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North Korea ‘Probably’ Has Nuclear Missile Capability, Pentagon Says

Source: AP / The Huffington Post WASHINGTON  – North Korea probably has advanced its nuclear knowhow to the point where it could arm a ballistic missile with a nuclear warhead, but the weapon wouldn’t be very reliable, the Defense Intelligence Agency has concluded. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has rattled much of Asia with [...]

Ben Carson Withdraws As Johns Hopkins Commencement Speaker

Source:  Carrie Healey / theGrio Dr. Ben Carson is withdrawing as this year’s commencement speaker at Johns Hopkins University. The announcement came Wednesday in response to recent student petitions to have Carson replaced following his controversial statements about gay marriage. According to the Washington Post, in an e-mail to Paul Rothman, dean of Johns Hopkins Medical School, [...]

George Zimmerman And Trayvon Martin’s Family Clash On Arrest Anniversary

Source: Lauren Effron / ABC News The parents of George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin clashed with emotional statements today, the one year anniversary of the Zimmerman’s arrest for shooting the unarmed Florida teenager. Zimmerman’s mother Gladys Zimmerman posted a two page letter online saying that her son was innocent and was arrested “solely to placate the masses.” Hours [...]

Deadly Tornado Hits Mississippi As Storm System Stretches Across East

Source: Erin McClam and Matthew DeLuca / NBC News A destructive and massive storm system draped itself across half the country Thursday, from the Gulf Coast to Canada and with a wingspan from Maine to the Dakotas. At least one person was killed in Mississippi, where a tornado touched down. Authorities in Kemper County, Miss., along [...]

Business Owner Uses Bat To Fend Off Gunman (VIDEO)

A Chicago business owner survived an armed robbery in Logan Square by using a baseball bat to fight off the gunman.

At Least 2 Killed When Bus Overturns In Texas

Source: John L. Mone / ABC News A chartered bus overturned on a busy highway near Dallas on Thursday, killing at least two people and injuring several others, authorities said. Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Lonny Haschel said the bus was carrying about 30 people when it slid off the busy highway in Irving, just [...]

Police Say Man Deliberately Sliced His Arms With Saws At Calif. Home Depot

Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. Source: ABC News Police say a man deliberately cut himself with saws inside a Los Angeles-area Home Depot store, causing a gruesome scene in front of customers that left him severely injured. West Covina police Cpl. Rudy Lopez says the man was in the store’s tool section Wednesday [...]

North Korea ‘Skating Close To A Dangerous Line,’ Says U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel

Source: Agence France Presse / The Huffington Post North Korea is “skating very close to a dangerous line” with its heated rhetoric and provocative actions, US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told reporters Wednesday. The United States and its allies hoped Pyongyang would tone down its inflammatory language but the American military was prepared for any [...]

Stacey Dash Slams Jay-Z And Beyoncé’s Cuba Trip, Says Couple “Funded A Communist Oppressive Regime”

Source: Bruna Nessif / E! Online Stacey Dash has been very vocal about political issues since the last presidential elections, has now turned her focus to Jay-Z and Beyoncé and their decision to spend their anniversary in Cuba. She’s not very happy about it and she doesn’t think you should be either. Dash tweeted, “Do you care that The Jay Z”s have [...]

Rand Paul: GOP Faces ‘Daunting Task’ With Black Voters

Source: AP / theGrio WASHINGTON  — Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said Wednesday during  a speech at Howard University that Republicans face long odds in connecting with black voters and are often cast as unsympathetic to the needs of blacks and minorities — something he says the party needs to change. He argued that many Democrats had [...]