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'Slaves Obey Your Masters' Billboard Torn Down (VIDEO)

An atheist group put up the billboard in a racially diverse neighborhood in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, angering Civil Rights activists who called for its removal. Rev. Joe Watkins discusses.

Police To Release 911 Tapes In Trayvon Martin Fatal Shooting

Source: CBS News ANFORD, Fla. – Police will release the 911 tapes in the Trayvon Martin deadly shooting after the victim's family has a chance to hear them, reports the Orlando Sentinel. Martin, 17, was shot and killed by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch leader who called 911 from his sports utility vehicle, saying the teen [...]

Texas Loses Entire Women's Health Program Over Planned Parenthood Law

Source: Laura Bassett / The Huffington Post The Department of Health and Human Services announced on Thursday that it will cut off all Medicaid funding for family planning to the state of Texas, following Gov. Rick Perry's (R) decision to implement a new law that excludes Planned Parenthood from the state's Medicaid Women's Health Program. Cindy Mann, [...]

Jasmyne A. Cannick: White Feminists Don't Care About Black Women

Source: Jasmyne A. Cannick / EURweb *I'm not a self-described feminist, but even I have noticed over the past few weeks how the American feminism has been fired up and ready to go over attacks from the political left and right. Rush Limbaugh got the ball rolling by calling Georgetown University Law School student Sandra [...]

Health Care Costs Will Exceed Average Household Income By 2030

Source: Business Insider Health care costs will exceed the average household income by 2030, according to a recent study published in the Annals of Family Medicine. In 2005, authors Noelia de la Cruz / Richard A. Young and Jennifer E. DeVoe reported health insurance would equal median household income by 2025. However, they have since adjusted their estimates to reflect the [...]

Newt Gingrich: No One Understands Me

Source: Sarah Huisenga / CBS News PALATINE, Ill. – Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich late on Wednesday expressed frustration with both the news media and the Republican Party establishment for failing to understand his "large ideas" for transforming American politics. As calls for Gingrich to bow out of the race grew louder following his second-place finishes [...]

New York Cuts Pension Benefits For Public Workers

Source: Dan Burns, Joan Gralla, Daniel Trotta and Leslie Adler / Reuters New York state lawmakers have approved a pension reform measure aimed at saving $80 billion over 30 years by reducing benefits for newly hired state and local public workers. Governor Andrew Cuomo praised the bill, which was enacted by the legislature late Wednesday, [...]

Mitt Romney Clarifies Planned Parenthood Comments

Source: The Huffington Post Mitt Romney is walking back the comments he made about wanting to "get rid of" Planned Parenthood, saying Wednesday that he just wants to strip the organization of federal funds. "Planned Parenthood is a private organization. What I want to get rid of is the federal funding of Planned Parenthood," he told Lynn [...]

WATCH! Jon Stewart: 'Why Won't Gingrich Quit?' (VIDEO)

Source: Seena Vali / The Huffington Post As the Republican primaries rolled into Alabama, Mississippi, Hawaii and American Samoa on Tuesday, Newt Gingrich's stuttering campaign faced a make-or-break moment. In the end, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum split the elections, and while conventional wisdom says that Gingrich should drop out of the race, the former Speaker [...]

MARCH MADNESS: President Obama Makes NCAA Picks (VIDEO)

President Obama announced his NCAA tournament bracket picks to ESPN. The President's Final Four picks are Kentucky, Ohio State, Missouri and North Carolina.