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SAN FRANCISCO — Days before a college football player was arrested on a US Airways flight at San Francisco airport following a dispute over his saggy pants, the airline allowed another man wearing skimpy women’s panties and mid-thigh stockings to fly, according to a passenger and airline spokeswoman. LINK: College Football Player Kicked Off Plane, […]

Anderson Cooper called out President Obama on his Tuesday show for flip-flopping his stance on same-sex marriage. During his “Keeping Them Honest” segment, Cooper said “New questions are being raised about what the president actually believes about gay marriage and whether his public opposition to it is real or just political posturing.” He then narrated […]

A new op-ed on The Root written by Sherrilyn Ifill talks about Wal-Mart’s victory over female workers in a gender discrimination lawsuit and the implications of the decision. Did the Supreme Court tell Americans with this decision that the bigger a corporation is, the harder it will be defeat them in a case of this […]

Using their list of the top 500 American high schools, Newsweek has compiled a separate ranking of ten schools with standout performances, despite having severely limited access to resources. Newsweek/TheDailyBeast Reports: To compile the list, we took each school’s Newsweek score on the list of the top 500 American high schools and  multiplied it by […]

Former New York Giants wide receiver and Super Bowl legend David Tyree has received a lot of criticism in the past week over his remarks against gay marriage. The retired athlete took it even further this week when he said he would trade his iconic catch and victory over the Patriots if it means gay […]

Recent findings reveal that some laced cocaine likely contains levamisole, a veterinary drug used for de-worming livestock, that will make your flesh rot off. According to the Department of Justice, some 70 percent of cocaine (most of it distributed in and around New York and L.A.) is cut with levamisole. Time reports that the average user […]

A Southwest Airlines pilot has been suspended after his cock-pit microphone was accidentally left on, broadcasting a homophobic and misogynistic rant. The pilot, who’s name has not been released,  could be heard complaining to his co-pilot about how he couldn’t find a flight attendant to sleep with, because they are all “gays,” “over-weight,” or “grannies.” […]

NEW ORLEANS — As the latest figures shows Black unemployment climbing to 16%, Republican presidential hopeful Rep. Michele Bachmann (R.-Minn.) claims that the Obama administration has failed African Americans. Bachmann pointed to the figures at the recent Republican Leadership Conference held in New Orleans last weekend. “This president has failed the Hispanic community. He has […]

SALT LAKE CITY- Jason Valdez is no stranger to Utah police. His latest brush with the law, however, may have been the most public. An armed Valdez, 36, held a woman hostage at a motel in a tense 16-hour, overnight standoff with SWAT teams, all while finding time to keep his family and friends updated […]

NEW YORK–A 17-year-old girl viciously attacked a female New York City bus driver Tuesday, after she was told she could not board with her dog. Steangeli Medina was stopped from getting on the Bx9 in the Bronx on Fordham Road in Belmont just before 6 p.m., according to officials. The driver, Marlene Bien-Aime, 48, noticed a […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — As a Republican state senator who secretly recorded conversations for the FBI testified Thursday that he couldn’t explain why he called black customers of a casino “aborigines,” Alabama’s Democrat leader called for his resignation and the Republican Party chairman defended his reputation. “I don’t use that term normally. I don’t know where […]

NEW YORK-Steangeli Medina a 17-year-old girl from the Bronx, allegedly beat bus driver, Marlene Bien-Aime, after the bus driver told her she couldn’t board the bus with the small dog she was carrying. The New York Daily News reports: The driver, Marlene Bien-Aime, 48, spotted a pooch tucked in the teen’s jacket and told her […]