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Charles Rangel throws a lavish birthday party. New York’s Democratic elite showered love and cash Wednesday night on scandal-soaked Rep. Charles Rangel at a lavish 80th birthday party fund-raiser.

Some say Montana Fishburne got just what she wanted. Attention. The sort of mainstream attention she said she was seeking in the way that Kim Kardashian has achieved. She has done the media circuit —some wondering why with the familial connections she had would she resort to porn, others lauding her as an empowered “post-racial” […]

A weekend Harlem block party that ended in a spray of gunfire and the death of a Bronx man shared a series of loose connections with the infamous Sean Bell case.

Actress Jennifer Freeman who starred in “My Wife & Kids,” has been accused of viciously attacking her NBA player husband, Earl Watson. Earl filed divorce papers last week claiming Jennifer not only hit him, but bit him until he bled and tried to go upside his head with an iron. Read more at our sister […]

A suspect believed to be the racist serial stabber has been arrested by authorities trying to flee the country in Atlanta. The man, who is white, attacked 20 men in a three state stabbing spree. Five died from their injuries and 15 were wounded.

As far as I can tell, the Twitter hashtag #wordsthatleadtotrouble got started at about 11 a.m. Pacific Time on Sunday morning, when a user named Kookeyy posted this short message: “#wordsthatleadtotrouble ‘Don’t Worry I gotchu.” A couple minutes later, Kookeyy posted another take on the same theme: “#wordsthatleadtotrouble – I Love Yuh *kiss teeth*.” On […]

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is providing $3 billion to unemployed homeowners facing foreclosure in the nation’s toughest job markets.

Isiah Thomas beat the NBA to the punch and pulled the plug on his return to the Garden.

My friend and I watched looters gleefully make mad dashes into the corner grocery store; their arms bulged with liquor bottles and cigarette cartons. Suddenly, my friend shouted out as if he was speaking to an audience, “Maybe now they’ll see how rotten they treat us.” The “they” was the white man. His words were, […]

KIGALI, Rwanda — A grenade exploded near a bus station in Rwanda’s capital late Wednesday, wounding at least seven people in an attack that came two days after the country’s presidential election, a police spokesman said.

Jurors in the corruption trial of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich asked the judge for guidance on how to proceed if they can’t reach a unanimous verdict, the judge said during a hearing.