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Muhammad Ali visits Giants clubhouse
2:55 PM on 03/10/2010
SCOTTSDALE, Arizona (AP) - Meeting Ali will be among the highlights of the spring for many of the Giants...
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Despite setbacks, Obama remains more popular than Congress
2:32 PM on 03/10/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Americans have come to detest Congress ever more deeply as it nears the end of a nasty fight over health care...
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New report says nearly half of all black women have Genital Herpes
2:21 PM on 03/10/2010
The Center For Disease Control has released alarming new test results that claim 48% of Black women between ages 14 and 49 have herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2)...
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LA Angels' Hunter calls black Latino players 'imposters'
1:44 PM on 03/10/2010
PHOENIX (AP) - Torii Hunter has called black Latino baseball players "impostors" when it comes to the appearance of the number of African-Americans in the major leagues...
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Disgraced ex-sprinter Marion Jones finds new life in WNBA
12:18 PM on 03/10/2010
TULSA, Oklahoma (AP) - Marion Jones has signed with the WNBA's Tulsa Shock, hoping to launch a new career after losing five Olympic medals for using performance-enhancing drugs...
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Obama enters home stretch on health care reform
11:22 AM on 03/10/2010
VIDEO - President Obama is making his closing arguments for a health care overhaul, pushing a new anti-fraud plan...
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Vick met by protests while receiving Courage Award
10:50 AM on 03/10/2010
BALTIMORE (AP) - A humbled but defiant Michael Vick was honored Tuesday night as one of 32 NFL players to receive the Ed Block Courage Award...
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Was the assassin of Martin Luther King Jr. after a $100,000 KKK bounty?
10:39 AM on 03/10/2010
Was James Earl Ray, the assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., motivated at least in part to kill the civil rights leader by a $100,000 bounty offered by a Mississippi Ku Klux Klan group?...
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DMX back in jail for alleged probation violation
9:08 AM on 03/10/2010
PHOENIX (AP) - Authorities in Arizona say rapper DMX has been arrested for allegedly violating his probation by using drugs...
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Minority births set to be the majority this year
9:00 AM on 03/10/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - This is part of a historic trend in which minorities are expected to become the U.S. majority over the next 40 years...
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Rush Limbaugh hurls racist 'massa' comment at David Paterson
8:51 AM on 03/10/2010
Rush Limbaugh hurled a racist comment towards embattled New York Governor David Paterson on his radio show Tuesday...
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Torii Hunter: black Dominican players are 'imposters'
6:01 AM on 03/10/2010
USA Today continues its five-part round table on improving the game, and today they take on a monster: race. Torii Hunter throws a big freakin' bomb:
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Alzheimer's cases rising among blacks, Hispanics
5:07 PM on 03/09/2010
VIDEO - It's an increase in Alzheimer's cases at a time when heart disease, breast cancer and prostate cancer deaths are all going down...
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Obama supporters rally for health care reform votes
4:22 PM on 03/09/2010
VIDEO - Protesters marched outside a Washington conference of the big insurance companies that are opposing reform on Tuesday...
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10-year-old becomes health care reform lobbyist
3:44 PM on 03/09/2010
VIDEO - Marcelas Owens has been campaigning for changes in the health care system since his mother died after she fell ill and lost her job and her insurance...
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Oldest African-American, aged 113, dies in Detroit
3:44 PM on 03/09/2010
Daisey Bailey, believed to the oldest person of African descent in the world, died of organ failure at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit on Sunday, 23 days before her 114th birthday...
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Allen Iverson going through 'tough times'
3:20 PM on 03/09/2010
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Exiled Philadelphia 76ers guard Allen Iverson says he's experiencing "tough times" a week after it was decided he would not return to the NBA team and his wife filed for divorce...
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McNabb, T.O. teaming up again - for TV show
1:54 PM on 03/09/2010
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Donovan McNabb will be throwing passes to Terrell Owens again...
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Haiti's president heads to Washington to talk aid
12:49 PM on 03/09/2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Haitian President Rene Preval is heading to the U.S. to discuss what is needed to rebuild his shattered country...
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Howard Stern ridicules Sidibe's weight, says she'll never get Hollywood roles
12:31 PM on 03/09/2010
Stern, on the air with his co-host Robin Quivers, also played the speech given by Oprah Winfrey to Sidibe at the Oscars on the program. The hosts said Oprah was lying to her by saying she's going to have a career in Hollywood...
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