The Washington Mystics got off to fast start, built a big lead and then held off the New York Liberty’s furious comeback. Alana Beard scored 28 points, Nakia Sanford had 16, and the Mystics squandered nearly all of a 22-point lead in a 78-75 victory over the New York Liberty on Thursday night.”There’s a lot
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President Barack Obama says the WNBA serves as an inspiration for his two young daughters. Obama on Monday said his daughters, Sasha and Malia, have never known a time when women did not play professional basketball in the United States. He says his girls watch the female players on television. Read More…

The black scholar and the white police sergeant who arrested him agreed to disagree and promised to talk again, a gracious conclusion to the first round of an eye-opening dialogue on race that allows President Barack Obama to get back to selling his health care plan to skeptical Americans. After accepting Obama’s invitation to discuss
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP)—A Brazilian police investigation has determined that the death of boxer Arturo Gatti was a suicide and a court has ordered the release of his wife, once suspected of killing him, officials said Thursday. Lead investigator Paulo Alberes told The Associated Press authorities found that Gatti killed himself on July 11 in
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Michael Jackson‘s mother Katherine will get custody of his three children under terms of a deal that’s just been reached, it was reported Thursday. According to reports, Debbie Rowe, the mother of Michael’s eldest children, will get visitation, but no extra money. Though he did not go into specifics, Katherine’s attorney Londell McMillan said on
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Describing the case as “one of the most challenging I’ve had in almost 32 years as a judge,” Frederick H. Weisberg announced Wednesday his much-awaited verdict in the Banita Jacks murder trial: guilty. The D.C. Superior Court judge convicted Jacks on 11 of the 12 counts she faced: four counts of felony murder, four of
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A white supremacist accused of killing a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to be arraigned in September. Federal public defender A.J. Kramer says the arraignment for his client, 89-year-old James von Brunn, is set for Sept. 2 in U.S. District Court in Washington. Kramer says a hearing scheduled for Thursday
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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — Search warrants filed Thursday in court in Clark County, Nevada, and carried out at properties of Michael Jackson’s doctor imply that investigators looking into his death believe the singer was a drug addict. The warrants, signed by District Judge Timothy Williams and given to CNN by Las Vegas affiliate KTNV,
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