The California NAACP has endorsed a November ballot measure to legalize adult recreational use of marijuana, calling the measure a civil rights issue because blacks have a disproportionate number of arrests for marijuana possession compared with whites. Accompanied by other African American leaders in California, the president of the state NAACP, Alice Huffman, said...
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The controversial new immigration law in Arizona won’t officially be implemented for a month. But droves of legal and illegal immigrants already are starting to leave the state, hurting local stores and companies. “It’s basically running us out of business,” Rollie Rankin, an apartment building owner, told The Arizona Republic. Rankin, 62, said the...
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DENVER – The Interior Department has fined BP America $5.2 million for allegedly submitting false reports about energy production on an Indian reservation in Colorado. The Interior Department said Wednesday that the U.S. unit of BP PLC repeatedly misreported royalty rates for natural gas on Southern Ute Indian tribal lands. Interior spokesman Patrick Etchart...
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Naomi Campbell and actress Mia Farrow will be summoned to testify at former Liberian President Charles Taylor’s war crimes trial, addressing allegations Taylor gave the supermodel an uncut diamond at a South African reception in 1997. The Special Court for Sierra Leone granted a request Wednesday by prosecutors to call...
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BONDED BY BLOOD are set to appear at the Brutal Assault festival in the Czech Republic on August 12th, before heading to the UK for three shows – including an appearance on the main stage at Bloodstock festival – leading up to the release of the band’s new album, EXILED TO EARTH. BONDED BY...
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Actress Zoe Saldana is taking on a new role: wife. The star, whose celebrity status has been boosted by the runaway success of the record-smashing flick “Avatar” and her role in the reboot of iconic sci-fi franchise “Star Trek,” is engaged to her boyfriend of 10 years, Keith Britton. A rep for the actress...
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Paramount did a brilliant job with its “You Demanded It” campaign on “Paranormal Activity,” creating demand as much as exposing it. The trailer for the sequel — which is being directed by the young Kip Williams and is still set for release this Halloween — brings us back to where we left off: namely,...
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Stuck in a traffic? No problem, if you’re driving the Terrafugia Transition Roadable Aircraft. Nicknamed the “Flying Car,” the vehicle is equally adapt at flying just as it is designed to cruise on public roadways. The car-plane was recently granted a weight exemption by the Federation Aviation Administration (FAA), allowing its maker Terrafugia, to...
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WASHINGTON — Republicans on Wednesday stepped up their pressure on Elena Kagan to defend her decisions involving abortion and the ban on gays and lesbians serving openly in the military, trying to knock her off her stride even as some of them conceded that her confirmation to the Supreme Court appears all but assured....
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LAS VEGAS — If fans are thinking about bringing the spirit of the World Cup to the Ultimate Fighting Championship in the form of a vuvuzela, forget about it. UFC president Dana White says Wednesday that vuvuzelas the beehive-sounding noisemakers that have become famous during soccer’s biggest event are being banned at MGM Grand...
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