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Pictures surfaced on the ‘net late last night of Osama Bin Laden’s dead corpse. While many saw the resemblance in these pictures, the White House has officially said that a death photo of Osama has not been released; and what is currently circulating is not real. The fake picture was initially published by the Middle […]

NEW YORK–A Sacramento Fox News affiliate, Fox 40, is receiving backlash after they displayed a typographical error stating “Obama Bin Laden Dead,” rather than the actual news of Osama Bin Laden’s death. LINK: The 11 Most Compelling 9/11 Conspiracy Theories

Minutes after President Obama announced the news that Bin Laden has been killed, many of our BlackPlanet community members began to react to the news that has brought some measure of peace to the families who had victims of his various terrorist attacks. Below are some of the comments by some Black Planet members: By […]

A U.S. official says Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has been buried at sea. After Bin Laden was killed in a raid by U.S. forces in Pakistan, senior administration officials said the body would be handled according to Islamic practice and tradition. That practice calls for the body to be buried within 24 hours, […]

WASHINGTON — Still-secret photos of the dead Osama bin Laden show a precision kill shot above his left eye, a U.S. official said, as fresh details emerged of an audacious American raid that netted potentially crucial al-Qaida records as well as the body of the global terrorist leader. President Barack Obama is going to ground […]

View video here So there wasn’t only one Royal Wedding last week as a couple in Detroit took their marriage to a local “White Castle” with a bevy of onlookers. The couple, Marquisa Benford and Donahvan Gray, met at the White Castle two years ago. “When he came and he flashed those dimples, it melted […]

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama exercised his revenge Saturday after weeks of attacks from his would-be Republican challenger Donald Trump, joking that the billionaire businessman could bring change to the White House, transforming it from a stately mansion into a tacky casino with a whirlpool in the garden. With Trump in attendance, Obama used the […]

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma Republican Sally Kern apologized Thursday for statements she made against women and Black people during a debate on affirmative action. NEWSOK reports: “I want to humbly apologize for my statements last night about African-Americans and women,” Kern, R-Oklahoma City, said in a statement. “I believe that our government should not provide […]

JOLIET, Ill. — A group of employees at a Illinois warehouse have filed a discrimination complaint over racist graffiti on the walls of their workplace, alleging that the management was notified but did not intervene. Chicago Tribune reports: The workers said the discrimination stems from racist graffiti, including swastikas and KKK signs, painted in the […]

After recent fights involving students and adult gang-members in Hayward, Calif., the local school board and high school principals met to discuss their continued fight against gang violence in their schools. Mt. Eden, Hayward and Tennyson high schools all have a policy that ban wearing gang colors, however the three principals disagree on how to […]

CHICAGO — Two men were killed and at least eight people were wounded in shootings around the city between Friday night and early this morning, police said. Huffington Post reports: A man — identified by the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office as 20-year-old Keneth Sims — was fatally shot in the back at 1:12 a.m. […]

PRATT CITY, Ala. — Church groups, students and other volunteers worked aggressively Saturday to bring food, water and other necessities to communities ravaged by the second-deadliest day of tornadoes in history. Across the South, volunteers have been pitching in as the death toll from Wednesday’s storms keeps rising. At least 340 people were killed across […]