Viewers got a first glimpse of Whitney Houston's final film today.
NBC's Today show premiered a trailer for the much-awaited release of Sparkle, a remake of the 1976 original.
The film stars Houston, who passed away last month at the age of 48, as the mother of three girls who form a singing group and struggle with fame and drug addiction.
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Gunman kills 7, wounds 3 at California Christian college
(Reuters) - A gunman opened fire at a Christian college in California on Monday, killing at least seven people and wounding three after telling former classmates: "Get in line and I'm going to kill you all."
Police said the suspect, a 43-year-old Korean-American, surrendered at a Safeway grocery store several miles away from the scene at Oikos University in Oakland after the deadliest U.S. school shooting in five years.
He was named by police as One Goh, a former student at Oikos, which has links to the Korean-American Christian community. Police described the man as both a Korean national and a naturalized American citizen from Korea. They said they believed he used a handgun and acted alone.
12 killed in Moscow market fire
Twelve people have died after a fire tore through a Moscow market warehouse that was being used by migrant workers as temporary residence.
Unconfirmed news reports said the migrants came from the impoverished Central
Asian nation of Tajikistan. Numerous Moscow markets employ cheap labourers
from the region without giving them proper housing conditions or pay.
The blaze erupted early on Tuesday at a market on the southern outskirts of
the city called Kachalovsky. Officials said it took two hours to put out.
Emergency workers described squalid living conditions in which the workers
slept on hard cots that were stacked on top of each other in rows of four
without any direct access to the outside.
Supreme Court Ruling Allows Strip-Searches for Any Arrest
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday ruled by a 5-to-4 vote that officials may strip-search people arrested for any offense, however minor, before admitting them to jails even if the officials have no reason to suspect the presence of contraband.
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, joined by the court’s conservative wing,
wrote that courts are in no position to second-guess the judgments of
correctional officials who must consider not only the possibility of
smuggled weapons and drugs, but also public health and information about
gang affiliations.
“Every detainee who will be admitted to the general population may be
required to undergo a close visual inspection while undressed,” Justice
Kennedy wrote, adding that about 13 million people are admitted each
year to the nation’s jails.
Investors Are Looking to Buy Homes by the Thousands
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — At least 20 times a day, Alan Hladik walks into a fixer-upper and tries to figure out if it is worth buying.
With home prices down more than a third from their peak and the market swamped with foreclosures,
large investors are salivating at the opportunity to buy perhaps
thousands of homes at deep discounts and fill them with tenants. Nobody
has ever tried this on such a large scale, and critics worry these new
investors could face big challenges managing large portfolios of
dispersed rental houses. Typically, landlords tend to be individuals or
small firms that own just a handful of homes.
But the new investors believe the rental income can deliver returns well above those offered by Treasury securities
or stock dividends. At the same time, economists say, they could help
areas hardest hit by the housing crash reach a bottom of the market.
