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WASHINGTON — The House has adopted a measure renewing unemployment benefits for people who have been without a job for at least six months.
GRAND ISLE, Louisiana — President Barack Obama personally confronted the spreading damage wrought by the crude gushing into the Gulf of Mexico and the bitter anger that’s rising onshore, meeting with local officials and kneeling to pick up tar balls on an oil-fouled beach.
A NewsOne Exclusive By Kevin Fenton, M.D. Director, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention Centers for Disease Control and Prevention In March, CDC announced the findings from a recent analysis – one in six Americans ages 14-49 is infected with herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2), the virus that causes genital […]
A NewsOne Exclusive With Memorial Day just around the corner, this year’s beach and pool season is about to begin in earnest. But a new study released by USA Swimming shows that many Black Americans can’t safely join the fun: 70 percent of African-American children have little to no swimming ability, nearly twice as many […]
NEW ORLEANS — Intent on showing firm command of the deepening crisis in the Gulf of Mexico, President Barack Obama flew to coastal Louisiana Friday for his second in-person update on the country’s most devastating oil spill.
NEW YORK (AP) — A panel convened after two officer-on-officer shootings said police departments must confront both overt and unconscious racial bias among officers to reduce the risk of one officer harming another during “friendly fire.”
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House of Representatives on Thursday delivered a victory to President Barack Obama and gay rights groups by approving a proposal to repeal the law that allows gays to serve in the military only if they don’t disclose their sexual orientation. The 234-194 vote to overturn the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” […]
Last month, TV One’s Cathy Hughes did an exclusive one-on-one interview with the renowned and controversial Minister Louis Farrakhan.
COVINGTON, Louisiana — An untested procedure to plug the blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico seemed to be working, officials said Thursday, but new estimates showed the spill has already surpassed the Exxon Valdez as the worst in U.S. history.