From The New York Observer:
Bill Clinton said he’d do “whatever they want” with respect to the vetting process and information he’d have to disclose to the Obama administration to help Hillary Clinton become Obama’s secretary of state.
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Somalia’s increasingly brazen pirates are building sprawling stone houses, cruising in luxury cars, marrying beautiful women — even hiring caterers to prepare Western-style food for their hostages.
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New claims for unemployment benefits jumped last week to a 16-year high, the Labor Department said Thursday, providing more evidence of a rapidly weakening job market expected to get even worse next year.
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Democratic officials say that Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano is a leading contender for the job of secretary of homeland security in President-elect Barack Obama’s administration.
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The challenge of a green economy is the next American frontier. Can Obama live up to his words about new energy?
From TechCrunch.com:
Expect Yahoo’s share price to jump tomorrow - Jerry Yang will be stepping down as CEO of the company, a job that he took on an interim basis in June 2007.
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Recently AL Qaeda’s #2, Ayman al-Zawahri declared that Barack Obama was an house negro and was the opposite of black leader Malcolm X. While many have compared Obama to Martin Luther King, not as many people have noted the differences and similarities between Obama and Malcolm X.
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From theroot.com:
The lingering tension between gays and lesbians and the African-American community over the passage of California’s Proposition 8—banning same-sex marriage—isn’t a laughing matter, but it is absurd. It has all the makings of a Tyler Perry movie starring the casts of Big Love and The L Word.
Diary of a Mad Black Mormon Lesbian Nun? Now showing in California and coming soon to a theater near you.
Master P wants to show a new generation how to help hip-hop profit.
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