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Albert Haynesworth said Saturday his $100 million contract doesn’t make him a slave to the Washington Washington Football Team. In an interview with 106.7 The Fan, the two-time All-Pro defensive tackle said the big paychecks don’t mean he can’t push back when the team asks him to play a different position. Haynesworth, who rarely speaks […]

CNN anchor Don Lemon admitted over the weekend that he was a victim of a pedophile as a child. Lemon made the startling announcement on live TV while discussing the scandal involving Georgia Bishop Eddie Long, who is accused of sexually abusing male teenage members of his church. “I have never admitted this on television,” […]

MY homework for an hourlong interview with President Obama last week began with reviews of his earlier speeches and interviews, and conversations with economists and political operatives. It ended around a dinner table. That’s where, over salad and swordfish, former aides to another Democratic president, Bill Clinton, explored principal questions hanging over the coming midterm […]

The sheriff arrived at the factory here to shut it down, part of a national enforcement drive against clothing manufacturers who violate the minimum wage. But women working on the factory floor — the supposed beneficiaries of the crackdown — clambered atop cutting tables and ironing boards to raise anguished cries against it. “Why? Why?” […]

Gospel star Marvin Sapp took the stage briefly Thursday afternoon at his wife, MaLinda Sapp’s, funeral.

A 19-year-old student has died after a man who was kicked out of a frat party returned with a gun and opened fire, police said today. Jessica Moore died and four others were wounded in the shooting near Seton Hall University in the US. The Essex County Prosecutor's Office confirmed that Ms Moore died overnight […]

Bishop Eddie Long spoke at a press conference to reporters at a 10 a.m. news conference today at his New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Ga., after a scandal that has resulted from days of allegations that he coerced four young men into sex.

President Obama blasted the GOP’s “Pledge to America” Saturday as nothing but a plan to continue “disastrous” policies of the George W. Bush administration.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — The New Jersey Nets might be getting a superstar after all. After failing to lure LeBron James (FSY), Dwyane Wade (FSY) or Chris Bosh (FSY) to New Jersey during the free- agency sweepstakes this summer, the Nets are engaged in trade talks to acquire Carmelo Anthony (FSY). A person close […]

The power of any pastor over his or her parishioners is derived from their “calling” to minister the Gospel from God, or as some call it, the anointing by the Holy Spirit. But the role of a pastor — the Bible speaks to being a shepherd of a flock — also comes from the belief […]