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Barack Obama’s oldest daughter, 11-year-old Malia, made her own anti-nuclear statement when she rocked two peacenik t-shirts in Rome. Malia wore the t-shirt with the logo famous for Nuclear Disarmament as her father, President Obama, preps for three days os G8 talk in Italy. Her fashion/political statement came just two days after President Obama signed […]

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Justice has finally prevailed for one of the oldest and shadiest cases the justice system had to offer. California state prosecutors elected to drop their case against four of seven men accused in the grisly murder of a San Francisco officer of the peace nearly forty years ago. Henry Jones, 73, Ray Boudreaux, 66, Richard […]

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Two Chicago men are free after spending twenty years in jail for a crime they did not commit. According to the Illinois Attorney General’s Office, charges were dropped against 42-year old Ronald Kitchen and 50-year old Marvin Reeves. After a re-investigation of the case it was determined that there was a lack of credible evidence […]

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The Atlanta police department was ordered to release records to a citizen board reviewing the shooting death of 92 year old Kathryn Johnston and unarmed robbery suspect Pierre George Tuesday morning. However in a failed attempt to cover their A$$, The International Brotherhood of Police Officers, an Atlanta police union, filed a lawsuit Monday morning […]

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Darryl Littlejohn, 44, has dug his own grave and has now been sentenced to life without the possibility of parole for the murder of a graduate student from Boston, according to the Brooklyn district attorney’s office. Convicted Wednesday, Littlejohn was charged with first-degree murder last month in a case that spanned back to 2006 which […]

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In further investigation of the murder of former NFL quarterback Steve McNair, the case has been ruled as a murder-suicide. Police have stated that Sahel Kazemi, 20, the girlfriend of McNair shot him in his right temple and then placed three more shots into him. Due to a lack of defensive wounds, they added that […]

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Instances of minor racial skirmishes and extreme racial intolerance have risen greatly since the election of America’s first Black President. From the eastern seaboard to the west coast, Black people and African-Americans have been on the receiving end of what some would suggest is a symbolic beating. Police brutality is at an all-time high as […]

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In a blow that will leave an indelibly powerful mark on the economy of South Carolina, the National Collegiate Athletic Association has decided to pull their annual basketball championship out of South Carolina over the obvious racial tension associated with an old state practice. For decades, the Confederate Flag has flown high about South Carolina’s […]

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Does it ever stop?! North Korea is back in the news again! This time, North Korea is suspected of trying to disable and hack into the White House and other U.S. intelligent websites. Also cyber attacked were eleven South Korean websites. According to South Korea’s spy agency the National Intelligence Service, “An organization and possibly […]

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Richard Anthony McTear, Jr.’s time on earth may be cut short if Florida prosecutors have their way. They are seeking the death penalty for McTear who threw a bay infant out of a car onto Interstate 275 on May 5th. Arrested in May after a confrontation at his former girlfriend’s apartment, the 21-year old Florida […]

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President Obama visited Russia for the first time since being elected. He delivered a keynote speech today at the New Economic School in Moscow to the graduating class. He urged Russia to move on from the cold war and become one of America’s allies. “It is difficult to forge a lasting partnership between former adversaries, […]

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For generations, the Kennedy family served as the benchmark for what the ideal family should resemble. With wealth, influence, and a massive public relations campaign that functioned solely to sustain the perfect image that was crafted by the family patriarch, criminal turned politician, Joe Kennedy. All of that hard work could have been in vain […]