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CNN Announces New Evening Lineup

Source: CNN CNN has unveiled a new evening lineup with anchors Erin Burnett, Anderson Cooper and Piers Morgan to launch this fall, it was announced today by Ken Jautz, executive vice president, CNN/U.S. Beginning Aug. 8, CNN will broadcast its flagship nightly news program AC360, anchored by Anderson Cooper, live at 8pm and re-air it in its current timeslot of 10pm. In the fall, CNN will premiere a new general news program with Erin Burnett, which will air at 7pm ET [...]

Former NBA Player And UNLV Great, Armen Gilliam Dies Following Collapse

Source: ESPN Former UNLV great and ex-NBA player Armen Gilliam died Tuesday night while playing pickup basketball at a Pitsburgh-area health club. He was 47. Gilliam, the No. 2 overall pick of the Phoenix Suns in the 1987 NBA draft, collapsed of a heart attack while playing at a health club in Bridgeville, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. He was taken to an area hospital where he was pronounced dead at 9:28 p.m. ET, according to the Allegheny County coroner's office, [...]

President Obama And Speaker Boehner Met For Deficit Talks Over The Weekend

Source: CNN Washington - President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner met over the weekend as part of ongoing negotiations on an agreement to reduce the country's deficit, a Republican official told CNN late Tuesday. Also Obama said Tuesday he invited Democratic and Republican leaders from both chambers of Congress to the White House for a meeting Thursday to discuss deficit reduction and the need to raise the federal debt ceiling. Obama said he wanted the meeting to "build [...]

Facebook Expected To Make An 'Awesome' Announcement Today

Source: CNN Facebook has scheduled a Wednesday news conference to announce the launch of what it termed "something awesome." The leading theory is that the company will unveil a video-chat feature powered by Skype. Facebook didn't provide any details in an e-mail inviting media members to the event, to be held at its Palo Alto, California, headquarters. But CEO Mark Zuckerberg promised last week it would be "something awesome." Zuckerberg was touring Facebook's engineering site in Seattle and wouldn't give [...]

14 Men Charged In Sexual Assaults Of 11-Year-Old Texas Girl

Source: Juan A. Lozano / AP / ABC News More than a dozen men accused of taking part in a series of sexual assaults on an 11-year-old girl are expected in court Wednesday in a case that has divided and horrified their southeast Texas town. The 14 men, who along with five juvenile boys are facing charges, are scheduled to be in a state district courtroom in Liberty for status updates. The investigation began in December, after one of the [...]

Investigation Finds 'Widespread' Cheating in Atlanta Schools

Source: Kayla Webley / Time At least 178 teachers and principals at nearly four dozen schools in Atlanta have been implicated in what is likely the largest cheating scandal in U.S. history to date. The report found that teachers, principals and administrators were both helping students on the state's standardized test, the Criterion-Reference Competency Test, and correcting incorrect answers after students had turned the tests in. Eighty-two educators confessed to the allegations detailed in the report from the Georgia Bureau of [...]

Michael Jordan Love Letter Sparks Anger? (VIDEO)

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MLK Jr. Memorial Confronts Controversy

Source: Melanie Eversley / USA Today Less than two months before the Aug. 28 dedication in Washington of a major memorial to Martin Luther King Jr., organizers of the 4-acre, $120 million site are working to assure the public that the selection of an artist from China was made with great care and that the family of the civil rights leader is in support. For years, critics have questioned the decision to go outside of the United States for a sculptor [...]

Secret Service Investigating Fox News' Twitter Feed Hack

Source: AP / CBS News Washington  — The Secret Service said Monday it will investigate the hacking of Fox's political Twitter account over updates claiming that President Barack Obama had been assassinated. Secret Service spokesman George Ogilvie says the law enforcement agency whose job it is to protect the president will conduct a probe of the false postings and that "we will conduct the appropriate follow up." Hackers broke into the FoxNewsPolitics account early Monday, leaving a series of six [...]

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