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A new study finds that men who shave their heads appear more masculine. The study conducted by Alfred Mannes, a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania and a member of the shaved head club, was recently published in the Journal of Social Psychology and Personality Science. Mannes asked his 60 participants to compare photos of […]
DENVER (AP) — After dozens of hours of practice, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney arrived in Colorado on Monday for his first debate with President Barack Obama, telling thousands of voters he thinks the debates will be about "something bigger" than just who appears to emerge the winner. "In my view it's not so much […]
Will "The Big Chief" nail it? What will Mitt Romney say this time to the 47 percent? Watch the first presidential debate live with us on Facebook. Join Tom and contributors to the Tom Joyner Morning Show for a lively conversation on the debates and how this year's election will affect the black community. Click […]
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — As her family mourned her death, the friends of a college freshman who police say was beaten to death in her dorm room by her boyfriend have rallied people to wear purple to raise awareness of domestic violence. Alexandra Kogut’s body was found early Saturday at the State University of New […]
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Some political momentum could be on the line when a judge rules on whether to keep intact Pennsylvania's tough new law requiring voters to show photo identification in next month's presidential election. Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson is under a state Supreme Court order to rule no later than Tuesday, just […]
A Chinese restaurant in Kentucky has been shut down after customers witnessed two employees wheeling a dead deer into the back of the restaurant, The son of the restaurant's owner admitted to bringing the road kill into the kitchen with the plan of cleaning it and preparing it to be cooked. The Red Flower Chinese […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A Virginia man accused of driving hundreds of miles to upstate New York to kill the superintendent of a small school district believed the man was having an affair with his wife, a person familiar with the investigation told The Associated Press on Saturday. Anthony Robert Taglianetti II made the more-than-six-hour […]
MIAMI (AP) — It's not just the collection plate that's getting passed around this fall at hundreds of mainly African-American and Latino churches in presidential battleground states and across the nation. Exhorting congregations to register to vote, church leaders are distributing registration cards in the middle of services, and many are pledging caravans of "souls […]
DETROIT (AP) — An attorney says union workers aren't expected to immediately return to work despite a judge's order to end the strike by workers at the Detroit regional water department. Union attorney George Washington calls federal Judge Sean Cox's injunction "outrageous" and says a motion will be filed to dissolve it. Cox's order on […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from a national anti-gay marriage group that tried to thwart Maine's campaign disclosure law requiring it to release its donor list. The high court turned aside an appeal from the National Organization for Marriage, which donated $1.9 million to a political action […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Convicted D.C. sniper Lee Boyd Malvo said in a newspaper interview published Sunday that the devastated reaction of a victim's husband made him feel like "the worst piece of scum." Malvo expresses remorse in the interview with The Washington Post (wapo.st/SrLk9I) and urged the families of victims to try and forget about […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer for a cameraman who was accompanying Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (ah-muh-DEE'-neh-zhahd) to the U.S. for the United Nations General Assembly in New York says his client has defected. Paul O'Dwyer, a New York City-based lawyer who is representing Hassan Gol Khanban, confirmed Sunday that his client is seeking asylum […]