Rumors are swirling that New York's first black governor, David Paterson, may be forced to resign for the same reason he took the office from his predecessor: a sex scandal.

Several websites, including Business Insider and Cityfile New York, are reporting that the New York Times is preparing a profile on Gov. Paterson that will expose alleged drunken sex parties held by Paterson.

Spokespeople for Paterson acknowledge the Times story is coming out, but they don't believe it contains any new bombshells.

Under normal circumstances, reporting on rumors such as the type around Paterson, would be considered out-of-bounds.

But the circumstances are far from normal when it comes to the embattled New York governor who has to suffer the embarrassment of having President Barack Obama ask him not to run for reelection because he is so unpopular with voters.

International health organizations will start an emergency campaign to provide vaccinations against communicable diseases for 140,000 earthquake survivors in Haiti.

When it comes to giving on the global scale, African nations are usually on the receiving end of international largess, but the harrowing images from earthquake-ravaged Haiti have several African nations pledging financial support for the relief effort.

While the pledge offers of $2.5 million from the Democratic Republic of Congo and $3 million from Ghana are a drop in the bucket compared to pledges made by the United States and most European nations, the pledges represent the first time in recent memory that African countries have pooled their meager financial resources to help a country outside of their continent.

Aside from the individual country pledges, a campaign called "Africa for Haiti" has been started online.

Holder added that he heard no objections from other government intelligence agencies when he informed them of his decision to charge Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in a civilian court.

Under the plan, $30 billion of the money repaid to taxpayers by Wall Street banks under the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) would be used to create a small business–lending fund to provide capital for loans to community banks.

The proposal has not yet been finalized and questions have surfaced over eligibility requirements for the small businesses trying to access the loan pool. The announcement, though, signals a change in strategy for the Obama Administration since his party's shocking defeat in the Massachusetts special Senate election two weeks ago.

Police in Boca Raton, Fla., are investigating a possible race crime in the the brutal Jan. 28 attack on a local black grandmother who said her white attackers hurled racial epithets as they beat her.

Ruby Hope Williams, 65, of Deerfield Beach, said she was walking to the bathroom at the popular Red Reef Park public beach when she was pushed from behind and fell on the pavement. She said her lip was cut in the fall.

A defeat in the Massachusetts Senate race has left President Barack Obama's health care reform effort on life support. A group of Democratic lawmakers, though, are trying to breathe new life in to the plan before it expires.

Rep. Charles Rangel, a New York Democrat, told the Associated Press that lawmakers in the House and Senate are crafting a compromise bill that would blend the differing pieces of health care reform legislation that passed in the House and Senate.