NEW YORK — In the midst of a worrisome flu season, health officials are pushing doctors to prescribe antiviral medicines more often. The Centers for...
Terry Wallace, ASSOCIATED PRESS DALLAS (AP) — Roy Tarpley, the former Dallas Mavericks star center whose NBA career was cut short by drug abuse, died...
Aaron Ross, REUTERS KINSASHA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters)—Tens of thousands of civilians are likely to be forced to flee their homes during a planned...
Corinne Heller, E! ONLINE NEW YORK (EOnline.com)—Jennifer Hudson, an Oscar and Grammy winner, is set to make her debut in a Broadway show, The Color Purple,...
Sadie Gurman, ASSOCIATED PRESS COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Authorities on Friday released a composite sketch of the man they believe detonated an explosive near...
Kelli Kennedy, ASSOCIATED PRESS MIAMI (AP) — Florida authorities say George Zimmerman, whose acquittal of murdering an unarmed black teen sparked a national debate on...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Authorities are looking for a man who may have information about a homemade explosive that someone set off near the Colorado...
Nicole Flatow, THINK PROGRESS (ThinkProgress.com)—A Ferguson grand juror who heard the case of Darren Wilson previewed potentially scathing criticism of St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Sandwiched between the deaths of former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo and popular ESPN sportscaster Stuart Scott, the passing...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist After a phenomenal election last November in which Republicans increased their margins in the House and took control of the...
By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Columnist “Like the rest of America, Black America, in the aggregate, is better off now than it was when I...
By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist “New York, New York Big City of Dreams but Everything in New York is Not Always What It Seems You...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist The 2015 Martin Luther King, Jr. National Holiday should have a different impact on the collective consciousness of...
Dear Mr. Barkley: I write you out of love. I write you out of profound pain. I write you out of deep concern. I hope...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist In the middle of turmoil between police officers and unarmed African-Americans is the need for ex-pros Charles Barkley and Mike...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist What now? What a raucous, topsy-turvy, heart-wrenching, angry year we experienced in 2014. We had everything from the sadness of...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I found it quite amazing to hear the reactions by much of the public to the Senate Intelligence Committee...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist I will be 67 years old next month. For nearly half of those years my wife, Kay, and I...
Paul Davidson, USA TODAY (USA Today)—A strengthening labor market will not let up this year, economists say, with job growth approaching or exceeding the estimated...
Rebecca Boone, ASSOCIATED PRESS (AP)—When Congress passed a law in 2003 aimed at ending sexual assault in U.S. prisons, jails and juvenile detention centers, survivors...
Ann Oldenburg, USA TODAY (USA Today)—Celebrity Apprentice returned with a new season on NBC on Sunday night, and the episode wound up being all...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters)—Islamist militants have overrun an army base in the remote northeast Nigerian town of Baga, two security sources said on Sunday. Baga is...
ANKARA, Turkey (Reuters)—Turkey and the United States aim to finalize an agreement on equipping and training moderate Syrian rebels this month, a senior foreign ministry...
Noah Rayman, TIME MAGAZINE NEW YORK (TIME.com)—Citations for traffic violations fell from 10,069 to 587 in the week starting Dec. 22. The NYPD confirmed a report...
Justin Moyer and Nick Kirkpatrick, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—Since an unarmed black teenager was killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo., on...