Overwhelming youth support for President-elect Barack Obama in battleground states kept this election out of reach for Sen. McCain, according to Eric Greenberg, author of “Generation We: How Millennial Youth Are Taking Over America and Changing Our World Forever.”
“This race would have been extremely close had the youth vote not been so active. Nationally there [...]

LOS ANGELES – In an election otherwise full of liberal triumphs, the gay rights movement suffered a stunning defeat as California voters approved a ban on same-sex marriages that overrides a recent court decision legalizing them.
The constitutional amendment — widely seen as the most momentous of the nation’s 153 ballot measures — will limit marriage [...]

Americans have spoken, and their collective voice has summoned for change.
After years of ads, infomercials, primaries, debates and an online campaign that generated a groundswell of support among the nation’s disaffected youth, Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has defeated the Republican pick for president, Arizona Senator John McCain. The junior senator from the state of [...]

Fall Out Boy announced today that they believe they set the Guinness World Record for the Most Interviews On Radio In a 24 Hour Period By A Pair of Two (final certification to come from Guinness World Records after receiving documentation) with 72 radio interviews.
Pete Wentz and Patrick Vaughn Stump took over the radio airwaves [...]

These days, the old west rail hub of Las Vegas, New Mexico, is little more than a dusty economic dead zone amid a boneyard of bare mesas. In national elections, the town overwhelmingly votes Democratic: More than 80 percent of all residents are Hispanic, and one in four lives below the poverty line. On February [...]

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – A Florida teenager has been sentenced to 18 months in juvenile detention for coaxing his senile grandmother into holding a gun and threatening to shoot “all the pigs” in a homemade “gangster rap” video.
Eighteen-year-old Michael Alfinez pleaded guilty Tuesday to elder abuse charges. His family has said the case was [...]

Quietdrive’s sophomore release Deliverance debuted last week at #1 on Billboard’s Alternative New Artist Chart, beating out other releases by We The Kings, The Secret Machines, Ludo, Mayday Parade, Ra Ra Riot and Black Kids, among others.
Deliverance is currently streaming in its entirety exclusively on Purevolume. Head over to www.purevolume.com/quietdrive to listen [...]

College senior Kyla Berry was looking forward to voting in her first presidential election, even carrying her voter registration card in her wallet.
“Vote suppression is real. It does sometimes happen,” said Daniel P. Tokaji, a law professor at Ohio State University.
But about two weeks ago, Berry got disturbing news from local election officials.
“This office has [...]

Apple Inc. announced Friday it is contributing $100,000 to the campaign against California’s Proposition 8, which would outlaw same-sex marriage in the state.
In a statement posted on its Web site, the company, based in Cupertino, Calif., called marriage a fundamental right.
“Apple was among the first California companies to offer equal rights and benefits to our [...]

DJ AM was back on the decks for the first time since surviving a fiery plane crash.
The visibly scarred celebrity disc jockey, whose real name is Adam Goldstein, joined Jay-Z at a special concert Wednesday celebrating the reopening of the Hollywood Palladium, the historic venue which once hosted the likes of Frank Sinatra, “The [...]