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The U.N. Security Council approved a no-fly zone over Libya Thursday as Muammar Qaddafi's military jets bombed the airport in the rebel stronghold of Benghazi.
Qaddafi proclaimed that the "hour of decision has come" and "there will be no mercy or compassion" for those who resist as he troops advanced to the besieged city.
"The matter has been decided... we are coming," he said in a telephone call to state television.
Qaddafi announced the assault as the U.N. approved the no-fly zone, which was sought by Washington to strike at Qaddafi's forces on land, sea and air.
"The future of Libya should be decided by the people of Libya," said U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice. "The United States stands with the people of Libya in support of their universal rights."
The measure would open the way for a no-fly zone and authorizes "all necessary measures" to protect civilians from attacks by Qaddafi's men.
The council voted 10-0, with Russia, China and Germany among the five abstaining.
In recent days, Qaddafi's forces have pounded the rebels, using rockets, artillery, tanks and warplanes.
On their way to Benghazi, Qaddafi's troops encircled the city of Ajdabiya. Some were believed to have advanced toward Benghazi, Libya's second-largest city and the headquarters of the opposition's leadership.
Source: NYDailyNews
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Sadly, after years of battling deteriorating health, rapper and LBC native Nate Dogg (whose real name was Nathaniel Hale) passed away at the age of 41.
No exact cause of death was immediately released when the family announced his death to the Long Beach Press Telegram, though the rapper suffered two massive strokes in recent years, one in 2007 which left him partially paralyzed, and another in 2008.
Nate Dogg was a four-time Grammy nominee and a major participant in the West Coast G-Funk sound, contributing memorable and chart-topping hooks to hits spanning the past two decades, starting with his heavy featuring on Dr. Dre's The Chronic. He went on to add his smooth, laid-back sound to Warren G's "Regulate," Dre and Snoop Dogg's "The Next Episode," Ludacris' "Area Codes" and Eminem's "Shake That." His most recent solo album, Nate Dogg, was released in 2008.
Frequent collaborator and longtime friend Snoop (back in 1991, then unknown pals Snoop, Nate and Warren G formed a rap group called 213) was the first to publicly mourn the loss.
"We lost a true legend n hip hop n rnb," he tweeted last night. "One of my best friends n a brother to me since 1986 when I was a sophomore at poly high where we met.
"I love u buddy luv. U will always b wit me 4ever n a day u put the g n g funk u put the 1 n 213 n u put yo stamp on evrybdy u ever didit wit. I miss u cuzz I am so sad but so happy I got to grow up with u and I will c u again n heaven cuz u know d slogan...all doggs go to heaven yo homie n baby brotha bigg snoopdogg!!
"RIP NATE DOGG."
As for Warren G, he has yet to publicly comment on the passing, but sadly just Sunday addressed fan concerns about Nate's health.
"For those that don't know awhile back nate had 2 strokes he is in therapy thanks again for your support."
Meanwhile, other fans and friends of Nate have weighed in on Twitter, offering up their own condolences.
• Daz Dillinger: "R.I.P. TO MY HOMEBOY NATE DOGG DPGC DOGG POUND GANGSTA 4 LIFE."
• Xzibit: "We love you Nate Dogg, it's never going to be the same."
• Reggie Bush: "R.I.B. Nate Dogg!!!! Rest In Beats!"
• Ludacris: "There is a certain void in hip hop's heart that can never be filled. Glad we got to make history together. RT @SnoopDogg: RIP NATE DOGG."
• The Game: "I lost a friend. Been here before. Tears. Memories. One day someone will lose 'US' as well. LIVING until that day comes is our only option."
Source: Eonline
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Veteran Democratic Congressman John Conyers voiced some disappointment in President Barack Obama - and said he wants to help the leader of his party to do better.
In a speech at the National Press Club on Monday, Conyers criticized Obama on a number of fronts - from his overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system and management of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to agreeing to Republican demands last year to extend tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans.
Conyers, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, was first elected to Congress in 1964 - three years before Obama was born. He backs Obama, but says, "I just want to make him a better president."
Conyers is not alone in his complaints. A number of Democrats in Congress have expressed frustration with Obama, particularly for what they describe as his failure to push harder on liberal issues.
"The recent debate on healthcare has allowed opponents of the new law to say we have gone too far - when the truth is we have not gone far enough," said Conyers, a backer of "a single payer" approach that would have a greater government involvement in delivery of health care.
"We've been in Afghanistan and Iraq for a decade, and it's time to leave both," he said.
"Jobs cost House Democrats the election last year and could next cost (Democrats) the Senate and the presidency in 2012 unless we address the issue," he said. "Pandering by giving Republicans more tax cuts is the wrong strategy that has not worked for the last 10 years to create jobs."
Source: Reuters
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Ousted NPR pundit Juan Williams ripped his former employer - which is taking heat after an embarrassing sting - for showing the "worst of white condescension" when it fired him last year.
"I think when it comes to NPR's decision to, without any reason, throw me out the door, I think that for them, especially for some of the people who created NPR, it's an all-white operation," said Williams, who works for Fox News.
Williams said NPR "felt they had never had much success" with black or Hispanic journalists and did better with white women.
Williams made the comments to the Huffington Post before Tuesday's release of a sting video that showed an NPR exec calling Tea Partiers "racist."
The Website published the interview Thursday as part of a series that examines black journalists' experiences in the media industry.
NPR canned Williams, 56, in October after he told "The O'Reilly Factor" he gets "nervous" when he sees people in airplanes wearing "Muslim garb."
NPR has said Williams' comments about Muslims "undermined his credibility as a news analyst."
About the firing, Williams said: "I think they acted very unfairly, and largely in a condescending manner..."
Earlier this week, NPR executive Ron Schiller was caught on tape calling Tea Partiers "middle-America gun-toting" people... and "racists."
Schiller and NPR's CEO resigned, and many Republicans in Congress have called for stripping NPR's federal funding.
"These people are not only attacking the Tea Party ... they attack anybody who disagrees with their point of view. These folks are doing damage to real journalism at NPR."
Source: NY Daily News
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A live radio broadcast from Pittsburgh featuring controversial Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan will go on as scheduled Friday, despite the withdrawal of a key panel member, the organizer said.
Host Bev Smith blamed Jewish and white Christian organizations for the decision of Melanie Campbell, CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, to withdraw from the program that includes Farrakhan and U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn, a South Carolina Democrat. One group Smith cited denied any involvement.
Campbell told organizers she feared she would lose funding if she appeared with Farrakhan, said Smith, a nationally syndicated radio talk show host. Smith worked with Farrakhan during his Million Man March in Washington in 1995.
Farrakhan, 77, of Chicago, took his campaign of anti-Semitism to new levels over the past two years, said Oren Segal, director of the Anti-Defamation League's Center on Extremism in New York.
"The problem is, he still attracts thousands of people to these events," Segal said. "Anytime messages of hate are heard like that, it's a concern."
Campbell is a Washington-based national civil rights leader who works on youth leadership programs, grassroots organizing and issues affecting women and girls. She could not be reached.
"One of the beauties of America is that free speech is protected," said Clyburn, the third-ranking Democrat in the House. "Although I had no idea who all the participants in this program were until yesterday, I look forward to an open and civil discussion at the forum. I will be representing my views and will not hesitate to express and defend my convictions, which are grounded in the Judeo-Christian doctrines I practice."
The radio broadcast is the second in a series of programs about challenges facing predominantly black communities. It will air live at 7 p.m. in Pittsburgh on WGBN 1150 AM and on the station's Website.
Smith, who lives downtown, titled the town hall-style meeting "The Disappearing Black Community and How We Can Get it Back." The center gave away tickets to fill the 486-seat auditorium and an overflow room.
"It's un-Christianlike not to talk to other people," Smith said. "My pain is that she had to be forced into this."
Smith said the Jewish Chronicle, a Pittsburgh publication, and Christian Associates of Southwest Pennsylvania were among those opposed to her program.
The Jewish Chronicle, which has called Farrakhan a "rabid anti-Semite," spoke against his appearance in a recent editorial. Chronicle Executive Editor Lee Chottiner declined to comment.
Source: Pittburgh Tribune
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They're college basketball's most talked about team that never won anything, known as the Fab Five, Michigan's 1991 recruiting class, which included Jalen Rose, Jimmy King, Ray Jackson, Chris Webber and Juwan Howard. Interesting to see that 18 years later, they still harbor some bitterness over what they weren't able to accomplish. With special acrimony still reserved for Duke. Rose, King and Jackson appeared on ESPN's 'First Take' this morning to discuss 30 for 30's documentary on the Fab Five that will air on Sunday.
About midway through the First Take segment, they played a clip from the documentary in which Rose says:
"For me, Duke was personal. I hated Duke. And I hated everything I felt Duke stood for. Schools like Duke didn't recruit players like me. I felt like they only recruited black players that were Uncle Toms."
Asked about the comment, Rose didn't exactly backtrack, but elaborated:
"Well, certain schools recruit a typical kind of player whether the world admits it or not. And Duke is one of those schools. They recruit black players from polished families, accomplished families. And that's fine. That's okay. But when you're an inner-city kid playing in a public school league, you know that certain schools aren't going to recruit you. That's one. And I'm okay with it. That's how I felt as an 18-year-old kid."
Source: MSNBC
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Oprah's new cable network - which has not been able to get much traction since its blockbuster opening week - is getting the "reboot."
Network officials have quietly been telling worried advertisers that OWN, Oprah's new channel, will begin reshuffling its lineup in the next weeks and investing millions in advertising to win back faithful viewers.
The network's only bona fide hit - 'Season 25: Oprah Behind the Scenes' - is about to become the "anchor show" for the fledgling network, according to media execs who have heard the new pitch.
"We're doing a lot of changes to the schedule," a spokesman for OWN confirmed yesterday.
The "reboot" - the term OWN is using with potential advertisers - will start later this month when 'Behind the Scenes' is shifted to Sunday night.
The Oprah channel spent more than $10 million in advertising to get OWN started. The new ad push - most of it spent on other cable networks like TNT and TBS - will be about half that, according to reports.
"Ever since the launch, they've been kind of dark," said one media exec close to OWN. "The intention is to get back out there and let people know." Moving 'Behind the Scenes,' which chronicles the final season of Winfrey's daytime talk show, from Friday to Sunday night is the first step.
Sunday is the biggest TV-watching night of the week. Bigger numbers for Oprah's show - the only one on OWN she appears on right now - will raise the network's weak weekly ratings average - and perhaps end the flood of bad publicity about its rating woes.
"You have to fish where the fish are," as a spokesman for the network put it.
Celebrity reality shows - beginning with a six-week series starring the battling mother-daughter singing duo Naomi and Wynonna Judd and followed this summer by shows starring singer Shania Twain and the Dutchess of York Sarah Ferguson - are getting the next hard push in the ad campaigns.
Financially, the network was born with a silver spoon in its mouth and, at least for the short run, does not have to worry about money.
Source: NY Post
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Warner Bros. has fired Charlie Sheen from the hit CBS show "Two and a Half Men."
The move comes after several weeks of very public battling between the actor and CBS, Warner Bros. and "Two and a Half Men" co-creator Chuck Lorre.
In a statement, the studio said, "After careful consideration, Warner Bros. Television has terminated Charlie Sheen's services on 'Two and a Half Men' effective immediately."
Production on the show was stopped in late January after top executives from CBS and Warner Bros. confronted Sheen about his private life. Sheen has made no secret of embracing a sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll lifestyle. Messy divorces, accusations of violence toward women and trips to rehab have been staples of his life for over two decades.
None of his personal life seemed to have any impact on his career. He is the highest paid actor in television, with a salary that reaches $2 million per episode when his portion of rerun money is included. Although production was also shut down last year because of Sheen's personal issues, CBS and Warner Bros. never publicly came out against that star.
That all changed last month when Sheen suddenly became very critical of Lorre, Warner Bros. and CBS. He made fun of Lorre, and CBS and Warner Bros. announced they were suspending production of the show for the rest of the season.
Source: LA Times
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Rev. Edward Fairley, pictured right, is accused of stabbing Rev. Simone Shields
Both are ministers – he, a popular preacher, respected by his peers but bearing a violent past; she, a former schoolteacher with a taste for poetry.
They worked at the same church at some point and, according to police, were in a relationship.
It took a brutal turn Tuesday morning when, authorities and a witness say, the Rev. Edward Fairley stormed into an Eastside home and, without a word, stabbed the Rev. Simone Shields several times in the face and torso, leaving her to lie in a pool of blood on the kitchen floor.
Shields, 52, was eventually rescued by police and taken to St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center. She remains in critical but stable condition, police said.
Fairley, 59, was arrested after he was spotted on the street soaked in blood, the knife still in hand, authorities said. He is charged with attempted murder and was in Paterson police custody with no bail set as of late Wednesday, according to the Passaic County Jail.
The attack stunned the city's church leaders. Fellow pastors, who described Fairley as a good man and a "pillar" in the community, seemed at a loss.
"I don't know what the Lord wants us to look at with this situation," said the Rev. Chester Taylor, of Calvary Baptist Church.
But long before he started the Koinonia and Christian Ministries in Paterson 15 years ago, Fairley was convicted of committing a violent attack on his wife. In 1983, Fairley, then 32 and a Baptist minister, was indicted on charges of breaking into his estranged wife's Paterson apartment and stabbing her, according to an Associated Press article published in The New York Times on Dec. 1, 1983.
He served six years in state prison after being convicted of aggravated assault, kidnapping, armed burglary and weapons possession.
It's unclear when Fairley and Shields met and what the nature of their relationship was. He was married. She was not, though a former student said she was about to get engaged as of December. A profile on MySpace described her as an associate minister at Koinonia and Christian Ministries and an English teacher at Rosa Parks High School. She left the district as early as September 2009, a district official said and state records show.
On Tuesday just after 10 a.m., Shields was at the 26th Street home of a friend, who is a beautician, getting her hair done when Fairley arrived. Fairley had called the friend earlier saying he was coming over to return some personal papers, said the woman, who asked not to be identified.
When Fairley showed up, he said little before attacking Shields in the kitchen with a knife he pulled from his pocket, the witness said. As the hairstylist called the police, the blood-soaked minister quietly left, she said.
"After he finished, he walked out calm as ever and starting walking up the street," she said.
Source: The Record
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A 22-year-old John Jay College grad was stabbed to death in a Brooklyn housing project Monday night, apparently during an argument over $20 she lent her boyfriend's sister to buy Pampers, relatives and police sources said.
Kamisha Richards was knifed once in the chest in the Cypress Hills Houses on Sutter Ave. in East New York about 10:35 p.m, officials said.
A relative of the boyfriend's said she returned home from work and found Richards "going down slowly."
"She wasn't panicking," the relative said. "She was calm. I called the ambulance and put pressure on (the wound).
"I did everything I could to try to save the girl."
Richards was pronounced dead on arrival at Brookldale University Hospital.
"My daughter's dead!" the victim's father screamed out at the crime scene, where about 25 stunned relatives and friends gathered. "My daughter's dead!"
Family members described Richards as a John Jay grad and said she worked for JPMorgan Chase.
The relatives said she stayed on-and-off in the Cypress Hills complex, where her boyfriend of seven years, Ramel Henriques, lived.
No one was immediately arrested, but detectives were questioning several people, including an 18-year-old woman identified by sources as the boyfriend's sister.
She was picked up by police in a neighboring building.
Richards' friends and relatives said the victim had recently lent the sister $20 to buy disposable diapers and milk for the sister's baby, then got angry when she found out the woman spent the money on other things.
"My daughter takes care of the whole family there," Richards' father said. "(The sister) had a baby recently. My daughter gave her $20 to go buy some milk and Pampers. She went and spent the money on something else. They argued about it. ... She waited for her to come home from work, and did her."
Source: NYDailyNews
Kevin Eason is a freelance editorial cartoonist and Illustrator from New Jersey. His brand of satire covers news events in politics, entertainment, sports and much more. Follow him on Facebook.
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