The bill that President Obama signed on Tuesday is the federal government’s biggest attack on economic inequality since inequality began rising more than three decades ago.
Alabama Congressman Artur Davis, who is attempting to become that state’s first black governor, was the lone Congressional Black Caucus member who voted against health care reform Sunday night championed by President Barack Obama, sparking local and national criticism.
Just 3% of Detroit's fourth-graders were proficient in math, according to the most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress exam. The city's eighth-graders didn't do much better. Only 4% were rated proficient. In both categories, Detroit's fourth- and eighth-graders recorded the lowest scores of the 18 cities that took part in the NAEP math test.
Tiger Woods said Sunday that he is focused on "living a life of amends" after "living the life of a lie" in one of his first interviews since a November car crash outside his home unleashed a media frenzy amid rumors of extramarital affairs.
The battle over the Democratic health care bill turned ugly over the weekend when Tea Party protesters called Georgia Congressman and civil rights legend John Lewis the N-word and spit at Rep. Emanuel Cleaver near the Capitol.
The Democratic-controlled Congress approved historic legislation Sunday night extending health care to tens of millions of uninsured Americans and cracking down on insurance company abuses.
Lincoln Ware will be broadcasting live for Census recruitment at the Price Hill recreation Center located on 959 Hawthorne Ave. on Friday, March 19th from 10am-2pm.
Reports of sexual assaults among U.S. military service members rose 11 percent last year, according to a study released by the Pentagon on Tuesday. Some 3,230 reports of sexual assaults across all of the services were made during fiscal year 2009, which ended on September 30, 2009. That was up from the fiscal year 2008 number of 2,923 sexual assaults reported. "Research in the civilian community shows that sexual assault is widely underreported, and we believe that is the same in the military," said Kaye Whitley, director of the Defense Department's sexual abuse prevention and response office. "As a result, increasing reporting has been one of our key goals for the department," she said. The report defines sexual assault as unwanted touching, from groping to rape. The statistics are not comparable to the general U.S. population because the information gathered differs from civilian data, according to Pentagon officials. But Pentagon spokeswoman Cynthia Smith says what the report does show is that the systems the Pentagon has put in place to improve reporting are working. One big change implemented in 2005 was a process called "restricted reporting," which allows a victim to report a sexual assault and get medical and mental health help, but not file the case in the criminal justice system, thus keeping the name of the victim anonymous. "Unrestricted reporting" is often less appealing of an option for victims because the appropriate military command is notified, and a criminal investigation is started, though the victim still receives medical help. When the command is notified, the victim's name is given to the commander, and it is widely believed in the military that victims of sexual assault may be denied promotion for reporting such crimes. According to the new report, the Department of Defense had two sexual assaults per 1,000 service members in fiscal year 2009. The Army reported 2.6 per 1,000 soldiers; the Navy reported 1.6 per 1,000; the Air Force reported 1.4 per 1,000; and the Marine Corps had 1.3 per 1,000. Officials said the data is based on sexual assault reports involving at least one person with the active duty military, either as the alleged attacker or the alleged victim. Pentagon officials have said that even though there have been improvements that allow military personnel to report cases, they estimate that only between 10 percent and 20 percent of people who were sexually assaulted report the crime. Reports of sexual assaults among U.S. military service members rose 11 percent last year, according to a study released by the Pentagon on Tuesday.
The 28-year-old's honorable discharge under the "don't ask, don't tell" policy came only after police officers in Rapid City, S.D., saw an Iowa marriage certificate in her home and told the nearby Ellsworth Air Force Base.
Because an estimated 80 percent of felony defendants in large states are too poor to hire their own lawyers, and because the case is being watched around the nation, the case has the potential to alter the shape of the criminal justice system.
"I think that there is a real shot we [Democrats] are going to get slaughtered in elections this fall if we aren't leading the efforts to reform Washington," Hildebrand said. "We campaigned in '06 and '08, and if voters don't see that change, we haven't lived up to that promise."
The disgraced sprinter once called the world's fastest woman was introduced Wednesday as the newest member of the WNBA's Tulsa Shock and she offered no apologies for her steroids use or her time in federal prison