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Top Dems looking to Obama for health care momentum
9:12 AM on 03/03/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic leaders hope President Obama's unveiling of his final health care package Wednesday will help resuscitate an effort to enact his top domestic priority...
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Bunning gives in, Senate OKs jobless benefits
9:04 AM on 03/03/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Putting a lone senator's cantankerous challenge behind it, the Senate is back to work on a $100 billion-plus bill reviving popular tax breaks and extending longer and more generous jobless benefits...
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DC Council censures Marion Barry over contracts
8:35 AM on 03/03/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - The D.C. Council voted to censure former mayor Marion Barry over a report accusing him of violating conflict-of-interest laws...
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Naomi Campbell allegedly assaults her driver, flees scene
5:53 PM on 03/02/2010
NEW YORK (AP) - Campbell slapped and punched her driver in midtown Manhattan, then hopped out of the car and ran away, a law enforcement official said...
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Slideshow: The 20 best black sitcoms of all time
4:24 PM on 03/02/2010
Since television's inception, African-Americans have been woefully underrepresented. But some shows have been able to break through and find a loyal black audience...
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74-year-old babysitter bites intruder, stops sexual assault
3:50 PM on 03/02/2010
VIDEO - An elderly babysitter is being praised after she fought off an intruder who allegedly sexually assaulted a young girl as she slept in bed...
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Iverson will not return to 76ers
3:42 PM on 03/02/2010
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Allen Iverson's second stint with the Philadelphia 76ers ended on Tuesday when the team announced he would not return for the rest of the NBA season...
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Kentucky's Bunning blocks jobless benefits again
2:56 PM on 03/02/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - To the increasing discomfort of his fellow Republicans, Sen. Jim Bunning again blocked the Senate from extending unemployment benefits and health insurance subsidies for the jobless...
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Lil Wayne sentencing postponed due to court fire
2:42 PM on 03/02/2010
NEW YORK (AP) - Lil Wayne's already delayed jail term in a gun case abruptly got put off again because of a fire in the courthouse where he was due to be sentenced...
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Brooklyn DA: ACORN video activities not a crime
2:19 PM on 03/02/2010
NEW YORK (AP) - ACORN employees videotaped by conservative activists did not commit a crime, the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office said Monday...
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Action - not apathy - is needed from black women on HIV
1:38 PM on 03/02/2010
From Essence Magazine - Every Black female can both protect herself from HIV and help to create an environment where other Black people can safeguard themselves...
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Obama to add some GOP ideas to health care plan
1:09 PM on 03/02/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Obama will incorporate Republican ideas on medical malpractice reform and trying to rid the health care system of waste and abuse...
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Supreme Court looks at reach of Second Amendment
12:37 PM on 03/02/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court appeared willing Tuesday to say that the Constitution's right to possess guns limits state and local regulation of firearms...
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Teen pot and alcohol use rises for first time in a decade
12:17 PM on 03/02/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Alcohol and marijuana use among teens is on the rise, ending a decade-long decline, according to Partnership for a Drug-Free America...
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American law firms went backwards on diversity in 2009
12:12 PM on 03/02/2010
NEW YORK (March 1, 2010) - The American Lawyer's annual Diversity Scorecard, out today, reveals that the percentage of minority attorneys at the country's largest law firms dropped in 2009, the first such decrease in the ten years...
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Obama coins are circulating through New York
11:46 AM on 03/02/2010
VIDEO - They don't look like regular quarters. The small discs actually look fake...
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Tiger Woods returns home from family counseling
11:26 AM on 03/02/2010
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - Tiger Woods is back at home after a week of family counseling in Arizona and is trying to get into a routine that includes golf and fitness...
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Lil Wayne prepares for jail term in NYC gun case
11:06 AM on 03/02/2010
NEW YORK (AP) - Rap star Lil Wayne has left fans and fellow artists with a video blitz as he braces for as much as a year behind bars at the height of his career...
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O.J. Simpson's 'acquittal suit' to be donated
10:56 AM on 03/02/2010
SANTA MONICA, California (AP) - With O.J. Simpson giving his agreement from prison, a judge approved a plan Monday to donate the suit the former NFL star was wearing when he was acquitted of murder to the Smithsonian...
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Fashion label still reaching out to earthquake victims
10:08 AM on 03/02/2010
FROM THE FASHION JOURNAL In the midst of cries of donor fatigue, one New York City fashion designer continues the fight for earthquake victims. Priestess NYC's Cody Ross had been donating 15 percent of the seasons' sales to the Red Cross for the victims in Haiti and has continued his...
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- Democrats' crack-cocaine compromise is still 'racist'
- How 'Bloody Sunday' changed America
- Three reasons why Obama should take small steps to save jobs
- Why audiences should opt-out of 'Cop Out'
- Van Jones returns: 'I'm more committed to the politics of hope now'
- Todd Bridges buries troubled past in 'Killing Willis'
- Lee Daniels: We need to get out of 'Huxtable' mode
- Slideshow: 20 films that uplifted black America
- Slideshow: 15 films that hurt black America
- 'High School Musical' star Corbin Bleu talks to theGrio about new Broadway role
- Slideshow: The 25 most influential albums by African-Americans
- Obama proposes $900 million in grants to stop school drop outs
- Charles Rangel should resign in light of ethics panel ruling
- Obama, Republicans clash at heated health summit
- Fox News contributor Angela McGlowan to run for Congress in Mississippi
- NY Gov. Paterson has mere $620G to battle $12 million-man Andrew Cuomo
- The new Obama is the old Obama
- AP sources: Woods likely to return at Masters
- Michael Jordan to buy NBA's Bobcats
- First black figure skating pair leaps over color barriers & national borders
- Slideshow: The 15 best dunkers in NBA history
- Where's the diversity at the Winter Olympics?
- Slideshow: African-Americans at the Winter games
- Certain carnival dances said to come from the days of slavery
- Selma, a town rich with history, seeks new legacy
- 'Black Ski' gets a lift from the First Family
- Slideshow: A glimpse of Hawaii's gorgeous landscape
- How to celebrate Black History Month in the Big Apple
- Afro-centric brides on parade
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