The winter storm caused a power surge in the Harlem electric grid that disabled the sound system at Patti Labelle’s concert this past weekend at the Apollo Theatre. As they started “Candelight,” a new song, there was a technical breakdown.

In a new report from Esquire magazine, the writer speculates that Obama may decriminalize marijuana. Esquire is saying that decriminalizing marijuana will help the economy and has a video in which Obama advocates the decriminalization of marijuana.

From Politico: On January 20th, President-elect Barack Obama will take the oath of office using the same Bible upon which President Lincoln was sworn in at his first inauguration.

Reuters has a new report in which they say the UNICEF has estimated that there are 6,000 child soldiers in Darfur, either fighting with the government or with rebels.

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 pair of 4,300-year-old pharaonic tombs discovered at Saqqara indicate that the sprawling necropolis south of Cairo is even larger than previously thought, Egypt‘s top archaeologist said Monday.

The Pope has used his Christmas message to say that “saving” humanity from homosexual or transsexual behaviour is as important as protecting the rainforests.

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

President George W. Bush‘s foreign policies may be unpopular in the Middle East, but Arab leaders showered his top diplomat with jewelry worth far more than a quarter of a million dollars last year.

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.