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Their efforts in Congress squashed, U.S. automakers are depending upon a reluctant White House to quickly provide a multibillion lifeline to help them avoid imminent collapse.

Michael Mineo, a Brooklyn Tattoo artist, who was allegedly sodomized with a police baton by police officers on October this year was taunted by plain clothes police officers in court earlier this week.

For the record, Jesse Jackson, Jr. did not offer a million dollars for Obama’s Senate seat. If the Blagojevich phone calls are indicative of Jackson’s position, he (or an emissary) offered to help raise a million dollars for Blagojevich’s campaign. How is this worse than any of the rich donors who give and raise money […]

While top executives of sinking companies like AIG and Merrill Lynch 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>

Four days before the election, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich claimed someone came to him with a deal about filling Barack Obama’s soon-to-be open U.S. Senate seat.

President-elect Barack Obama intends to round out his environmental and natural resources team with a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and three former Environmental Protection Agency officials from the Clinton administration.

With Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich defying calls for his resignation, state officials pondered reducing his power or forcing him from office amid an intensifying criminal investigation that has made him arguably the most toxic politician in America.

A House-passed bill to speed $14 billion in loans to Detroit’s automakers stands on shaky ground in a bailout-weary Congress, undermined by Republican opposition that could derail the emergency aid in the Senate.

  KINGSTON, Jamaica — Heavily armed gangs wrestling for control of two communities near Jamaica’s capital have forced more than 200 people from their homes, police said Wednesday.

Jesse Jackson Jr., currently implicated in the Blagojevich senate scandal, for trying to bribe the Illinoia Governor had a press conference.

From Ben Smith at Politico: The Transition just launched a <a href="http://change.gov/page/content/openforquestions">Digg-style tool</a> by which citizens can ask questions and vote on the questions they think Obama's aides should answer. What's your question?

Because of the growing humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe, which has been spurred by a lack of water and the rapid spread of deadly cholera, Robert Mugabe is facing increased pressure to step down as President.