LiveScience.com By Stephanie Pappas, Senior Writer Posted February 2nd 2012   There’s no gentle way to put it: People who give in to racism and prejudice may simply be dumb, according to a new study that is bound to stir public controversy. The research finds that children with low intelligence are more likely to hold [...]

Associated Press By Scott Bauer Posted November 14th 2011   MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The effort to recall Wisconsin’s controversial Republican governor is expected to begin Tuesday, although his opponents have yet to come up with a candidate to replace him. The recall effort comes in response to a Wisconsin law passed earlier this year [...]

HuffingtonPost.LatinoVoices.com By Ray Sanchez Posted November 6th 2011   An unprecedented increase in the deportation of undocumented immigrants has left an estimated 5,100 children languishing in U.S. foster homes — a troubling figure that could triple in the coming years, according to a November report from a New York-based advocacy group. The “Shattered Families” report [...]

MSNBC.com Posted July 8th 2011 Under-fire David Cameron announces inquiries into phone hacking, press ethics; paper’s ex-royals editor re-arrested; rival newspaper’s offices raided! LONDON — A former senior aide to British Prime Minister David Cameron was arrested Friday in connection with a phone-hacking scandal that prompted media mogul Rupert Murdoch to close Britain’s biggest-selling Sunday [...]

DailyPolitics.com By Alex Wagner, White House Correspondent Posted February 2nd 2011 Following Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s announcement that he would step down from office in September, President Obama rejected the Egyptian leader’s timetable and called for an immediate transition to a new government in advance of fall elections. “Change must take place,” Obama said in [...]

PoliticsDaily.com By Christopher Webber Posted January 24th 2011 While Republicans’ first act after taking over the House was to vote on repealing the health care reform law, a new poll suggests the public would rather lawmakers focus on jobs. A CBS News/New York Times survey out Thursday found 43 percent of Americans believe the most [...]

Associated Press Posted July 2nd 2010 CLEVELAND — An arbitrator’s ruling means more than 600 Cleveland public school teachers won’t have to reapply for their jobs. Thursday’s decision is final. School district CEO Eugene Sanders says in a statement that officials are disappointed with the ruling but remain committed to transforming the school system. The [...]

Associated Press By Nicole Norfleet Posted June 12th 2010 RALEIGH, N.C. – A haunting 150-year-old photo found in a North Carolina attic shows a young black child named John, barefoot and wearing ragged clothes, perched on a barrel next to another unidentified young boy. Art historians believe it’s an extremely rare Civil War-era photograph of [...]

Msn.com and NBC News Posted May 31st Cutting pipe to fit cap might mean temporary increase, scientists say! WASHINGTON – Preparing the country for the possibility of even worse news, the Obama administration on Sunday warned that BP’s next effort to contain the oil spewing from a damaged well in the Gulf could result in [...]

Chicagotribune.com By Cynthia Dysikes Posted May 27th 2010 Applicants did not wait too long to sue the city over a 1995 hiring test that they deemed discriminatory, court finds After more than a decade of legal wrangling, thousands of black applicants for Chicago firefighting jobs celebrated a Supreme Court ruling Monday that found they did [...]