LAS VEGAS — A former O.J. Simpson co-defendant facing a new trial in their 2007 robbery-kidnapping case said he is disappointed in the former football star for not clearing his name.

PORT-AU-PRINCE — Haitian elections officials said Thursday they will review the tallies of the top three vote getters in last week’s controversial presidential elections under the watchful eyes of both Haitian and foreign observers.

WASHINGTON — A major defense authorization bill carrying the repeal of the military’s ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ law was blocked on Thursday by Senate Republicans and one Senate Democrat after negotiations between the parties failed. A number of moderate Republicans who said they supported a repeal, including Scott Brown (R-Mass.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), voted […]

Washington — Yesterday, the House passed the DREAM Act which would provide a path to legalization to children of undocumented immigrants who enroll in college or serve in the military. Naturally, most Republicans opposed the measure.

According to a new report from the Pew Internet & American LifeEight Project, of the eight percent of the U.S. online population that uses Twitter today, the most active users are African-Americans and Latinos.

Uganda –Rachel Maddow devoted almost half of her Wednesday show to a lengthy interview with David Bahati, author of the infamous bill in the Ugandan Parliament that calls for gay people to face life imprisonment or, in some cases, execution if they are convicted of having practiced homosexuality.

GADSDEN, Ala. – Police in Alabama say a 20-year-old man who believes he is a vampire and goes by the nickname “Vamp” is accused of burning a “V” into a teenager’s forehead. Evan Francis Brown has been charged with second-degree assault, a felony. Gadsden police detective Mike Hooks told The Gadsden Times that Brown heated […]

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans on Thursday derailed a bill to aid people who got sick after exposure to dust from the World Trade Center’s collapse in the Sept. 11 attack.

From TheGrio New York –The struggling economy has left many Americans saddled with bad credit reports, the same reports could also leave them unemployed. Loudy Appolon, a Florida woman is suing the University of Miami for firing her before she could begin her job because of a bad credit report that includes a default on […]

South Carolina — Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church will be dispatching members of its congregation to protest the funeral of Elizabeth Edwards this Saturday, CNN reports.

Chicago — Four young men will go on trial beginning next month over the 2009 videotaped beating death of a Chicago high school student that was viewed globally and led to promised reforms from official Washington.