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North Koreans punch the air during a rally at Kim Il Sung Square in downtown Pyongyang, North Korea, Friday, March 29, 2013. Tens of thousands of North Koreans turned out for the mass rally at the main square in Pyongyang in support of their leader Kim Jong Un's call to arms. The placard reads "U.S. forces, get out!"  /   AP PHOTO/JON CHOL JIN North Korea is entering a "state of war" with South Korea, its state-run news service reports, further escalating the rhetoric against its southern neighbor and the United States. The statement, carried by the communist country's KCNA news agency, says inter-Korean relations will be dealt with in a wartime manner. "From this time on, the North-South relations will be entering the state of war and all issues raised between the North and the South will be handled accordingly," the statement said, according to Reuters. CBS News correspondent Major Garrett spoke to a top White House official Fri

A senior Obama administration official told CBS News Friday that North Korea's belligerent words and war-like preparations are more bluff than bite. "North Korea is in a mindset of war, but North Korea is not going to war," said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to offer insight into the latest administration thinking on the volatile situation on the Korean Peninsula. The official said North Korea is doing two things that signal it is not spoiling for war: maintaining continuous and unfettered access to the Kaesong Industrial Complex six miles north of the Demilitarized Zone and by continuing to promote tourists visits to North Korea, even amid its banging of war drums. "There is pot-banging and chest-thumping, but they have literature attracting tourists that explicitly says pay no attention to all that (public) talk about nuclear war or another kind of war," the official said. Kaesong is a hive of business activity an

People watch a TV news report showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, and other leaders, at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, March 30, 2013.  /   AP PHOTO SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA A top North Korean decision-making body issued a pointed warning Sunday, saying that nuclear weapons are "the nation's life" and will not be traded even for "billions of dollars." The comments came in a statement released after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un presided over the plenary meeting of the central committee of the ruling Workers' Party. The meeting, which set a "new strategic line" calling for building both a stronger economy and nuclear arsenal, comes amid a series of near-daily threats from Pyongyang in recent weeks, including a vow to launch nuclear strikes on the United States and a warning Saturday that the Korean Peninsula was in a "state of war." A senior U.S. official told CBS News correspondent Major Garr

Published on  March 27th, 2013 |  by Rap Rehab 0 The questions have been asked, Is Hip Hop Music Destroying America, Is Hip Hop A Threat To Our Children or Should Rappers Be Accountable For Their Lyrics? You be the judge.  Earlier this year the song “Karate Chop” leaked online featuring rapper Lil Wayne.  He raps, “Bout to put rims on my skateboard wheels/Beat that (expletive/woman genital) up like Emmett Till.”  A few weeks later a song by rapper Rocko featuring Rick Ross was release called “You Don’t Even Know It.”  Rick Ross raps, “Put molly all in her champagne, she ain’t even know it/ I took her home and I enjoyed that, she ain’t even know it.” Yes, we have our freedom of speech right, but when is freedom of speech taken too far? Many would say both rappers have taken their lyrical content too far and offended too many.  The family and estate of Emit Till have released a statement of disapproval over Lil Wayne’s disregard and disrespectful lyrics. Though his record la

Janet Hubert  did not respond nicely to  Wendy Williams ‘ questioning of  Tatiana Ali  during a recent taping of her daytime talk show,  Necole Bitche reports . Ali stopped by “The Wendy Williams Show” earlier this week and discussed a few small-talk topics like Drake and one-night stands. But, Williams got serious when she asked Ali why Hubert was replaced by the  Daphne Reid  to play “Aunt Vivian” On the “ Fresh Prince of Bel Air ” after three seasons. Ali said that she was a young child and in class whenever she was not on set, so she really did not know the details behind why Hubert was given the axe. She did admit there was “negativity” between Smith and Hubert. Want to Keep Up With NewsOne.com? LIKE Us On Facebook! What she did know was that there was an emotional void left after Hubert’s departure. “It felt like a divorce,” Ali said. “It felt like we had to get to know our new mom. Williams’ line of questioning did not sit well with Hubert and she took to Facebook

There is some new information on the four Joliet, Ill., suspects who are facing first-degree murder charges for the strangulation deaths of two 22-year-old Black men who were allegedly robbed, killed, and partially dismembered in January. Police investigators have now learned that three of the accused murderers may have had sex on top of the corpses, reports the  Joliet Patch . The four young suspects,  Alisa Massaro  (pictured top right), 18;  Bethany McKee  (pictured bottom left), 18;  Adam Landerman  (pictured top left), 19 (his mother is a Joliet police sergeant); and  Joshua Miner  (pictured bottom right), 24,  were charged with the gruesome killings of best friends Eric Glover (below pictured left), 22, and Terrence Rankin (below pictured right), 22, according to police . The bodies of Glover and Rankins were discovered in Massaro’s home, and according to Joliet police, the two victims were allegedly lured to the home, robbed of their cash, strangled, and then partiall

An alleged Orange County, Fla., prostitute was arrested and charged with attempted murder after nearly biting off a client’s penis,  the Orlando Sentinel reports . The cops were called to the Crestwood Suites on University Boulevard after multiple 911 calls complaining about screaming and growling sounds from a room on the second floor of the hotel. When the cops arrived on the scene, they found a man covered in blood from several apparent injuries to his penis, testicles, leg, abdomen, chest and fingers, according to a police report obtained by The Sentinel. The victim was rushed to the Orlando Regional Medical Center trauma center. Want to Keep Up With NewsOne.com? LIKE Us On Facebook! The allegedly attacker and escort,   Priscilla Vaughn  (pictured), “was nude, and had blood around her mouth, which had spread to her face and head,” the report states, adding Vaughn “growled and snarled” at the cops on the scene . The Sentinel has more: The victim later told d