Last year’s government shutdown was avoided from happening again this week after the House passed a $1.1 trillion dollar spending bill on Thursday. The bill passed 219 to 206, with over 60 Republicans breaking rank to vote against it. The house also passed an additional measure that gives the senate two extra days to approve the bill before […]
Tons of big names have stopped by The Breakfast Club, but this week they landed another A-Lister, as Chris Rock turned up to talk to Charlamagne Tha God and Angela Yee. Charlamagne and Angela wasted no time, immediately diving into the impact that his new film Top Five will have on Chris’ movie career. Chris admitted he’s never had a […]
If you were to cast someone to play Michelle Obama in a movie, who do you think could take on the part? Well, it looks like we’re getting that answer, as Tika Sumpter snagged the role as the country’s First Lady in a new upcoming movie called Southside With You, based on the Obamas’ first date. According […]
Someone’s always got something negative to say. Earlier this week, we watched as President Obama prepped for Thanksgiving festivities at the White House. In a nationally televised clip, Obama was accompanied by his two daughters during the White House’s annual turkey pardon and the way Malia and Sasha appeared on television rubbed some people the wrong way, especially GOP […]
Google is facing a class action lawsuit for exploiting contract workers. The plaintiff has stated the the tech company has misclassified employees as independent contractors, alleging that they the company has refused to pay them overtime wages. This is the second lawsuit a tech company has faced for abusing the independent contractors employment model… this week. […]
We knew Scandal had millions of fans, but we didn’t know that Rihanna was one of them. The Bajan beauty and some of her closest friends toured the White House this weekend, and RiRi’s inner Olivia Pope came out in full force. While inside those hallowed halls, Rihanna couldn’t help but fan-out, captioning her newly-reinstated Instagram photos with Olivia Pope and […]
A popular group of Russian hackers is suspected of breaking into the White House’s executive computers. The break-in reportedly occurred a few weeks ago, but no important files were compromised. The FBI and Secret Service have launched investigations into the breach. Hackers thought to be working for the Russian government breached the unclassified White House computer […]
President Obama met with the Texas nurse Nina Pham, who contracted the deadly virus, this past Friday at the Oval Office in Washington, D.C. The 26-year-old nurse caught the disease while treating Thomas Eric Duncan at the Texas Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas. Nina told CNN: Although I no longer have Ebola, I know that it may be […]
Residents of Nigeria and Senegal can now breathe a little easier, after both countries were declared free of the deadly Ebola virus. The World Health Organization listed the countries disease-free after no new cases were reported in the 42-day testing period. ‘Nigeria is now free of Ebola,’ WHO representative Rui Gama Vaz told a news conference in the […]
President Barack Obama released a statement on Saturday saying that airstrikes in Iraq will continue for as long as necessary to protect both U.S personnel and religious minorities who are trapped on a mountain by militants in northern Iraq. Shortly before leaving for a family vacation, Obama said in the White House: “I’m not going to give […]
The U.N. is reporting that approximately one in five of the Palestinian deaths are children in Gaza after 11 days of tragic bombardment. The Israeli military is trying to urge residents to leave areas that are under the Hamas targets, but rights activists say that almost no place is safe in the area. 1.7 million […]
President Obama is no stranger to D.C. area restaurants, and yesterday, Chipotle was his lunch of choice. Obama treated four parents to a quick meal after his speech at the White House Summit on Working Families, where he criticized the United States for being the only country without paid maternity leave. But his speech was […]
