Chuck D. Hosts New Radio Show On Air America (Manhunt.com)

Chuck D has returned to Air America, the talk radio network. The Public Enemy front man’s new show, “On The Real,” debuts on May 29 and will feature actor/comedian Jamie Foxx. Chuck’s previous show, “Unfiltered,” was cancelled earlier this year.

Grenade Incident Won't Damage US-Georgian Relationship

It turns out that a grenade tossed in the direction of US President George W. Bush during his recent speech in Tbilisi was live, and not a dud as Georgian security officials originally claimed. While the grenade incident could prompt a review of security procedures concerning...

Taking Photographs Constitutionally Protected, NYC Ban Scrapped: picturephoni...

The act of taking a photograph in a public place is protected First Amendment expression, reports The Empire Journal. After civil libertarians, New York City officials and members of the public expressed...

"We are in the midst of an absolute revolution" - Hodding Carter, head of the...

From Jeff Jarvis: "Yesterday, at a press conference to announce a new initiative to improve journalism education, Hodding Carter, head of the Knight Foundation, said: The great dirty secret in journalism...

CDC: Number of U.S. women smoking at 30-year low

Smoking among women in the United States has dropped below one in five for the first time in nearly 30 years, the government ...

Study says nation's urban roads deteriorating

A study to be released Thursday by The Road Information Program (TRIP), a transportation industry research group, says the condition ...

Amnesty USA calls for Bush Arrest

WASHINGTON, May 25 (IPS) - If the administration of President George W. Bush fails to conduct a truly independent investigation of U.S. abuses against detainees in Iraq and elsewhere, foreign governments should...

Survey: Media Consumers are Control Freaks

When it comes to media, consumers are control freaks, according to a U.S. study from Arbitron and Edison Media Research. People are increasingly watching video-on-demand (10 per cent of respondents), accessing...

Banks Notify Customers of Data Theft - Yahoo! News

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - More than 100,000 customers of Wachovia Corp. and Bank of America Corp. have been notified that their financial records may have been stolen by bank employees and sold to collection...

The deserters: Awol crisis hits the US forces

JE McNeil, who heads the Centre for Conscience and War in Washington DC, a Christian group whose members also staff the GI Rights Hotline, said many troops she spoke with had been lied to by recruiters. "I had an 18-year-old who was told he did not have to serve in...

Home Depot profit up; to shrink Expo (Reuters)

Reuters - Top U.S. home improvement chain Home Depot Inc. on Tuesday reported a 14 percent rise in first-quarter profit as installation and appliance sales rose, and said it would close nearly a third of its upscale Expo design stores.

Newsweek = Satan As Right Wing Smells A New 'RatherGate' : Sploid

A brief news item is published about an existing investigation of abuses at Guantanamo Bay, sparking violent anti-U.S. protests in the Muslim world. As the situation gets worse, the sources say they%u2019re no longer really sure about what they knew and what they said. And...

Why Google News is broken

Duncan Riley> Google News is broken, and the unresponsive morons running Google News have a lot to answer for. Now please don't get me wrong, I supported Google News when it initially refused entry to a number of blogs on the basis that they did not report news. I even...

Talkr Releases a tool to convert blogs to podcasts

Talkr has announced a new service targeting the owners of iPods and other mp3 players with a new service that automatically converts blog content to podcasts. Talkr aims to target the 11% of the US adult population that owns an mp3 player. The service monitors blogs and...

Gawker Bucks vs Journalists Bucks

Tristan Louis of TNL.net is undertaking a study comparing how much a Gawker Media blogger makes compared to a Journalist with some interesting conclusion. The conclusion is that a Gawker Media blogger in the top three blogs will make $6,250 per month, but on a comparative...

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