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Earl W. Stafford, center, reviews plans with son Earl Jr. and wife Amanda at his Centreville office. It was billed as the biggest, most eye-popping of the inauguration hotel packages: the JW Marriott's $1 million "build-your-own-ball" offer. You get 300 Read More...
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The image of the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. standing on the lawn at Grant Park in Chicago, tears streaming down his face as he listened to America's first black president address thousands of adoring supporters, is sure to be one of the iconic image of the Read More...
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Family members of Sean Bell had their first ever meeting with federal prosecutors Tuesday. The meeting came almost two years after Bell died in a hail of 50 bullets outside the Queens nightclub Kalua, when undercover cops fired at Bell and his group, Read More...
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A longtime friend of Barack and Michelle Obama's has been appointed as a senior adviser to the incoming president. Valerie Jarrett was a senior adviser to President-elect Barack Obama's presidential campaign. var CNN_ArticleChanger = new CNN_imageChanger('cnnImgChngr','/2008/POLITICS/11/15/transition.appointments/imgChng/p1-0.init.exclude.html',1,1); Read More...
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ABC News has learned that President-elect Obama has offered the White House chief of staff job to Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill. Emanuel, a knowledgeable source tells ABC News, has not yet given his answer. The sharp-tongued, sharp-elbowed, keenly intelligent Read More...
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AP – This undated photo provided by the Sumter, (S.C.) Police Dept. shows T.J. Darrisaw. T.J. Darrisaw a 12-year-old … QUENTIN PATRICK An ex-convict who thought he was being robbed gunned down a 12-year-old trick-or-treater, spraying nearly 30 rounds Read More...
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A man who jumped 60 feet to his death from an El Paso, Texas freeway interchange known as the "Spaghetti Bowl" on Thursday left a note with a message for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama. About 7:45 a.m., police responded to a report Read More...
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A furor over racial profiling in Palo Alto eased Friday as the city's police chief apologized for a directive that appeared to order officers to stop African Americans on the streets in an effort to solve a rash of robberies. Chief Lynne Johnson said Read More...
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Gov. Sarah Palin, campaigning Thursday in Cape Girardeau, Mo., as poll numbers flagged. A growing number of voters have concluded that Senator John McCain ’s running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, is not qualified to be vice president, weighing down Read More...
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Noted author and humorist Bill Cosby recently took historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to task for not making their alumni give back. Cosby was the keynote speaker during the Oct. 7th dinner session of the three-day, ''Straight Talk Symposium Read More...
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A laska enters its 50th-anniversary year in the glow of an improbable and highly memorable event: the nomination of Gov. Sarah Palin as the Republican vice presidential candidate. For the first time ever, an Alaskan is making a serious bid for national Read More...
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In just 8 days, America may well elect its first black president. Throughout the long campaign, race has been an omnipresent issue with many asking whether whites and some blacks would reject Senator Obama because of his race. Most news outlets and commentators Read More...
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Julia Hudson At a press conference Saturday evening, the older sister of singer/actress Jennifer Hudson pleaded for the return of her missing son at the family's church on the South Side of Chicago. "All I ask, I don't care who you are, just let my baby Read More...
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Bob Hiett, 64, listening on Wednesday to a speech by Senator Barack Obama at a Democratic rally in Richmond, Va. Senator Barack Obama is showing surprising strength among portions of the political coalition that returned George W. Bush to the White House Read More...
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Authorities are questioning William Balfour in connection with the deaths, but he has not been charged. Police are questioning a man in connection with the deaths of Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson's mother and brother, according to published reports. Read More...
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