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Hallmark Pulls Card After Complaints of Racial Slur

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foxnews.com

(June 12) -- Hallmark has pulled one of its graduation cards off the shelves after the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People complained that it used racial stereotypes and contai ...

Caught on Camera: A Week of Eye-Opening Videos

19 hours 28 minutes ago |AOL News

CNN/YouTube

(June 11) -- "God, what is that hair? Sooo yesterday." That's not a Lindsay Lohan line from "Mean Girls." Carly Fiorina said it hours after winning the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Califo ...

Oil Washing Into Alabama's Pristine Perdido Pass

1 day 20 hours ago |AOL News

Dave Martin, AP

(June 10) -- Oil from the BP disaster washed into Alabama's Perdido Pass, the latest beauty spot threatened by the country's worst-ever oil spill. Oil penetrated as deep as three miles down current ...

Panel: Taxpayers at Risk From AIG Bailout

1 day 20 hours ago |AOL News

AFP / Getty Images

(June 10) -- The government failed to exhaust all options before deciding to bail out insurance giant AIG in 2008, and taxpayers still risk "severe losses" in the deal, a federal watchdog agency warn ...

For Better or Worse, Nikki Haley Is GOP Rising Star

1 day 20 hours ago |AOL News

Rich Glickstein, The State / AP

(June 10) -- After her impressive showing in Tuesday's South Carolina primary, Republicans are hailing Nikki Haley as a rising star in the party. It's a term that's been applied to other candidates w ...

Obama Privately Meets Relatives of Dead Oil Workers

1 day 20 hours ago |AP

WASHINGTON (June 10) -- Congressional leaders stepped up pressure on oil giant BP to fully compensate economic victims of the Gulf spill as President Barack Obama offered condolences today to the rel ...

Video: Border Agent Who Shot Teen Wasn't Surrounded

1 day 22 hours ago |AOL News

Primer Impacto / Univision

(June 10) -- A video of the fatal shooting of a 14-year-old Mexican teenager by a U.S. border agent seems to undercut the FBI's contention that the agent acted in self-defense. The images were captur ...

Exclusive: Despite Oil Spill, Gulf Seafood Safe and Plentiful

2 days 1 hour ago |AOL News

Marcio Jose Sanchez, AP

(June 10) -- Constantly updating headlines, endless government revelations, snarky political attacks and airwaves saturated with British Petroleum's self-serving mea culpas have left many with the be ...

SC Democrats Urge Senate Nominee to Pull Out

2 days 3 hours ago |Politics Daily

Mary Ann Chastain, AP

(June 10) -- The unemployed military veteran who won South Carolina's Democratic Senate primary Tuesday has been urged by the state Democratic Party to withdraw from the race because of a pending fel ...

GOP Senate Hopeful Caught Making Fun of Boxer

2 days 15 hours ago |Politics Daily

(June 9) -- Carly Fiorina won big in Tuesday's California Senate primary and wasted no time making her first gaffe of the general election -- getting caught on an open mic making fun of her opponent ...

Sarah Palin Is Real Winner in Primary Elections

2 days 17 hours ago |Politics Daily

Mary Ann Chastain, AP

(June 9) -- Sarah Palin batted three for four (with an asterisk) in primary endorsements Tuesday, and though Cecile Bledsoe's loss in Arkansas' 3rd District dropped her 2010 record in congressional m ...

Opinion: Primary Commentary Roundup

2 days 22 hours ago |AOL News

(June 9) -- Editor's note: Tuesday's primaries sparked a wide range of commentary on the meaning of the races. We've gathered up a sampling. What Anti-Incumbent Rage? I am starting to wonder if the ...