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Attorney General Eric Holder said on Wednesday that his department remains committed to closing the terrorist detention center at Guantanamo Bay and is still reviewing its decision to try the 9/11 plotters in the civilian court system.

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) – The two youngest boys charged with gang-raping a 7-year-old girl last month may have been pressured into confessing and implicating others in the case, according to two people with firsthand knowledge of the police interrogations.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Near the launch pads where U.S. space voyages begin, President Barack Obama will try to reassure workers that America’s space adventures sail on despite the coming end of space shuttle flights.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A congressman trying to become Alabama’s first black governor has drawn the ire of the state’s black leaders by refusing to take part in screenings for their organizations’ endorsements.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Benjamin L. Hooks, a champion of minorities and the poor who as executive director of the NAACP increased the group’s stature, has died. He was 85.

Michael Steele addressed the National Action Network Conference yesterday and called Al Sharpton a “strong leader” and a “friend.” He also alluded to some of the Republican party being similar to an Elephant’s ass, saying:

This is an interesting video from Al-Jazeera English. They have a very well researched video on white supremacists in the age of Obama. By the video, its seems that the rhetoric and images from the neo-nazis is extremely similar to the rhetoric coming from the Tea Party, except the Tea Party’s Hitler pictures and Swastikas […]

Jon Stewart took on both the Tea Party and the Republican party for their angry offensive antics. Rather than saying the GOP needs to distance itself from the Tea Party, Stewart says that the Tea Party needs to distance itself from the extremist GOP. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / […]

BOSTON – The tea party movement is returning to the city from which its revolutionary spirit was born, with Sarah Palin headlining a final rally before the activists’ cross-country tour culminates in Washington on Tax Day.

From WashingtonPost.com: A federal judge Tuesday ordered a rural county in southwestern Mississippi to stop segregating its schools by grouping African American students into all-black classrooms and allowing white students to transfer to the county’s only majority-white school, the U.S. Justice Department announced.

Jacoby Laquan Smith, a man from Minnesota, was recently accused of abusing his girlfriend, who is a quadruple amputee. Smith, who is a accused of hitting his girlfriend, Tiesha Bell, ten times in the face said that he was simply defending himself.