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Postal Service Delays Closings Until May 15

Source: Jennifer Liberto / CNN Money WASHINGTON – The U.S. Postal Service has agreed to hold off on closing any more post offices or mail facilities until May 15, 2012, to allow Congress time to work on a plan to save the service. The U.S. Postal Service agreed to voluntarily enact a moratorium on closures, after [...]

NTSB Recommends Full Ban On Use Of Cell Phones While Driving

Source: Mike M. Ahlers / CNN Washington - A federal safety board called Tuesday for a nationwide ban on the use of cell phones and text messaging devices while driving. The recommendation is the most far-reaching yet by the National Transportation Safety Board, which in the past 10 years has increasingly sought to limit the use [...]

Washington Watch with Roland Martin, 12.11.11, Video Podcast

At the top of our agenda this week, it's looking like Newt Gingrich versus Pres. Barack Obama in 2012 – that is until the voters actually vote. The President throws Osama bin Laden in Mitt Romney's face. Has the Occupy Wall Street movement gone south for the winter? Our "Washington Watch" newsmaker, mega church pastor [...]

BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump Pulling Out Of Debate

Source: The Huffington Post Donald Trump has announced that he is pulling out of the Dec. 27th Newsmax debate. Developing… To follow this topic visit The Huffington Post.

SAY WHAT? Bill Would Permit Robo-Calls To Your Cell Phone

Source: MSNBC If you like getting those automated messages on your home phone, then you're just going to love a proposal in Congress. The bill (H.R. 3035) would allow these "robo-calls" to your cell phone — even if you didn't give a company permission to contact you at that number. Supporters of the "Mobile Informational Call Act of [...]

Pa. Man Asks Officer: 'Can I Have My Weed Back?'

Source: AP / Houston Chronicle BEAVER, Pa. — A defense attorney's argument that a bag of marijuana uncovered during a Pennsylvania traffic stop could have belonged to a man other than his client has unraveled after an arresting officer recalled the suspect asking him: "Can I have my weed back?" Nineteen-year-old Devonte Davon Jeter was [...]

What The Occupy Wall Street Movement Is All About And Where It Is Going (VIDEO)

In September, a group of people, young and old, fed up with the lack of jobs, lack of money, and fed up with the vast disparity between the very rich and the rest of the country, captured the attention of folks in the U.S., but also across the world. Kanene Holder is one of the [...]

Actress Elisabeth Omilami On Feeding Hungry Children, Reminds Us That Hungry Kids Cannot Learn (VIDEO)

As the daughter of civil rights pioneer Hosea Williams and Georgia state representative Juanita Williams, Elisabeth Omilami is no stranger to the power of an organized movement.  She continues the legacy of her father by heading up Hosea Feed the Hungry and Homeless in Atlanta.  She spoke this year at the Congressional Black Caucus conference, [...]

TJMS: NAACP President And CEO, Ben Jealous Discusses The GOP's Effort To Suppress Americans Right To Vote

Roland Martin talks with Ben Jealous, President and CEO of the NAACP about the GOP's efforts to suppress the Americans right to vote. WATCH: NAACP's Essential Questions Voters Must Be Able To Answer In Advance Of Election Day (VIDEO)

Russell Simmons Buys 'All-American Muslim' Ad Space, Protests Lowes

Source: The Huffington Post After Lowes created some open ad time, Russell Simmons filled it in a high profile way. The music legend and entrepreneur tweeted on Monday that he bought all the remaining ad space on "All-American Muslim," the TLC reality show that has been at the center of a recent media buy controversy. [...]