WASHINGTON — The number of people seeking unemployment benefits plummeted last week to 352,000, the fewest since April 2008. The decline added to evidence that the job market is strengthening. SEE ALSO: Obama’s Big Oil Win Applications fell 50,000, the biggest drop in the seasonally adjusted figure in more than six years, the Labor Department […]

DMX, Swizz Beats, Drag-On, and Murda-Mook are reuniting for a Ruff Ryders reunion tour, according to TMZ. SEE ALSO: Brandy, Monica Reunite For Record While DMX says that past Ruff Ryders’ artists Eve and The L.O.X. haven’t signed on yet, TMZ quoted Eve this past weekend saying she was ready to be a part of […]

And so the hunt for the famed G-spot continues.  Is the much-debated female pleasure spot reality or is it just some conjured up sexual hype?  Whether or not there’s actually a Gräfenberg spot (or G-spot) is an issue that has been debated over the last 60 years, and now scientists at Yale University are saying that they can’t find it. SEE ALSO: I’m […]

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and Congress are back where they were before Christmas, locked in an election-season tussle over a proposed 1,700-mile oil pipeline from Canada to Texas. SEE ALSO: How Well Do You Really Know Ron Paul Republicans hope to again force Obama to make a politically risky decision, while he is seeking […]

Red Tails, an all-black film, is opening January 20 at a theater near you. If you happen to see it, do me a small favor: take a gander at the rest of the audience and see if they resemble the thespians on film. Chances are, they will. Supporting black films, and black art in general, […]

MIAMI-Dallas Cowboys wide receiver, Dez Bryant was reportedly involved in a fight with rapper Lil Wayne and his entourage at club Liv on South Beach in Miami. Bryant was detained by police but not arrested. According to reports the fight was over a debt Bryant had to a firm that was linked to Lil Wayne’s […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is pitching a plan for boosting U.S. tourism near Orlando, just as Republican presidential candidates prepare to blanket Florida with an anti-Obama message ahead of the state’s Jan. 31 primary. Thursday’s trip is the latest attempt by the White House and Obama campaign to steal a share of the […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors will not seek restitution against the doctor convicted of killing Michael Jackson after conferring with the singer’s parents and attorneys for his estate and children. The request for payments from Conrad Murray was withdrawn Wednesday during a brief court hearing, just days before a judge was scheduled to consider how […]

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) — When the Marine unit that suffered the greatest casualties in the 10-year Afghan war returned home last spring, they didn’t rush back to their everyday lives. SEE ALSO: Get Out! Woman Offers Sex For McNuggets Instead, the Marine Corps put them into a kind of decompression chamber, keeping them at […]