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Scandal's Kerry Washington Graces The Cover Of Elle Magazine

Source: Maria Puente / USA Today It’s always interesting to learn what the stars might have been had they not become actors, and in the case of Kerry Washington it’s pretty far from her current reality: clinical psychologist. Yes, that’s the career she thought she’d pursue, she tells Elle magazine, where she’s on the cover of the June [...]

Cleveland ‘Hero’ Charles Ramsey: ‘I Don’t Want’ Media Attention, I’m Just An ‘American’ And A ‘Human Being’ (VIDEO)

Source: Matt Wilstein / Mediaite Cleveland’s NBC affiliate WKYC scored an exclusive sit-down interview with the man who discovered missing teens Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight. Charles Ramseyinstantly became famous across the internet after he gave a descriptive and opinionated interview to another local Cleveland reporter Monday evening. Today, Ramsey said he’s just glad the three women got out of [...]

Join Jacquie Hood Martin For Chick-Fil-A Leadercast Simulcast To Washington D.C. Friday May 10th, 2013

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LIVE VIDEO: President Obama And South Korea President Park Geun-hye Hold A Joint Press Conference

JOIN THE LIVE CHAT VISIT WHITEHOUSE.GOV President Obama and President Park Geun-hye hold a joint press Conference at the White House.

Limo Fire Survivor Says Driver ‘Didn’t Do Anything’ to Help

Source:  Katie Kindelan, Alyssa Newcomb, Anthony Costellano / ABC News One of the women who survived a weekend limousine fire, killing a bride and four of her friends celebrating her wedding, says the driver did too little to save her friends, which he has denied. “When he get out from that car, he just opened the door, [...]

Ammonium Nitrate Was Explosive In West Fertilizer Plant Blast

Source: AP / The Huffington Post AUSTIN, Texas — A store of ammonium nitrate is what exploded April 17 at a Central Texas plant, killing 14 people, injuring hundreds and devastating an adjoining town. The finding was expected, and officials had said they were focusing their investigation on the explosive chemical used in many fertilizers, [...]

Willie Manning Execution Set Despite Admission That FBI Hair Analysis Was Wrong

Source:  Emily Lane / Reuters / The Huffington Post JACKSON, Miss., – A Mississippi inmate is facing execution on Tuesday despite an admission last week by federal authorities that statements made during his 1994 murder trial about a hair sample pushed the limits of science and were ‘invalid’. Willie Jerome Manning, 44, was convicted and sentenced [...]

Al Gore Is Now ‘Romney-Rich’

Source:  Dashiell Bennett / The Atlantic Wire / Yahoo! News Al Gore will always be known for suffering one of the most gut-wrenching losses in Electoral College history, but at least he’s found a very nice way to cushion the blow. Instead, of spending eight years dealing with the worst problems the world can throw you, in the years since he [...]

Colo. Cleric Offers To Bury Boston Bombing Suspect’s Body In Muslim Cemetery

Source: AP / CBS News AURORA, COLO.The founder of the organization that built Colorado’s largest mosque is offering to bury suspected Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev in a Denver-area Muslim cemetery. Sheikh Abu-Omar Almubarac said Monday he will pay for a traditional Muslim burial – no headstone, monument or casket – at a plot at a [...]

Man Has Surgery For 134-Pound Scrotum

Source:  Katie Moisse / ABC News For five painful years, Wesley Warren Jr. watched his scrotum slowly swell into a 134-pound mass that hung to his ankles. It all started with a bad dream. “I quickly sat up on the side of the bed after bursting out of an incredible nightmare,” said Warren, 48, recalling the [...]