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Washington — Many juvenile killers are stuck in life for prison for the murder they have committed. But is it right to keep a juvenile in jail for the rest of his life, and not give him or her a chance at redemption? The debate is one that many are passionate about on both sides […]

SAN FRANCISCO-President Barack Obama was greeted by a group a singing left-wing hecklers at a recent fund raiser in San Francisco. The group was protesting the government’s treatment of Bradley Manning, a former soldier, who is being detained and charged with leaking military information through WikiLeaks. Here is the song: Dear Mr. President we honor […]

TRENTON, N.J. — Nine-time Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis should be allowed to continue his bid for the New Jersey Senate because Republicans have failed to prove he doesn’t live in the state, a judge ruled Wednesday. Administrative Law Judge John Schuster III recommended that a petition to strip Lewis’ name from the June primary […]

Washington — With rising gas prices, unemployment rising for some communities, and the debate over the budget in Washington, many Americans have no real reason to be happy nowadays. A recent poll has found that Americans are more pessimistic about the future since the first two months of Obama’s presidency when the Great Recession was […]

DETROIT- The manager for the Detroit Public Schools has sent layoff notices to all of the district’s 5,466 unionized employees to solve their financial emergency .

WASHINGTON — A bold but politically risky plan to cut billions of dollars from the federal budget is coming to a House vote, with insurgent Republicans rallying behind the idea of fundamentally reshaping the government’s role in health care for the elderly and the poor.

TheGrio.Com’s Janelle Richards is reporting that a former gay employee of Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH Coalition has filed a discrimination complaint against Jackson and numerous staff members. The lawsuit was filed in early 2010 with the Chicago Commission on Human Rights by Tommy R. Bennett. The 55-year-old Bennett is an openly gay man who […]

CAMBRIDGE-Defense lawyer John A. Amabile suggested that a mistrial might be possible yesterday after it was revealed that his client, Jabrai Copney, who is on trial for murdering Justin Cosby, was placed in the same transport van with Blayn Jiggetts, his former friend and co-defendant who had just testified against him and allegedly had a […]

ALASKA-Professor Bradford Scharlott of Northern Kentucky University has a paper claiming that Sarah Palin and Bristol Palin pulled off one of the greatest hoaxes in political history, passing off teenage Bristol’s baby, Trig, off as Sarah’s to avoid a political scandal. Gawker reports: Scharlott’s article walks through all the evidence supporting the theory, including the […]

TheGrio’s David A. Love wrote an article today focusing on the birther claims levied against President Obama since he launched his campaign for the presidency in 2007. Recently, the man on the attack, has been wannabe presidential hopeful Donald Trump whose appeared on every network TV show trying to discredit the president from his policies […]

Sacramento Kings fans will likely bid farewell to their beloved underdog basketball team as it heads to new digs in Anaheim. In what many speculate would be the team’s final game, the Kings refused to lay down quietly for the Los Angeles Lakers as the matchup went into overtime. Though the Kings fell eight points […]

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