The US State Department has renewed the travel warnings for Mexico.

Drug related crime has been very high in the Northern city Ciudad Juarez and in the state of Chihuahua, across from El Paso, Texas.

If you are planning a trip to the country, the US State Department has more details on those cites with high levels of violence.

Venus Williams has done it again. She has people talking about another self designed tennis outfit. This one was made for the French Open.

For her opening two games of the tournament which were both wins, Venus choose a lace outfit with skin tone body shorts which look as though she is not wearing anything under her tennis outfit. She also designed the undershorts.

Anyone who follows the sport of tennis knows that sexy outfits and very short tennis dresses are part of the game for women.

Diane Campbell saved up her money and went to Apple to buy an iPad. She was not allowed to buy the iPad. She was told that the store only accepts a debit card or credit card for purchases of iPads.

Of course she thought that the employees at the Palo Alto store were kidding. An employee explained to her that the policy was Apple's way of reducing piracy customers who are interested in buying large amount of iPads and selling them overseas.

Apple's sales policy states that the iPad must be purchased by credit or debit card, according to ABC News. See their news video report.

Facebook has been constantly changing their policies regarding privacy. They believe that Facebook users should be willing to share more about themselves.

Facebook CEO, Mark Mark Zuckerberg announced that in his view, the age of privacy is over.

Thanks to Matt McKeon, the charts below clearly show Facebook's privacy policy and how it has evolved over the years.

The Federal government has set aside about $300 million in rebate money to encourage American consumers to buy appliances. The money is being given to all states and some U.S. territories as well.

The federal government is hoping to encourage residents to buy furnaces, clothes washers, refrigerators and other appliances with the government’s Energy Star label.

This program is similar to the government's cash for clunkers program where people where encouraged to trade in their older vehicle and receive a generous trade in value toward a new car.

If you are interested in buying a new appliance and want to find out how to receive a rebate from your your state, click here.

This is a very popular program. It has already closed in eight states.

Rebate Programs Have Closed in These States or Territories As Of 4/20/10:
•Florida
•Illinois
•Iowa
•Kansas
•Minnesota
•Rhode Island
•South Dakota
•Texas

Many people in Maryland feel that they have more in common with Northern states than Southern states today.

Lawmakers have successfully petitioned to move from the Southern Region of the Council of State Governments to the Eastern Region. This will allow Maryland to trade ideas with other Eastern Region states like New York and Pennsylvania.

The council is a place where states within the same region can share ideas on issues suck as transportation, public security, environment, etc. Switching regions does not happen often; however, Missouri switched to the Southern Region from the Midwestern Region back in 1994.

Some residents of the state feel as though Maryland has a makeup of the South and the North. Politically, the state is a solid blue state with Democrats outnumbering Republicans 2 to 1.

The U.S. Postal Service is experiencing huge deficits and declining revenue from their mail services.

They are predicting that they will deliver less mail in 2020 than in 2010. Since benefits, wages, and fuel costs continue to rise while revenues are shrinking, they will put forward a proposal to only deliver mail between Monday and Friday.

It does not help that many Americans are communicating and paying their bills online today.

The postal service already has a commission that is concluding hearings on a Postal Service proposal submitted in July to close and consolidate more than 100 post offices throughout the United States.

The U.S. Congress will have to approve the latest proposal because federal law requires 6 days of mail delivery.

The African Burial Ground National Monument’s new Visitor Center opened to the public Saturday, Feb. 27, 2010 in New York City.

The memorial honors the memories of the estimated thousands of enslaved Africans who were interred in the burial ground during the 17th and 18th centuries.

It has been built with 6,700 square-feet of space and has four exhibit areas, a theater and a gift shop.

The street-level center offers interactive exhibits showing that the African labor force was crucial to the prosperity of Dutch-colonized New Amsterdam in the 1600s, and later New York, governed by the English until the American Revolution.

Historians say one of the world's most recognizable financial institutions actually had its origins in forced labor. Enslaved Africans built a barrier across Manhattan, a wall that would later be known as Wall Street.

About 15,000 African slaves and their descendants were once unceremoniously buried under what is today Manhattan — and forgotten.

The forgotten burial place was rediscovered in 1991, when construction began on the foundation of a federal office building. The remains of about 400 men, women and children were found 20 feet underground.

Finally, the 400 or so slaves found have finally received a proper burial.

The government building was redesigned to accommodate the memorial, and in 1993 the Burial Ground became a National Historic Landmark.

The African Burial Ground National Monument is part of the National Park Service, and there's no entrance fee. Go to their website for directions.

The photograph above is actually a photograph of artwork created by Frank Bender. He is a world renowned sculptor, known for his work on forensic facial identifications, fugitive age progressions and fine art.

The memorial opens daily at 9 a.m. and closes at 5 p.m. except Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years Day. However, during the winter, the memorial closes at 4 p.m.

Police said they've arrested a teenager who caused thousands of dollars in damage to a western New York home's hardwood floor by break dancing on it while wearing a large diamond belt buckle.

Erie County Sheriff Timothy B. Howard said the 18-year-old named R. Baczkiewicz apparently was intoxicated when he arrived at a house party held by the victim's daughters in Elma, a small town just east of Buffalo. He said when the teen repeatedly tried to break dance he gouged the floor and caused about $3,000 worth of damage.

Police said the victim (homeowner) was on vacation at the time.

A sheriff's deputy arrested the teen Sunday night at his home in neighboring Cheektowaga, a Buffalo suburb.

Baczkiewicz was charged with criminal mischief in the second degree, a class D felony, and criminal trespass in the second degree, a class A misdemeanor. He was taking to the Holding Center on no bail, pending his arraignment in the Town of Elma Court.

It is necessary to point out that the defendant is Caucasian so this not necessarily a racist arrest. However, there is a certain amount of hatred for the Hip-Hop culture and you have to wonder if the police that arrested the young man have anything against the this culture in general and the people associated with it in particular.

A 61 year old New Yorker faces a $135 traffic fine for using a mannequin as her "plus one" in the car pool lane for vehicles with multiple passengers during rush hour on the Long Island Expressway in New York.

A sheriff's deputy on Long Island became curious when he saw the passenger wearing sunglasses and using the visor. According to the officer, the problem is that the sky was overcast.

When the officer stopped the vehicle, he found the mannequin, fully dressed with a long dark wig, blazer, shirt and scarf.

One can only wonder if this was worth it for the driver. It really depends on how long the driver used the mannequin in order to drive in the fast lane versus the $135ticket as well as any other damage to her drivers license.

When you thought that you knew almost everything you wanted to know about women, you find out that there is much more to know. Why are some woman unhappy with their vajayjay? The list below will give you a clue.

1. Problem: Your Vagina Smells Bad
Solution: Vaginal Deodorant - this one is obvious.


2. Problem: Your Vagina Is Dirty
Solution: Douching - this is clearly when it is cleaned.

3. Problem: Your Vagina Is Too Loose
Solution: Vaginal Rejuvenation - this is when she wants it smaller, tighter.

4. Problem: Your Vagina Is Ugly
Solution: Labiaplasty - sometimes the lips are uneven, too long (subjective), large, etc.

5. Problem: Your Vagina Tastes Bad
Solution: Vagina Mints - novelty item with sugar that can raise risk of yeast infections.

6. Problem: Your Vagina Is the Wrong Color
Solution: Vaginal Bleaching and Dying - when the color is not right

If you want to read more about this topic, visit Mother Jones.

Caressa Cameron who is Miss Virginia won the 2010 Miss America crown. She is a 22 year old woman, and the daughter of a contractor and background researcher for the government.

She has spoken about being motivated to enter and compete in pageants at the age of 14, when Miss Virginia 2003 Nancy Redd visited her school. This is another example of how seeing someone like yourself in a position that is positive can have a lasting impact on a child, teenager, or young adult. Nancy Redd, the 2003 Miss Virginia is also a woman of color.

Caressa Cameron, is a broadcast journalism student at Virginia Commonwealth University. She plans to take off the year from school to handle all the fundraising and charity work that comes with the territory of being Miss America.

We should all celebrate her and her accomplishments to date. If you have a young daughter, make sure that they know about this beautiful, young, and smart woman that looks just like her.

Note: Miss America & Miss USA are two different pageants that people normally confuse. The winner of the Miss USA pageant represents the United States in the Miss Universe 2010 competition. However, Caressa Cameron will be very happy with the $50,000 dollars in scholarship money which she won in the Miss America 2010 pageant.

Between 2000 and 2008, the number of poor people living in America rose by 15.4 percent -- nearly twice the growth rate in the overall population in the same period.

The poverty rate in American suburbs increased 25 percent during that period -- and is growing significantly faster than the national average and urban rate. Due in large part to suburban population growth and the housing slump, the suburbs now contain the nation's biggest and fastest-growing poor population.

The Brookings Institution published a report showing that from Las Vegas to Boise to Houston, suburban poverty has been growing steadily.

"The enduring social and fiscal challenges for cities that stem from high poverty are increasingly shared by their suburbs," the report concludes. It's a problem some may assume is confined to the ragged fringes of so-called "inner ring" suburbs that directly border cities, places where the housing stock is older and from which many wealthier residents long ago departed. But this isn't the case. "Overall...first suburbs did not bear the brunt of increasing suburban poverty in the early 2000s," notes the Brookings report, which found that economic distress has spread to "second-tier suburbs and 'exurbs'" as well.

The result is a historic milestone that has gone strangely ignored: For the first time ever, more poor Americans live in the suburbs than in all our cities combined. - Read Report