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President Obama marked his first 100 days in office earlier this week and enjoys a very high approval rating. But author and media commentator Tavis Smiley tells how black America should hold the president accountable.

Barbara Haley, who's been playing the same numbers for more than 30 years, thought she won $300. But her husband had entered an eight instead of nine. That mistake made their ticket worth $150,000.

Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Sonia Sotomayor begin on July 13, 2009. Since her nomination, she has become a household name. Barring surprises, she is widely expected to win confirmation before the August recess.

Good news for fans of the Shiba Inu puppy cam. The pups are now 8 1/2 weeks old, and this weekend the first of them goes off to a new home. But that doesn't mean the end for the puppy cam.

A Bush administration spokesman has called on Hamas — the Islamist organization that controls the Gaza Strip — to stop firing rockets into Israel and "agree to respect a sustainable and durable ceasefire." Is there anything President-elect Obama can do to change the dynamic in the region?

Kenyan police open fire on protestors as they storm parliament, in wisdespread demonstrations against sweeping tax rises.

Scientists around the world are working on a way to inject vaccines painlessly. The trick is to make the needles so small. they don't interact with the nerve endings that signal pain.

The 7-2 decision threw out the challenge to the law, saying Texas and other objecting GOP-dominated states were not required to pay anything under the mandate provision and thus lacked standing.

In Arizona, members of the San Carlos Tribe and other activists from around the Southwest are beginning a 40-mile run and protest to the site of a proposed copper mine on land they consider sacred.

Researchers say they have identified the first medical treatment that shows promise in helping some people recovering from methamphetamine addiction.