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Yahoo Expands Maternity Leave After Banning Telecommuting

Source: Lisa Fernandez and John Schuppe / CNBC Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, who sparked an uproar and hurt her image as a working mom when she banned telecommuting two months ago, is now offering employees generous new family leave benefits. Under the new policy, both mothers and fathers can take up to eight weeks of paid child leave, [...]

Disappointed By Draft Position, Geno Smith Fires Agents

Source: Mike Garafolo / USA Today Geno Smith thought he would be a top-10 draft pick, maybe even first overall. Instead, he went in the second round. And now apparently, his agents have paid the price. Smith has fired his representatives and will now hire a new agent, according to a person informed of Smith’s move. [...]

FDA Allows ‘Morning After Pill’ To Be Sold To Some Teenagers Without A Prescription

Source: Matthew Herper / Forbes If a teenage girl can get a learner’s permit, she can now probably get the morning-after pill to prevent pregnancy after unprotected sex. But advocates of the emergency contraceptive say that is still not enough access. The Food and Drug Administration announced this afternoon that it had approved the Plan B contraceptive, [...]

Morehouse Prez Says Philly Pastor Never Disinvited

Source: Morehouse.edu By President John Silvanus Wilson Jr. ’79 Dear Morehouse Community: From the start of my presidency, I have emphasized the need to increase our institution’s “signal-to-noise ratio.” By that, I simply mean that we must increasingly focus our attention on important matters to the exclusion of distractions. A few months ago, I was [...]

ESPN: Jaguars WR Justin Blackmon Suspended (VIDEO)

John Clayton discusses Jaguars wide receiver Justin Blackmon’s four-game suspension for violating the NFL’s substance abuse policy.

Morehouse Disinvites Prominent Pastor After Obama Criticism

Source: Andrew Johnson / National Review Online A prominent African-American pastor and alumnus of the historically-black Morehouse college has been disinvited from the school’s graduation ceremonies after penning an op-ed critical of President Obama, who is scheduled to give the commencement address. DON’T MISS: Morehouse Prez Says Philly Pastor Never Disinvited  Earlier this month, Reverend Kevin Johnson, the senior pastor [...]

Kermit Gosnell’s Murder Trial Goes To Jury (VIDEO)

Source: AP / 6ABC.com  PHILADELPHIA  – A jury has begun deliberating in the capital murder trial of a Philadelphia abortion doctor charged with killing a patient and four babies. Prosecutors say 72-year-old Kermit Gosnell routinely performed abortions past the state’s 24-week limit and killed babies born alive because he did not know how to do a [...]

Jon Stewart Slams Congress For Only Fixing The Part Of The Sequester That Affects Them (VIDEO)

The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on Facebook Source: Matt Wilstein / Mediaite Monday night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart turned his attention to the U.S. Congress, or as he defined them, using his own version of Urban Dictionary, “Do-Nothing F@#ktards who couldn’t solve a problem if it was eating them [...]

Jackson Looked Like ‘Cancer Patient’ Who Came Home To Die, Medic Says

Source:  Jeff Gottlieb and Corina Knoll / Los Angeles Times The Los Angeles paramedic who answered the emergency call to the Holmby Hills mansion where Michael Jackson lived said that the condition of the singer resembled that of a cancer patient who had come home to die. Richard Senneff testified Tuesday that Jackson’s body was pale and so [...]

40 Dismissed LAPD Cops Want Cases Reviewed After Dorner

Source: Joel Rubin / Los Angeles Times In the wake of Christopher Dorner‘s claim that his firing from the Los Angeles Police Department was a result of corruption and bias, Chief Charlie Beck vowed to reexamine the cases of former officers who believed they had been wrongly expelled from the force. Forty officers have come forward asking department officials [...]