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'Scandal' Gets More Scandalous - Again!
How could “Scandal” possibly get any more scandalous? Well, when Shonda Rhimes is in charge, the sky’s the limit. “Access Hollywood” caught up with Tony…
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01:57 PMKanye West, Rick Ross & Big Sean Perform 'Sanctified' On …
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01:46 PMCNN's 'Chicagoland' Premiere: Reality Show Glitz vs. …
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01:32 PMIllinois Cut Pollution Equivalent Of A Million Cars Through …
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01:06 PMThere Are Actually A Few Upsides To This Year's …
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03:13 PMNicki Minaj Shares No-Makeup, Topless Selfies
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01:26 PMFacebook To Delete Posts For Illegal Gun Sales
NATIONAL NEWS
CNN is experimenting with a new weekly night show hosted by Don Lemon. The Wrap reported Wednesday that “The Don Lemon Show” will air “tentatively”…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Soul-singers spanning generations wowed the White House on Thursday as Melissa Etheridge, Patti LaBelle and Janelle Monae warmed up the place for…
WORLD NEWS
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The International Criminal Court on Friday convicted a rebel leader of charges including murder and pillage over a deadly attack…
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — A former girlfriend of Oscar Pistorius testified Friday at the double-amputee runner’s murder trial that he always carried a firearm,…
ENTERTAINMENT
On Wednesday night, Arsenio Hall had Prince as a guest on his show. And Thursday night, he had Rick Ross, who brought out Kanye West…
How could “Scandal” possibly get any more scandalous? Well, when Shonda Rhimes is in charge, the sky’s the limit. “Access Hollywood” caught up with Tony…
POLITICS
WASHINGTON (AP) — One by one, President Barack Obama’s warnings to Russia are being brushed aside by President Vladimir Putin, who appears to only be…
Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) kicked off the 2014 Conservative Political Action Conference today in National Harbor, Maryland. Scott — who was one of the first…
BUSINESS
The U.S. economy has been skating on an icy patch in advance of the February jobs report being released Friday. Hiring skidded in December and…
Stocks moved higher in morning trading Thursday after the government reported that the number of people filing for unemployment benefits fell last week to the…
SPORTS
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Darren Sharper will return to court on Friday where his attorneys will argue that the former NFL All-Pro safety should be…
D.J. Augustin scored 26 points off the bench and Joakim Noah had a triple-double as the Chicago Bulls beat the Detroit Pistons 105-94 on Wednesday…
HEALTH
Electronic cigarettes exist in a limbo world of laws, even as use of the battery-powered nicotine vaporizer grows across the nation. The U.S. Food and…
AP Just try sugar-coating this: The World Health Organization says your daily sugar intake should be just 5 percent of your total calories – half…
EDITORS PICKS
Ever wince when someone else stubs their toe? It turns out that the empathy we feel actually can be influenced by racial bias, and it…
FEATURES
Race issues on college campuses have seemed to prevail over time with disregard to the humans who are deeply impacted by it, the students. Students…
FAITH
Our favorite singing sisters Mary Mary are back for Season 3, premiering Thursday February 27th at 9|8c on WE tv. Click through the below stunning…
“Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you’re still trying, keep it up! You’re right on track.” – Matthew…
FOCUS
Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) took to the Senate floor Wednesday night to slam fellow senators for what he called their “shameful” vote to block the…
I’m still extremely pleased that Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave won Best Picture at the Academy Awards on Sunday. And I’m even happier that,…
CULTURE
A pregnant woman in labor was robbed at gunpoint in Annapolis, Md. early Sunday, according to local media. A witness saw the woman and her…
Just months after stepping down as head of the nation’s largest civil rights organization, former NAACP President Benjamin Jealous is changing his career from an…
VIEWS
As a black man, my heart aches over the disproportionate numbers of men and boys of color left back by schools, left out of jobs…
There is a crisis that demands our urgent attention. For the last four decades, this country has been obsessed with expanding the number of people…
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