Jacqueline Simpson, a 52-year-old says she bought the sandwich at the Mickey Ds near the World Trade Center in May 2010 and her voice hasn’t been the same since.

She says she can no longer sing soprano, and she told the NY Post that people have mistaken her for a man on the phone.

Global retailers, like H&M, Gap and Uniqlo, are facing renewed public outrage over the poor, unsafe conditions in the factories mass producing those cute and stylish sun dresses.

Despite having nothing to do with the factory collapse in Bangladesh, which killed more than 140 people in late April, H&M is joining an effort to get other big players in the “fast retailing” business to hold factory owners accountable for criminally low-wages, unsafe facilities and other issues that have gone unaddressed, reports the New York Times.

After the factory collapse, H&M began seeing customer complaints on its Facebook page, which currently features Beyonce’s Bangladesh-made swimsuit.

On Friday, members of Congress grilled I.R.S. and treasury officials about the targeting of conservative groups for extra scrutiny of their applications for tax-exemption. Bipartisan outrage was palpable as the congressional hearings kicked off in the House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee. But there was little doubt that some Republican members of the subcommittee were looking to directly link President Barack Obama and his administration to the scandal.

By most accounts, Republicans will have a hard time linking it to the White House, reports the New York Times. In opening remarks, ranking subcommittee member Rep. Sander Levin (D-Mich) cautioned anyone trying to use the hearing as a continuation of the 2012 election or to prepare for the 2014 midterm elections. Those persons, Levin said, would be “making a very big mistake.”

If enacted, Obama’s budget proposal would cut more than $1.1 trillion from national deficits over 10 years, the Congressional Budget Office said on Friday.

Obama’s proposal, when released last month, got little more than a murmur in Washington, the New York Times reports. His proposal includes almost $1 trillion in tax increases on high-income family, an increase on tobacco taxes and introduces the Buffett Rule, a minimum tax on an individual’s income over $1 million.

Senate Democrats and House Republicans have not yet agreed to begin talks on this budget. (Most of them are distracted by the I.R.S. scandal and the Benghazi controversy, among other things.)

One ticket, sold in Florida, matched each of the numbers drawn for the highest jackpot in history, The Associated Press reports.

“This would be the sixth Florida Powerball winner and right now, it’s the sole winner of the largest ever Powerball jackpot,” state lottery executive Cindy O’Connell told AP. “We’re delighted right now that (Florida has) the sole winner.”

The winning numbers were 10, 13, 14, 22 and 52, with a Powerball of 11. At an estimated $590 million, the jackpot includes a nearly $376.9 million cash payment option.

According to a Washington Post report, the Justice Department, headed by Attorney General Eric Holder, spied on Fox News justice correspondent James Rosen in 2010.

Justice Department officials collected Rosen’s telephone records, tracked his movements around the State Department and seized two days of his personal emails, according to an FBI agent’s affidavit. The agent alleges Rosen’s activities were well outside the bounds of traditional news gathering.

This is not good for President Obama who is supposedly a “strong defender of the First Amendment and a firm believer in the need for the press to be unfettered in its ability to conduct investigative reporting,” White House spokesman Jay Carney insisted last week.

Fox News responded to the reports on Monday by asserting Rosen was “simply doing his job” as “a member of what up until now has always been a free press.”

According to TMZ, 56-year-old comedian, David Adkins, aka Sinbad, has filed for bankruptcy for the second time last month stating he is in debt for approximately $11 million, $8 million of which includes owed money in back taxes.

He previously filed for bankruptcy in 2009 right before he appeared on Donald Trump’s Celebrity Apprentice.

In March 2013, Sinbad told Oprah that his current financial situation troubles weren’t a result of an extravagant lifestyle.

“I didn’t buy Bentleys. I didn’t live large. I invested in me. I invested in a lot of other people. I would not change it; I would not go back,” he said. “It’s never over. There’s no one defining moment that kills you or makes you.”

Salomon told the newsroom that she’ll continue as senior editor-at-large “focusing on The Root’s offerings about history and heritage.”

Salomon started as deputy editor and has been with the site for three years.

“This clearly looks to be a hate crime,” Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said at a news conference on Saturday. A suspect, later identified as Elliot Morales, 33, was arrested.

Mark Carson, the victim, was 32 and had recently moved to Brooklyn from Harlem after “scrimping and saving money from his job at a yogurt shop in Midtown,” a friend told the New York Times

America’s first black president addressing a black male graduating class urged graduates to “inspire those who look up to you to expect more of themselves.”

Obama also talked about his personal story, growing up without a father he wished had been around and involved, and his desire to be a better father to daughters Malia and Sasha than his father was to him.

“We know that too many young men in our community continue to make bad choices,” he said. “Growing up, I made quite a few myself. Sometimes I wrote off my own failings as just another example of the world trying to keep a black man down. I had a tendency sometimes to make excuses for me not doing the right thing. But one of the things that all of you have learned over the last four years, is there’s no longer any room for excuses.”

Read more and watch the entire address here.