Magic Johnson says he’s outraged that a pair of Minneapolis talk radio hosts accused him of faking AIDS. KTLK’s Chris Baker and Langdon Perry made the remarks during Baker’s conservative talk show on Wednesday. The context for the remarks wasn’t clear.
A gallery of NewsOne’s top photos of the week ending on October 10, 2008.
The Daddy Yankee endorsement notwithstanding, John McCain seems to be having trouble getting minority ethnic groups to rally around his cause. His stance on most issues that affect the Hispanic voter has caused an irreparable rift, and his surrogates are scrambling to latch on to more groups as his hopes fade in typical Republican turfs […]
Democrat Barack Obama accused Republican John McCain of trying to divide the country Friday, but he let other Democrats handle harsher attacks while he kept his message mostly upbeat.
President Bush said Friday that the government’s financial rescue plan was aggressive enough and big enough to work, but would take time to fully kick in. “We can solve this crisis and we will,” he said in brief remarks from the White House Rose Garden.
Spirals of alkaline dust swirl across the hardpan where a century ago 300 black Americans planted alfalfa and corn hoping racial tolerance would take root.
Stocks plunged in the final hour of trading Thursday, sending the Dow Jones industrial average down more than 675 points, or more than 7 percent, to its lowest level in five years after a major credit ratings agency said it was considering cutting its rating on General Motors Corp.
A defendant had a hard time facing the music. Andrew Vactor was facing a $150 fine for playing rap music too loudly on his car stereo in July. But a judge offered to reduce that to $35 if Vactor spent 20 hours listening to classical music by the likes of Bach, Beethoven and Chopin.
The ex-headmistress of Oprah Winfrey’s school for girls in South Africa sued the talk show host for defamation, claiming Winfrey falsely suggested she tried to cover up abuse at the school.
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