The King of Pop is dead. The greatest entertainer of his era, and perhaps of all time, Michael Jackson was pronounced dead Thursday at UCLA Medical Center after going into cardiac arrest at his home in Los Angeles. He was 50 years old. . . .

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Harmless comic characters or racist robots? The buzz over the summer blockbuster ``Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'' only grew this week as some said two jive-talking Chevy characters were racial caricatures.

Low-income young adults, ages 18-24, are still needed to fill summer jobs in Clark County organizations for work between July 6, and Aug. 14. Positions are for 30 hours per week over the six week period. Workers will be paid minimum wage and will also receive training to help build their work readiness skills.

Connect with other working-class women. Hear what Grassroots Women has been up to in the past year. Share ideas of what we can do together to further the struggle for genuine women's liberation! Sunday, July 26, 1 – 4 pm. Grassroots Women is an anti-imperialist women's organization formed in Vancouver in 1995. We stand and fight for the following: Our democratic right to expose and oppose the negative impacts of imperialist globalization in Canada and internationally, particularly its impacts on working class and other marginalized women. . . . 

Oregon lawmakers completed action Saturday on a measure to suspend most provisions of a voter-approved measure requiring longer sentences for repeat property and drug offenders. The Senate's 22-8 vote to send the bill to Gov. Ted Kulongoski came as lawmakers continued their push to wrap up the 2009 Legislature by Tuesday's adjournment deadline. In a rare Saturday gathering, the Senate acted on dozens of other measures . . .

The Jena Six case, which once prompted a massive civil rights demonstration and drew international attention, saw the final chapter played out quietly. Five neatly dressed young men answered "Yes Sir,'' on Friday as state District Judge Tom Yeager asked them if they accepted the terms of a deal that included pleading no contest to misdemeanor simple battery. The charges against the five. . . .

It was the mid-1970s.  The nation was fresh off the heels of the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War was finally over and people began adjusting to a newly, fully integrated society.  Blacks and Whites worked side by side, and women and minorities slowly but surely began to crack open that all too visible glass ceiling in triumphant ways.  As society progressed however, we waited – and yearned – for that one individual who could break the mold in mainstream pop culture. . . .

The cardiologist who was with Michael Jackson during the pop star's final moments sat down with investigators for three hours to explain his actions, and his spokeswoman says he is not a suspect. Dr. Conrad Murray, a physician with a tangled financial and personal history who was hired to accompany Jackson on his planned summer concert tour, reportedly performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation until paramedics arrived at Jackson's rented home. . .

In one of the most important employment law cases of the decade, the U.S. Supreme Court handed employees a 5-4 victory by recognizing that even good-faith employment decisions can sometimes lead to results that give rise to lawsuits if those results fall more harshly on one class of employees than on another. But the news is certainly not all bad for employers – the Supreme Court's ruling provides justification for those tough decisions . . . .