Category: National News

Amid a fractured economy and fickled job market, President Obama outpaced fundraising projections to raise $86 million for his re-election campaign and the Democratic Party over the last three months. Between April 1 and June 30, Obama garnered more than $47 million for his Obama for America campaign and an additional $38 million for the […]

Throughout the media circus that surrounded the murder trial of Casey Anthony, Judge Belvin Perry is the one person that many claim brought dignity to the proceedings. Now the Tuskegee University grad is thought of as a star in the legal field. Several gossip websites are reporting that Perry is in line for his own […]

Instead of charging you an abstract, nominal fee to generate extra money, banks are cashing in by selling your shopping habits to retailers. The new strategy could rake in $1.7 billion for banks by 2015, according to CNN. Here’s how it works: retailers describe the type of customer they’d like to target based on how […]

The media’s obsession with the Casey Anthony murder trial has brought attention to an unspoken and significant question: If Casey’s daughter had been Black, Hispanic or Asian, would the case have garnered as much attention? Known as “tot mom” by HLN’s host Nancy Grace, Casey Anthony was acquitted July 5 of a first-degree murder charge, […]

In a 2-1 decision July 1 by the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the ban on the use of race-based criteria in making Michigan’s public education, public contracting and public employment decisions was reversed. The Court’s opinion, with Judge Julia Smith Gibbons dissenting, held that amending the state constitution using Proposition 2 “modifies Michigan’s […]

Currently, wage earners are not subject to Social Security taxes on earnings in excess of $106, 800. Seven of 10 voters in battleground political states want these high-salaried Americans to pay their fair share for Social Security, according to a new poll. The poll was conducted by private political research firm Lake Research Partners and […]

Philadelphia experienced one of the bloodiest weekends in recent memory when a spate of violence from June 24 to June 26 left 32 people shot, including five dead. According to Philadelphia Fox affiliate WTXF, authorities said the violence spurred from nine separate incidents across the city, including shootings at a bar and recreation center. One […]

In today’s technology-driven world, it’s rare to see someone not attached to a Blackberry, iPad or MacBook. Individuals have become so dependent on these snazzy devices that often they don’t realize that the very thing they crave and “just can’t live without” can also be the most dangerous thing they’ve ever encountered. Many people are […]

ATLANTA (AP) — As American colleges and universities gear up to meet a presidential goal to deepen the nation’s pool of college grads, historically black institutions face extra pressure from threats to the financial support that many of their students depend on, the presidents of some colleges said Thursday. About 100 presidents of historically black […]

President Obama announced withdrawal plans for the war in Afghanistan on June 22 – taking a step forward on the promise he made during the 2008 presidential campaign to end U.S. involvement in wars in the Middle East. In his speech, Obama said that he would begin drawing down by the end of this year, […]

More GOP candidates have been encouraged to enter the 2012 presidential race as plummeting approval ratings and an anemic economic recovery, along with frustration among Democrats have put President Obama in a vulnerable political position, The Hill reports. Republican strategists and lawmakers believe that President Obama’s political weaknesses render him beatable in the 2012 race, […]