44-year-old model turned housewife and socialite, claims that she demanded sex from him and fired him when he refused. Westley Artope, who worked as a dog trainer for Paige Bluhdorn, resisted her advances. Both Artope and Bludorn are married, Bluhdorn to movie […]

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. — President Barack Obama’s uncle was stopped on suspicion of drunken driving, told police he planned to arrange bail through the White House and was being held without bail on an immigration detainer, authorities said Monday. Onyango Obama was arrested last week in Framingham, about 20 miles west of Boston, after police said […]

LOS ANGELES — An adult film performer has tested positive for HIV, causing porn producers to shut down shoots in Southern California as the diagnosis is confirmed through re-testing, according to an industry group. Free Speech Coalition executive director Diane Duke told The Los Angeles Times on Monday that her group became aware of the […]

MONTPELIER, Vt. — The full measure of Hurricane Irene’s fury came into focus Monday as the death toll jumped to 40, New England towns battled epic floods and millions faced the dispiriting prospect of several days without electricity. From North Carolina to Maine, communities cleaned up and took stock of the uneven and hard-to-predict costs […]

Michele Bachmann was only joking around when she said the recent earthquake and hurricane were a message from God to scare Congress into action, her spokeswoman said. The backtracking Republican had her mouthpiece explain her humor to the Talking Points Memo website on Monday after the St. Petersburg Times reported her comments at a weekend campaign rally […]

CHICAGO  — The last of five suspects convicted in the 2009 videotaped beating death of a Chicago teenager was sentenced to 32 years in prison Monday — a quiet ending to a case that gained international attention and sparked a debate about youth violence around the country. Lapoleon Colbert, 20, was convicted of first-degree murder […]

Negotiations failed again for Ms. Mary Ward, the Brooklyn great-grandmother whose home was sold following a predatory lending scheme. After an eviction blockade the prior Friday, August 19, organized by non-profit housing advocates and local residents, supporters were able to postpone the eviction of Ms. Ward by city marshals. The successful blockade ended with Assembly member Annette […]

Ninety-eight percent of Florida’s welfare applicants passed a new mandatory drug screening that was implemented by the state. Florida Gov. Rick Scott said in June that it is “unfair for Florida taxpayers to subsidize drug addiction,” drawing criticism from the ACLU and numerous Democrats who see the new drug-screening law as unconstitutional. Contrary to Scott’s […]

NEW YORK — After the rape case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn fell apart, many people have been pointing figures at the accuser, Nafissatou Diallo. Still there are many political and social reasons the case was dropped, including the drastically different backgrounds of the accuser and the accused. The Daily Beast Reports: And Diallo? Her biography is, […]