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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.

Sports has been boiled down to the Winners and the Losers, but the real gains come through the display of powerful spirits striving through unlikely obstacles. NewsOne presents the Best Sports Stories of 2008.

The Rev. James L. Bevel, a prominent figure in the civil rights movement whose legacy was clouded by an incest conviction, has died, a relative said. He was 72.

One measure of how tough times are in the Motor City: Some of the offenders in jail don’t want to be released; some who do get out promptly re-offend to head back where there’s heat, health care and three meals a day.

While top executives of sinking companies are being bailed out, average Americans are being failed by their government, and left to struggle with the crisis on their own. NewsOne introduces our <strong>"Bailed Or Failed"</strong> series. <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Click through</span> to read about an exec who was bailed out and an average American who was failed during the financial crisis.<strong> Protest here!</strong>

It’s something any bank would demand to know before handing out a loan: Where’s the money going? But after receiving billions in aid from U.S. taxpayers, the nation’s largest banks say they can’t track exactly how they’re spending the money or they simply refuse to discuss it.

The reasons why Obama's Basketball Mind has made for a capable Cabinet.

From Mitch Anderson at the Star Tribune: There was no fanfare, no press release when Keith Ellison made the pilgrimage to the Muslim holy city of Mecca last week.

Cheney leaves office Jan. 20 as one of the most powerful, if unpopular, vice presidents in recent history. He played a key role in many of Bush’s major policy decisions and, in the interview, was unapologetic in his review of the past eight years.