Oakland, CA – Off to a great start. The A’s scored a season-high twelve run including six runs in the fourth inning, their most in an...
(Bloomberg) – General Electric Co. plans to exit the bulk of its lending business, including a $26.5 billion sale of most of its real estate,...
(BBC) – The pound has fallen to its lowest level against the dollar for nearly five years on weak UK industrial output figures and uncertainty over...
(AL.com) – OK procrastinators, the clock is ticking. The tax filing deadline for 2014 returns is less than one week away, and if you’ve waited...
GARISSA, Kenya (Wall Street Journal) – One year ago, President Uhuru Kenyatta declared on television that the era of insecurity was over for Kenyans. He vowed that...
(BBC) – Kenyans have taken to the streets and to social media to express their grief at the death of 148 people in the al-Shabab attack...
EVENS SANON, Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — At least 21 people have died and 17 others are missing in a suspected boat capsizing off Haiti’s...
ANTONIO GONZALEZ, AP Basketball Writer OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Stephen Curry never talks about his case for NBA MVP unless he’s asked. Instead, he prefers to...
GARY B. GRAVES, AP Sports Writer LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A record seven players are leaving a mighty Kentucky team after a season that fell two...
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — No surprise and no suspense from Jahlil Okafor: The Duke freshman is headed to the NBA. The 6-foot-11 All-American announced his decision...
TALES AZZONI, AP Sports Writer SAO PAULO (AP) — Most Brazilian players dream of making it to a top European football club. These days, though, some...
(Raw Story) – A guest on Sean Hannity’s Fox News program walked out of the studio Thursday night to protest the bizarre arguments of another...
By Desley Brooks It is widely known now that I have called for an office of Race and Equity to be established in the City of...
(Broadway World) – The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will present the 18th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor to Eddie Murphy...
(People) – How is Bobbi Kristina Brown doing? In the weeks after she was found unresponsive in her bathtub on Jan. 29, there was an endless...
(People) – This past season of New York Fashion Week, rapper-slash-fashion guru Kanye West debuted his first show at New York Fashion Week in partnership...
ULA ILNYTZKY, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — One hundred years ago, African-Americans began a mass exodus from the rural South, heading north in search of...
When talking with artist and songwriter Bobby Brackins, it’s natural for one to be in awe of his musical ingenuity. He first entered the music scene...
JEFFREY COLLINS, Associated Press MITCH WEISS, Associated Press NORTH CHARLESTON, South Carolina (AP) — As its population surged in the last decade, South Carolina’s third-largest city...
JEFFREY COLLINS, Associated Press MITCH WEISS, Associated Press NORTH CHARLESTON, South Carolina (AP) — As its population surged in the last decade, South Carolina’s third-largest city...
(CNN) – Hillary Clinton is planning to launch her presidential candidacy on Sunday through a video message on social media, a person close to her campaign-in-waiting...
(New York Times) – It was not a particularly violent crime that sent Michael Megginson to Rikers Island. He was arrested for stealing a cellphone. But in...
“Simon’s on the radio!” an inmate on San Quentin’s death row called out early one morning two years ago. Other cheers of excitement filled the cellblock,...
JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS, Associated Press TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The University of Oklahoma’s new chief of diversity programs says he knows why he’s the right fit for...
by Bert Wilkinson Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News The six-week-old government in the Eastern Caribbean twin island federation of St. Kitts...
