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After years of effort it looks like the fight against HIV/AIDS has taken a turn for the better! A panel of federal health advisers has endorsed the first drug shown to prevent HIV infection in healthy people, clearing the way for a potentially landmark approval in the 30-year-old effort against the virus that causes AIDS.  […]

Chicago (CNN) — A Chicago jury has found William Balfour, Jennifer Hudson’s former brother-in-law, guilty of three counts of murder and four other counts related to the 2008 slayings of the entertainer’s mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew. He faces a maximum sentence of life in prison. Balfour’s lawyer had argued that there was no forensic […]

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In the first 90 minutes after news of President Obama’s support of gay marriage Wednesday, his campaign banked $1 million in spontaneous contributions.

Bad boys beware — as early as next month, the TV showCOPS will hit the streets with Toledo police officers capturing whatever mischief and mayhem the officers respond to.

George Zimmerman officially plead not guilty to second degree murder in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in a Florida court today, ABC News reports. SEE ALSO: Barack Obama’s Young Life, Relationships Revealed In Biography Mark O’Mara, Zimmerman’s lawyer, entered the plea in the absence of his client. O’Mara waived Zimmerman’s right to a speedy trial, […]

Jesse Lee Peterson, the controversial conservative preacher and regular guest of Sean Hannity, said in a recent video it was a mistake to allow women the right to vote. In a video uploaded in March but publicized this Monday by Raw Story, Peterson, who runs an organization calling for Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny […]

WASHINGTON — In a nod to a dramatic shift in public opinion, Barack Obama on Wednesday became the first sitting president to announce his support for same-sex marriage. In a sit-down interview with ABC’s Robin Roberts, Obama completed what has been a markedly long and oft-mocked evolution on the matter. “I’ve always been adamant that […]

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Christopher Peña, 35, a former manager and seven-year Burger King veteran, says he was unfairly let go from the company last September, three months after he disclosed his HIV status to a supervisor.

An awkward moment occurred at Mitt Romney’s town hall event in Cleveland, Ohio on Monday when an audience member, in the process of asking him a question, asserted that President Barack Obama should be tried for treason. Romney remained silent during the question-and-answer session, only to say that he “of course” did not agree with […]

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I can’t. A mother has been arrested after admitting to police she burned her 15-month-old son’s genitals with a hair straightening iron.

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A Colorado elementary school student was suspended from school this week for singing a lyric from a popular LMFAO song, “I’m sexy and I know it.”

http://abclocal.go.com/ LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The discovery of a man’s body Sunday in the stable area of Churchill Downs was being investigated as a homicide, but there appears to be no connection to the race track or the Kentucky Derby, police said. “At this point we don’t have anything pointing to the fact that this had […]