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The look, which includes new and reupholstered furniture and new paint and wallpaper, is more modern and tends toward neutral hues of brown and taupe, rather than the gold and yellow tones favored by his predecessor, George W. Bush. Gone is the sunburst rug that Mr. Bush loved so much; designed by his wife, Laura, […]
Five minutes past 9:30 a.m. on a Sunday this month, which is to say five minutes past the time the worship service was supposed to start, Shantell Henley pushed open the front door of her pastor’s house in the Lower Ninth Ward. She entered the living room to find a gospel song playing on the […]
celebs get fab for the 20th annual NAACP Awards
A majority of Republicans believe that President Barack Obama “sympathizes with the goals of Islamic fundamentalists who want to impose Islamic law around the world,” according to a survey released on Monday.
A national egg recall appartntly hasn’t hurt consumers’ appetite for the food. Demand for non-recalled eggs is up, and customers continue to gobble up the safe ones, restaurants and retailers say. “To tell you the truth, only a few customers even ask about the eggs,” said Jamal Lababidi, owner of The Big Egg Family Restaurant […]
President Obama on Monday chided Senate Republicans for engaging in “pure partisan politics’’by blocking a bill that would offer tax breaks and ease credit to small businesses, and said the measure was necessary to boost hiring and economic growth.
Barack Obama was “incredulous” at what he was hearing, said one of his top economic advisers. The president had spent his first year in office overseeing the biggest government bailout of the financial industry in American history. Together with Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, he had kept Wall Street afloat on a trillion-dollar tide of […]
Here is exclusive in-studio footage of Al Sharpton on his syndicated radio show talking about The Reclaim The Dream March the day before it went down.
Corey “Coco Brother” Condrey and his Stand Campaign have been going to various cities across the country declaring the name of Jesus Christ. I’m sure many lives have been impacted during these Jesus Rallies. I think it’s a wonderful thing that Coco and his team are doing. I’m sure the message of Jesus Christ, the […]
A Saudi employer and his wife, who are accused of torturing a Sri Lankan housemaid by hammering nails into her body, have been arrested in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, officials at the Sri Lankan External Affairs Ministry said Monday.
With a Grammy-winning gospel singer, CeCe Winans, and a CNN documentary crew on hand, the congregation was buzzing before the service today at the First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens. “I think it’s a wonderful thing,” said Florise Pierre of Branchburg, who came to the Somerset mega-church with her son and daughter, as she does […]