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Foursquare, the phone application for telling friends and strangers where you are, is offering a special virtual “badge” through September to people who do just that.

Roland Martin appears in The Situation Room with CNN’s Suzanne Malveaux and Ed Rollins to discusses Glenn Beck’s efforts to “take back the civil rights movement” at a rally in Washington. WATCH: Who Owns The Civil Rights Movement?

From TheDailyBeast.com: Glenn Beck’s weekend speech was reminiscent of the radical 1960s black separatist leader: Both terrify mainstream liberals and shed politics for a message of spiritual uplift.

Antoine Fuqua's forthcoming Tupac Shakur biopic will soon have a script: Two Oscar-nominated writers, Stephen J. Rivele and Chris Wilkinson, have been tapped to write the screenplay.

Do sports and Twitter mix? That’s the question that the latest Twitter-gate has prompted. Over the weekend, many eyebrows were raised over a tweet generated from Carmelo Anthony’s official Twitter account, @carmeloanthony, offering anyone $5,000 to slap Kat Stacks, an infamous groupie who has built up name recognition primarily through exposing her escapades with rappers, […]

A pistol-packing grandmother in northern Alabama believes intruders will think twice before messing with her again.

Antoine Dodson’s angry, head-shaking TV interview about an attempted rape against his younger sister in her bed has turned into a chart-topping iTunes song and YouTube hit and made the 24-year-old Alabama college student an Internet sensation.

Category 4 Hurricane Earl may be headed for the Providence, Rhode Island area. The 5th named storm of 2010, Hurricane Earl is packing maximum sustained winds of 135mph, and wind gusts of 160mph. Hurricane Earl's projected path shows this powerful cyclone barreling towards the east coast with Rhode Island possibly in its sight.

The new "Dancing with the Stars" cast includes former NBA superstar and "The Game" actor Rick Fox, former "Moesha" star and singer Brandy Norwood, and "That's So Raven" and "Cory in the House", child-star Kyle Massey.

The Ivy League daughter of former Mayor Rudy Giuliani is expected in a Manhattan courtroom Tuesday to face shoplifting charges – and a deal may be in the works.

It’s flu-shot season already, and for the first time, health authorities are urging nearly everyone to get vaccinated. There is even a new high-dose version for people 65 or older.

A majority of Republicans believe that President Barack Obama “sympathizes with the goals of Islamic fundamentalists who want to impose Islamic law around the world,” according to a survey released on Monday.