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Did Anyone See "Monday Night RAW" wrestling with Shaq?
Shaquille O'Neal hosts 'Monday Night Raw,' gets physical After getting shunned by White House security on Sunday, new Cavaliers center Shaquille O'Neal(notes) made his way over to the Verizon Center
Monthly $10,000 Scholarships For Minority and Female Students
Awards To Be Given Away July, August and September 2009 -- Nationwide - DiversityScholarships.com is giving away a $10,000 scholarship every single month to a high school or college student who i
What a Great Week for Chris Brown: Rehabilitation of his career is due in part to some Newlyweds
The rehabilitation of Brown's career is due in large part to Kevin and Jill Heinz, the Minnesota newlyweds who along with their wedding party danced down the aisle to the singer's 2008 hit, 'Forever.'
Haitian migrant shipwreck kills 15, dozens missing
MIAMI (Reuters) - At least 15 Haitian migrants drowned and more than 65 were missing after their wooden sail boat hit a reef and sank off the Turks and Caicos islands, local police and the U.S. Coast
CitizenLink: An Atmospheric Change for President Obama
...Here's what the Christian Conservatives are saying... After months of generally getting whatever he asked for, the president is now facing opposition not only from conservatives, but also from
Jon Gosselin: 'I'm Single'
After a romantic trip to Saint-Tropez with Hailey Glassman and a double date in the Hamptons with Kate Major, Jon Gosselin now says he's happily flying solo. "At this point ... I'm single – per se,"
New Rule: Not Everything in America Has to Make a Profit
...Some things we just didn't do for money. The United States always defined capitalism, but it didn't used to define us. But now it's becoming all that we are. Did you know, for example, that there
Debate Intensifies Over {Immigrant} Deportations
HOUSTON — The Obama administration is vastly expanding a federal effort begun under President George W. Bush to identify and deport illegal immigrants held in local jails. But here in the city where t
In 2 {Israeli} West Bank Settlements, a Sign of Hope for a Deal
MODIIN ILLIT, West Bank — Seen from afar, this fast-growing settlement embodies everything that the Obama administration wants to address through its demand for a freeze on settlement building: it sit
Partisan or Not, a Tough Course on Health Care
WASHINGTON — The decision by Senate Democratic leaders last week to devote more time to winning Republican support for a health care overhaul has allowed President Obama to keep alive the possibility
Unmasking Racism in Nursing
As nurses, we like to believe we rise above attitudes that would harm our patients or ourselves. But a more honest self-examination might find we sometimes harbor racist feelings toward our own collea
Boxing tragically loses ‘a good guy’
Vernon Forrest won the Marvin Kohn Good Guy Award in 2003 in a vote of members of the Boxing Writers Association of America, a richly deserved honor for a man who always was looking for ways to share
'So You Think You Can Dance': A Tribute to Breast Cancer Fighters
On Wednesday's episode of "So You Think You Can Dance," contestants Ade and Melissa performed a contemporary routine inspired by breast cancer to Maxwell's cover of Kate Bush's "This Woman's Work." B
How to Disagree Without Being Disagreeable
The Civility Project is not calling for unity—just respect. A Republican and a Democrat walk into a bar — a coffee bar, that is. That's the plan, anyway. But, as Republican Mark DeMoss and Democr
Judge Finds F.D.N.Y. Firefighter Exams excluded hundreds of Blacks & Hispanics
New York City used tests that discriminated against black and Hispanic applicants to the Fire Department and had little relation to firefighting, a federal judge in Brooklyn ruled on Wednesday, dealin