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LISTEN: Roland’s Cookout Rules

It’s tradition to barbecue or cookout during Memorial Day weekend, in honor of those festivities, Roland Martin compiled a list of rules you need to know for the perfect, stress-free, drama-less cookout.

2 Arrested After U.K. Scrambles Fighter Jets To Intercept Pakistani Passenger Jet From Lahore

Source: AP / CBS News LONDON – British fighter jets were scrambled to escort a Pakistani passenger plane carrying nearly 300 passengers from Lahore to England after an incident on board, British officials said Friday. Essex Police boarded the plane at Stansted and arrested two men “on suspicion of endangerment of an aircraft,” according to [...]

Netflix Original Content Will Likely Double Next Year After ‘House Of Cards’ Success, Executive Says

Source: Alexis Kleinman / The Huffington Post Good news, Netflix-ers! Your favorite streaming video site is planning to double its original programming in 2014, Netflix’s chief content officer Ted Sarandos told The Hollywood Reporter. Netflix wants to change the way Hollywood views Internet content. “After David Fincher directs a series for Netflix, no one else can say, ‘Well, I’m [...]

Lawyer ‘Not Offended’ Kilpatrick Dropped Him

Source: Rober Snell and Tom Greenwood / The Detroit News Detroit — Former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick canned his taxpayer-funded lawyer Thursday after saying their relationship was destroyed, a move that will delay sentencing in the City Hall corruption case. U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds appointed another member of Kilpatrick’s legal team, Harold Gurewitz, to handle pre-sentencing matters. [...]

Conyers Apologizes For Farrakhan’s Anti-Semitic Remarks

Source: Mark Hicks and Candice Williams / The Detroit News U.S. Rep. John Conyers apologized Thursday for Louis Farrakhan’s anti-Semitic remarks made during a speech the Nation of Islam leader gave in Detroit last week. “During this speech, Minister Farrakhan made unacceptable racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic statements, which I condemn in the strongest possible terms,” Conyers [...]

Protester Heckles Pres. Obama During Counterterrorism Speech (VIDEO)

As President Obama outlined a renewed push to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, he was repeatedly interrupted by a protester, Medea Benjamin of advocacy group Code Pink, who accused the president of spurning the rule of law and demanded he immediately close the facility without congressional input. The president chided her for interrupting [...]

Cleveland Hero Charles Ramsey Gets Free Burgers For Life

Source: Matthew DeLuca / NBC News Cleveland’s most camera-ready hero may now also be its best fed. More than a dozen Ohio restaurants and at least one in Pennsylvania have pledged free burgers for life to Charles Ramsey, the Big Mac-munching man who was credited with helping a woman escape from the home where she had [...]

How An Extreme Movie Makeover Saved ‘Fast & Furious’ From Going Direct To DVD

Source:  Brent Lang / TheWrap Roaring into theaters Friday, “Fast & Furious 6″ is expected to generate $80 million or more over the Memorial Day weekend — astounding numbers for a franchise that is more than a decade old, and isn’t “Star Wars” or “Indiana Jones.” But what is lost in all the hype is that [...]

Oklahoma City Thunder Players Tour Moore

Residents of tornado-devastated Moore, Oklahoma got a surprise visit from members of the NBA Oklahoma City Thunder on Thursday. Players toured the damage and met residents. Thunder star Kevin Durant has given one million dollars to the Red Cross. (May 23)

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