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Washington (CNN) – John Kerry was overwhelmingly confirmed Tuesday as the 68th secretary of state by his colleagues in the U.S. Senate. The vote was 94-3, with Republican Senators John Cornyn, Ted Cruz and James Inhofe voting no. Kerry voted present on his own nomination. Earlier in the day he received the nod of the […]
ABC’s Chris Cuomo is headed to CNN to host a new morning show, the network announced Tuesday. New CNN Worldwide president Jeff Zucker said in a statement that Cuomo, currently the anchor of “20/20,” will “have a major role in a new CNN morning show and across the network, anchoring and reporting on major events.” […]
Barnes & Noble’s top store executive Mitchell Klipper has told the Wall Street Journal (subscription required) that the company plans the closure of at least 20 stores a year for the next decade. Since 2003, the company has shut an average of 15 stores a year – but it also opened more than 30 per […]
Just days after a Maryland-based Cub Scout pack was forced to back down on a non-discriminatory pledge because of a reference to sexual orientation, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) might be changing its national stance toward the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. NBC cites a number of “scouting officials and outsiders familiar […]
*Oprah Winfrey will sit down with Cissy Houston in her New Jersey home for her first in-depth interview since the death of her daughter Whitney Houston in February. Oprah talks to Cissy about when and what she knew about Whitney’s drug use, how she really felt about her daughter’s marriage to R&B singer Bobby Brown […]
hellobeautiful.com I’m pretty excited for this movie–simply because I am a huge Angela Bassett fan. “Betty & Coretta” follows Dr. Betty Shabazz (played by Mary J. Blige) and Coretta Scott King (played byAngela Bassett) as they continue their lives as single mothers, after their husbands, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., were assassinated. Lifetime TV recently released a full trailer for the film which […]
25 year old Macaulay Onitcha, has been arrested by Nigerian police for burying his 2 month old born daughter, Edna Macaulay, alive. Macaulay took the young baby to the bushes, dug a shallow grave, threw the baby in the grave and covered it with sand. Fortunately for the little angel, someone witnessed him burying her […]
A 20-year-old Houston mother is accused of abusing her 1-year-old son because she was jealous and thought his dad loved him more than her. Lessielee Ann King was charged with felony injury to a child. The baby’s father told investigators with the Humble Police Department that he grew concerned after finding various unexplained bruises on […]
*He’s at it again. Last year, Newark Mayor Cory Booker saved a neighbor from a burning building. On Thursday, he rescued a pooch from likely freezing to death in the bitter cold. ABC 7 reporter Toni Yates saw two abandoned dogs on a Newark street as temperatures dipped into the teens. She tweeted about it, […]
*Remember that incident last June when Atlanta mega-church pastor Creflo Dollar Jr. was arrested after he allegedly assaulted his teenage daughter? They got into a tussle when he objected to her going out late at night to a party. Well, it’s been dismissed according to Fayette County State Court Solicitor Jamie K. Inagawa Dollar, one […]
A new book claims that girls with a strong father figure have higher self-esteem. See: the first daughters. Thankfully, it’s no secret that Barack…
When a Detroit great grandmother was being mugged by an armed attacker, she reached for her gun and began busting caps at the man. SEE ALSO: 2009 Tour Rider: Lance’s Dope-Free Comeback A Lie Ramona Taylor-Kamate told Fox 2 News Detroit that she was on a bus on the city’s west side around 11:30 a.m. […]