Philadelphia students tell Gingrich, Sharpton, Duncan that caring teachers make a difference. The Rev. Al Sharpton and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich don't agree on much, but a meeting with a group of inner-city charter school students on Tuesday left them with the same impression: There is hope for improving the U.S. education system.

Today in History - Oct. 4. Today is Sunday, Oct. 4, the 277th day of 2009. There are 88 days left in the year.

NYC's Chinatown could get 1st Chinese rep on council as Asian-Americans see surge at the polls. Chinatown is likely to get its first Chinese-American representative on the City Council, and a Taiwanese immigrant is headed for citywide office ? a dramatic change for the nation's largest city, which had no Asian-Americans in elected office just eight years ago.

Revs. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson urge NFL to block bid by Rush Limbaugh for St. Louis Rams. The Revs. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson attacked the bid by Rush Limbaugh to buy the St. Louis Rams on Monday, saying the conservative radio host's track record on race should exclude him from owning an NFL team. Sharpton sent a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, arguing that Limbaugh has been divisive and "anti-NFL" in some of his comments.

Rush Limbaugh's bid to buy St. Louis Rams gets a resounding no from Colts owner. Rush Limbaugh's bid to buy the St. Louis Rams ran into opposition within the NFL on Tuesday, when Colts owner Jim Irsay vowed to vote against him and commissioner Roger Goodell said the conservative commentator's "divisive" comments would not be tolerated from any NFL insider.

Conservative radio talk show host Limbaugh dropped from group seeking to buy Rams. Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh has been dropped from a group seeking to buy the St. Louis Rams.

Radio host Rush Limbaugh lashes out at critics after being dropped in Rams ownership bid. Conservative radio personality Rush Limbaugh lashed out at NFL union leader DeMaurice Smith, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and the media a day after being dropped from a group trying to buy the St. Louis Rams. On his syndicated show Thursday, Limbaugh said he was approached by St. Louis Blues chairman Dave Checketts earlier this year about participating in a Rams bid. Checketts assured him his involvement as a minority investor had been vetted by the NFL, he said.

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh lashed out Thursday, after he was dropped from a group bidding to buy the National Football League's St. Louis Rams.

The Rev. Sharpton threatens to sue Rush Limbaugh for saying he played role in 2 NY race riots. The Rev. Al Sharpton on Saturday threatened to sue conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh for writing in a column that the civil rights leader played a role in two New York race riots.

PHOENIX (Reuters) - An Arizona sheriff known for cracking down on undocumented migrants is conducting an immigration and crime sweep around Phoenix, less than a day after federal authorities curbed his powers to make immigration arrests.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) - Comedian Chris Rock's documentary movie "Good Hair" can open across the U.S. this week after a judge on Monday ruled against a filmmaker who accused the comedian of stealing her idea for the film.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comedian Chris Rock's documentary movie "Good Hair" can open across the U.S. this week after a judge on Monday ruled against a filmmaker who accused the comedian of stealing her idea for the film.

In the new documentary ``Good Hair,'' Chris Rock finds great comedy in what still lingers as a tragedy. The black compulsion to straighten, lengthen, and lusterize hair comes from an institutional preoccupation with whiteness. And it doesn't feel like a vestigial preoccupation, either. The black hip-hop music video star Melyssa Ford tells Rock she grew up bitter that she never had her white mother's hair. By her own accounting, she now spends about $18,000 a year trying to approximate it with weaves and relaxers. The film was spurred by Rock's dilemma over how to care for his two young daughters' little afro puffs. Would he keep them natural? Would he have them relaxed? ``Good Hair'' is the antic, free-ranging culmination of his crisis. Rock tours the country's barber shops and beauty parlors, interviewing people about why they do what they do to their hair and the extremes they take to maintain it. He drops in on Atlanta's annual Bronner Bros. International Hair Show and devotes what

Guests for the Sunday TV news shows. Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows:

Sharpton, Gingrich join education secretary to push cities to fix failing schools. Education Secretary Arne Duncan is joining forces with two unlikely allies, the Rev. Al Sharpton and Republican former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, to push cities to fix failing schools.

Michael Jackson's death has been declared a homicide by Los Angeles coroners as they revealed the singer had a lethal cocktail of six different drugs in his body when he died.

Michael Jackson's death has been declared a homicide by Los Angeles coroners as they revealed the singer had a lethal cocktail of six different drugs in his body when he died.

Rev. Sharpton leads vigil in NYC 20 years after the racially charged murder of Yusuf Hawkins. In 1989, after a white mob attacked and killed a black teenager in Brooklyn, the Rev. Al Sharpton led black demonstrators down streets where angry whites confronted them, yelling obscenities and throwing bricks and watermelons their way.

A glittering gold coffin adorned with a crown carried Michael Jackson to his final resting place here as family and friends saluted the tragic "King of Pop" in a poignant farewell.

Michael Jackson's poignant final journey got under way as around 200 family and close friends gathered for the music icon's funeral at a star-studded Los Angeles cemetery.