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Happy Holidays: Christmas With The Obama Family At The White House (VIDEO)

Images of the First Family celebrating the holiday season.

Kobe Bryant Cheating Rumors Fly (VIDEO)

The wife of basketball great Kobe Bryant has filed for divorce. HLN's Jane Velez-Mitchell reports WATCH:

White Supremacist Sentenced To 32 Years For Failed MLK Parade Bomb

Source: Michael Winter / USA Today A white supremacist and Army veteran who pleaded guilty planting a rat-poison-laced pipe bomb along the Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade route in Spokane, Wash., was sentenced today to the maximum 32 years in prison, the Associated Press reports. Before the sentence was handed down, Kevin Harpham, 37, [...]

Ohio State Gets One-Year Bowl Ban (VIDEO)

Source: AP / ESPN COLUMBUS, Ohio – Urban Meyer's first Ohio State team won't be bowl-bound. The NCAA hit Ohio State with a one-year bowl ban and other penalties on Tuesday for a scandal that involved eight players taking a total of $14,000 in cash and tattoos in exchange for jerseys, rings and other Buckeyes [...]

TJMS: Former NBA Coach Eddie Jordan Giving Back By Coaching High School Ball For Free

  April Ryan talks with former NBA coach Eddie Jordan about coaching high school basketball for free.

Rihanna Responds To Dutch Magazine That Called Her A Racist Name

Source: Sarah Anne Hughes / The Washington Post Rihanna is extremely unhappy with Jackie, a Dutch fashion magazine that referred to her as "the ultimate [N-word/B-word]" in a blurb about how to dress like the singer. The magazine also described Rihanna's derriere as "ghetto" and mistakenly referred to the Barbados-born singer as Jamaican. "I hope u can read [...]

Lawmaker Wants Military Patrols In New Orleans After Toddler's Murder

Source: Antoinette Campbell / CNN A Louisiana lawmaker wants the National Guard to patrol the streets of New Orleans after a toddler who was four days shy of her second birthday was shot and killed in a drive-by. "She was out here as a innocent bystander. She's dead now," said Rufus Ruck, the child's cousin. Keira [...]

EURweb: Radio One Has Banned Music Associated With Mathew Knowles

Source: EURweb *Last month,  EURweb reported that Cathy Hughes' cable channel TV One was suing the BET Network, MTV and Music World Music for violating its exclusive rights to the Essence Music Festival. Mathew Knowles' Music World Music is listed in the lawsuit because his company brokered the deal for the Essence Music Festival broadcast with TV One.  His [...]

LIVE VIDEO: President Obama Greets Troops At Andrews Air base, Marks End Of War

President Obama participates in a ceremony for returning troops at Joint Base Andrews.

Stalemate In Hill Payroll Tax Fight

Source: Tom Cohen and Alan Silverleib / CNN Washington - Congress showed little sign Tuesday morning of resolving its partisan standoff over the payroll tax-cut extension as the Republican-controlled House of Representatives refused to hold a vote on a Senate proposal, and leaders in the Democratic-controlled Senate insisted they won't go along with a new House plan. As [...]