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(AP) A man who initially told police gunmen kidnapped his 2 1/2-year-old son was arrested Saturday, accused of committing an "extremely hideous" murder because he was ordered to pay child support, Police Superintendent Warren Riley said. Danny Pla  «Full Post»

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President Bush will host a White House luncheon with some big names this week. The White House Deputy Press Secretary says Bush will sit down for lunch with President-elect Barack Obama and former Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and George H  «Full Post»

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President-elect Barack Obama is looking to expand Martin Luther King Day from its current national day of community service into an ongoing commitment to help the needy. In the coming days, Obama's inaugural committee will launch a Web site to lin  «Full Post»

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Conservative political commentator Ann Coulter has turned her right wing hot air toward the incoming First Lady, calling Michelle Obama a Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis wannabe in a book to be published next week. In "Guilty: Liberal 'Victims' and the  «Full Post»

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AP - FREEPORT, Bahamas - John Travolta said Saturday he and his wife Kelly Preston are "heartbroken" over the death of their chronically ill 16-year-old son, who collapsed at the family's vacation home on Grand Bahama. Police Superintendent Basil  «Full Post»

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AP - WASHINGTON - New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson on Sunday announced that he was withdrawing his nomination to be President-elect Barack Obama's commerce secretary amid a grand jury investigation into how some of his political donors won a lucrative  «Full Post»

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Soul legend James Brown will be honored with his own New York City street behind the famed Apollo Theater. The block behind the theatre, which spurred his rise to fame, has been officially co-named James Brown Way. The singer's name was among 4  «Full Post»

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Dr. Dre's son, Andre Young Jr., died from an overdose of heroin and morphine, the Los Angeles County Department of Coroner confirmed to PEOPLE on Friday. "This case has been closed, it's been ruled an accident due to morphine and heroin intoxicati  «Full Post»

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AP - NEW YORK - No name on the marquee was more pleasing to theater owners in 2008 than Will Smith, according to a survey of movie exhibitors. Smith, star of "Hancock" and "Seven Pounds," was voted the star who generated the most box office revenu  «Full Post»

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AP - NASSAU, Bahamas - John Travolta's teenage son, Jett, died in the Bahamas after falling ill and hitting his head at his family's vacation home, police said Friday. A house caretaker found Jett, 16, unconscious in a bathroom late Friday morning. H  «Full Post»

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President-elect Barack Obama will have a Commander in Chief's Ball during his inauguration with military personnel, their spouses and those wounded fighting in the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as guests. In announcing this Thursday, offici  «Full Post»

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A delightful display of planets and the moon will occur on New Year's Eve for anyone wishing to step outside and look up just after sunset. Venus, brighter than all other planets and stars, will dangle just below the thin crescent moon in the sout  «Full Post»

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The Obama family will move to Washington D.C. this weekend, according to the Barack Obama's transition team. "The president-elect will be here in Washington to continue work on an economic recovery plan," the team announced. He, his wife, Miche  «Full Post»

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The Presidential Inaugural Committee has announced an essay contest that offers participants a chance to witness President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration in person, reports the Associated Press. Ten winners will get tickets to the Jan. 20 swear  «Full Post»

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One of the teenagers arrested in the "Jena Six" case has been hospitalized after shooting himself in the chest, reports the Associated Press. Mychal Bell, one of six black teens charged with beating a white classmate at Jena High School in Decembe  «Full Post»

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Bristol Palin, the daughter of Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, and her fiance, Levi Johnston, have given birth to a boy, named Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston, according to TMZ. Bristol delivered Tripp on Sunday. "I'm going to tak  «Full Post»

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A dozen pioneers of the civil rights movement will be honored with stamps scheduled for release Feb. 21 in New York, the postal service announced Monday. Included are writer and lecturer Mary Church Terrell; journalist Mary White Ovington; J.R. Cl  «Full Post»

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The New York Times is reporting that the development of a hotel backed by rap mogul Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter has been put on hold due to the ailing economy. In 2007, the rapper invested in a real estate development venture called J Hotels which acquir  «Full Post»

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President-elect Barack Obama's vacation was briefly darkened by a power outage on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. Obama is staying in a $9 million, five-bedroom oceanfront house near downtown Honolulu with his wife Michelle and his daughters Malia an  «Full Post»

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A candidate for the Republican National Committee chairmanship is trying to explain why he included a song titled "Barack the Magic Negro" on a CD that he sent to committee members as a Christmas gift. As previously reported, the song, set to the  «Full Post»

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BET and TV One, the television networks aimed primarily at a black audience, haven't paid much attention to presidential inaugurations before. This time will be different. Both are planning extensive coverage for Jan. 20, when Barack Obama is swor  «Full Post»

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Late actor and comedian Bernie Mac ranks highest on Legacy.com's "Top 10 Legacies of the Year" for 2008, receiving more than 13,000 entries to his online Guest Book hosted by the site. Condolences poured in throughout the year to Legacy.com  «Full Post»

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(AFP) - Stars of Hollywood including Halle Berry and Steven Spielberg and bosses of high-tech giants like Google and Microsoft are opening their wallets to help fund Barack Obama's inauguration party. Obama, in keeping with his vow to purge US pol  «Full Post»

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Detroit News - From kiddie rapper to the industry's hottest artist, here are 10 moments that shaped the career of Lil Wayne, who will perform Friday at Joe Louis Arena. 1. October 1997 -- The arrival: Alongside fellow Cash Money Records label mate  «Full Post»

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(AFP) - President-elect Barack Obama has replaced US President George W. Bush as the most admired man in America, according to a poll published Friday in the USA Today newspaper. One-third of the 1,008 respondents surveyed named Obama as their fir  «Full Post»