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A high school senior from Houston, Texas, was accepted by each of the 20 top-ranked universities to which he applied — and was offered a full scholarship to every single one of them. Michael Brown, a 17-year-old student at Lamar High School, went viral after he was caught on camera screaming in glee upon learning he was accepted into Stanford University in December. Little did the teen know at the time, but his excitement would increase by a factor of 20 in March when he was also accepted into Harvard, Princeton, Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown, Northwestern, Vanderbilt and...

Booker attended Menendez’s bribery trial on Wednesday in Newark to sit up front to support his Democratic colleague. If Menendez is convicted on any of these serious charges, will Booker return the cash? GotNews editor-in-chief Charles Johnson revealed in 2013 Booker did not live in Newark or at any of the Newark residences he owned. Multiple neighbors who spoke to Johnson said they believed the junior senator actually lived in New York, calling Booker a “liar” and a “fake mayor.” Fake news reporters smeared Johnson for years over his accurate reporting on both Booker and Menendez. Cat pornography site Buzzfeed...

Most three-year-olds are fascinated by cars and trucks. But few can read and remember their number plates like William Potter does. He can also name most towns and cities in the British Isles - and has just become one of the youngest people ever accepted as a member of Mensa. With an IQ of 140, his intelligence is said to be on a par with that of Bill Clinton and, apparently, Napoleon Bonaparte.

The United States stood abysmally, disgracefully silent last week as the United Nations General Assembly debated a resolution endorsing the stacked investigation that accused Israel of committing crimes against humanity in the Gaza conflict. Would that the Obama State Department had loudly and clearly denounced the so-called Goldstone Report before the assembly voted overwhelmingly to support the document's findings. No such exercise of American moral authority took place during the debate. U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice issued no condemnation on the order of the one that was spoken by Israeli Ambassador Gabriela Shalev, who described the report as "conceived in hate...

'The Rock' does fine in KirkukThe majority welcomes us with open arms Sgt. Shawn M. Grueser Wednesday September 10, 2003; 07:35 AM KIRKUK, Iraq -- I have been serving in Iraq for over five months as a soldier with Company A, 2nd Battalion of the 503rd Airborne Infantry Regiment, otherwise known as "The Rock." We entered the country at midnight on March 26. One thousand of my fellow soldiers and I parachuted from 10 jumbo jets (C-17s) onto a cold, muddy field in Northern Iraq. The parachute operation was the Army's only combat jump in the war and opened up...

Embattled Misssissippi Senator Trent Lott recieved a boost late Monday evening from one of the most prominent Black Democrats in Congress.Representative John Lewis of Georgia, a leader in the 1960's civil rights movement, said he and Senator Lott had 'a very productive' conversation earlier in the day.Representative Lewis, who has been among those highly critical of Lott's remarks, said he accepted Lott's apology as sincere.'Just like so many leaders of the Old South, Trent Lott has the potential to become a better person and a better politcal leader,' Lewis said, adding that he had invited Senator Lott to join a...