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Hadiya Pendleton Dead: Chicago Teen Who Performed At Inaugural Events Fatally Shot

Chicago News and Weather | FOX 32 News Source: AP / The Huffington Post CHICAGO — A 15-year-old majorette who performed at some of President Barack Obama’s recent inauguration festivities has been shot to death in Chicago. Police say Hadiya Pendleton was shot in the back Tuesday in a South Side park and died at [...]

LISTEN: Roland Martin Talks With Mary Mitchell About The Battle For Jesse Jackson Jr.'s Congressional Seat

Roland Martin talks with Mary Mitchell about Debbie Halvorson, the NRA supported Democrat along with 16 other people who are fighting for Jesse Jackson Jr.’s seat.

VW Jamaica-Theme Super Bowl Ad: Funny Or Offensive? (VIDEO)

Roland Martin, Erin Burnett and Reihan Salam discuss if Volkswagen’s Jamaica-themed Super Bowl ad is funny or offensive.

$4 Billion BP Oil Spill Criminal Settlement Approved

Source: AP / CBS News   NEW ORLEANS – A federal judge on Tuesday approved an agreement for BP PLC to plead guilty to manslaughter and other charges and pay a record $4 billion in criminal penalties for the company’s role in the 2010 oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. U.S. District Judge Sarah [...]

John Kerry Confirmed By Senate Colleagues As Secretary Of State

Source: CNN Washington – John Kerry was overwhelmingly confirmed Tuesday as the 68th secretary of state by his colleagues in the U.S. Senate. The vote was 94-3, with Republican Senators John Cornyn, Ted Cruz and James Inhofe voting no. Kerry voted present on his own nomination. Earlier in the day he received the nod of [...]

LIVE VIDEO: President Obama Speaks On The Need To Fix The Broken Immigration System

JOIN THE LIVE CHAT VISIT WHITEHOUSE.GOV President Obama Speaks on the Need to Fix the Broken Immigration System

BLEACHER REPORT: Alex Rodriguez Heads List Of MLB Stars Linked To Miami PED Clinic in Report

Source: Adam Wells / The Bleacher Report The Miami New Times may have uncovered the East Coast version of BALCO—the California lab that supplied performance-enhancing drugs to several high-profile athletes, including some of the biggest names in baseball. New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez, Texas Rangers outfielder Nelson Cruz, Nationals pitcher Gio Gonzalez, Toronto [...]

Transportation Secretary LaHood To Leave Post

Source: CNN Washington – Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, the lone Republican in President Barack Obama’s Cabinet, announced Tuesday that he’s leaving the administration for the president’s second term. The departure of LaHood is the latest of several changes in Obama’s administration since the president won re-election in November. He’s at least the sixth Cabinet official [...]

Whitney Houston’s Mother Has Words For Bobby Brown (VIDEO)

Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. Source:  Hillel Italie / ABC News In “Remembering Whitney,” the mother of the late Whitney Houston writes that from the start she had doubted whether Brown was right for her daughter. And she thinks that Whitney might not have ended up so “deep” into drugs had they not stayed [...]

Stuck In Reverse, Detroit Edges Closer To Bankruptcy

Source: Nick Carey, Bernie Woodall and Karen Pierog , Reuters / for NBC News   But in a city that is slowly dying, the glitz didn’t extend much beyond the Cobo Center exhibition hall. General Motors Co. and Chrysler, which along with Ford Motor Co. gave the Motor City its identity, survived near-death experiences after filing for bankruptcy [...]