Police searched garbage dumps in New Jersey and Pennsylvania on Tuesday for the body of a baby apparently thrown out with the trash at a Jersey City hospital sometime in the past two weeks.
CNN has a report on how the Presidency will affect Obama’s appearance. According to Dr. Michael Roizen every year of the Presidency is like two regular years of aging.
The son of a retired major league baseball player was shot outside his Bellaire home New Year’s Eve by a police officer who thought the man was in a stolen SUV.
From Phillip Pullella at Reuters: Relations between the Vatican and Israel grew tense on Thursday when the Jewish state condemned an aide to Pope Benedict for calling Gaza “a big concentration camp.”
A brief letter about how the recent police brutality relates to the missile attacks on Palestine.
Candace Parker is expecting her first child this spring, and the WNBA star will keep working out leading to the 2009 season.
War is a horrible state to live in. It is not about who started it; it’s about stopping the killing. While people may debate about who is wrong and right between Israel and Hamas, no one can debate the horror and terror being inflicted on innocent civilians. Check out the images after the jump.
Is TO next? Can the media distinguish one black “sports villain” from another?
Spider-Man has a new sidekick: The president-elect. Barack Obama collected Spider-Man comics as a child, so Marvel Comics wanted to give him a “shout-out back” by featuring him in a bonus story, said Joe Quesada, Marvel’s editor-in-chief.
From Natalie Hopkinson at TheRoot.com: Coming to D.C. for the inauguration? Time to get to work!
The Army said Wednesday that 7,000 family members of soldiers killed in the Iraq or Afghan wars mistakenly were sent letters addressing them as “John Doe.”
From Rami G. Khouri at the Middle East Online: Of course, the immediate consequences of the Israeli assault on Gaza are felt primarily by the Palestinians in Gaza. But the political shockwaves will be felt throughout the Arab world in forms that cannot be easily predicted today.
