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Chip Saltsman (pictured), candidate to head the Republican National Committee, sends out a Christmas goodie bag to RNC members with a CD including the racially loaded parody of Obama’s liberal supporters.

A Classic case of missing the forest for the trees

In celebration of Kwaanza we are giving e-awards to the people we thought best symbolized the seven principles of Kwaanza.

Eartha Kitt, a sultry singer, dancer and actress who rose from South Carolina cotton fields to become an international symbol of elegance and sensuality, has died, a family spokesman said. She was 81.

  Coroner’s officials say there are “several” more bodies in the ashes of a Christmas Eve party shooting at a house in aLos Angeles suburb that subsequently caught fire.

NewsOne would like to say merry Xmas to all of our faithful readers. Remember in these times of economic insecurity, it is our families, friends and loved ones who really matter to us not material goods. Here are some of our favorite Chrismas carols that we think you’ll appreciate.

Some worthwhile commentary on Obama’s controversial decision to invite Pastor Rick Warren to give the Invocation at the Presidential Inauguration

President-elect Barack Obama has said all along that neither he nor his team was involved in any eye-popping dealmaking over filling his vacated Senate seat. Obama’s hand-picked investigator agreed.

Before leaving for the holidays, President Bush on Tuesday commuted one prison sentence and granted 19 pardons, including one to a man who helped the Jewish resistance in the 1940s.

A woman in the San Francisco Bay area was jumped by four men, taunted for being a lesbian, repeatedly raped and left naked outside an abandoned apartment building, authorities said Monday.

Sports talk radio lives on wild speculation. Except… Five rules of the road for (not) playing the race card

A trio of reports due out Tuesday are expected to paint a bleak picture of the nation’s housing market and the broader economy, as the deepening recession sends more companies lining up for a piece of the government’s $700 billion bailout fund.