BRADLEY KLAPPER, Associated Press MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is putting a large dent in the U.S. embargo against Cuba as...
JAKE COYLE, AP Film Writer Two extravagant comedies, “Birdman” and “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” dominated nominations for the 87th annual Academy Awards with nine nods each,...
(New York Times) – A recent applicant for a job as a correction officer at New York City jails had several friends who were gang members....
(The Washington Post) – Trying to predict the gender and race of a member of Congress is like trying to predict who would win a...
The announcement of one of the most important Oakland public works restoration projects in recent memory went virtually unnoticed during the recent mayoral campaign. Last September,...
Bruce Beasley of West Oakland is an internationally known sculptor who bequeathed his two-block cluster of studios and sculpture gardens to the Oakland Museum of California.
Mayor Edwin M. Lee and City Administrator Naomi Kelly announced $1.2 million in matching Community Challenge Grants to residents, businesses, schools, non-profits and community groups to...
ELAINE GANLEY, Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Firebombs and pig heads thrown into mosques. Veiled women subjected to insults in the street. The Internet awash with...
(CNN) – It is a message of defiance, but also forgiveness — and many Muslims responded with similarly mixed emotions. It is a magazine cover depicting...
The International CES show debuts hundreds of new products. Our experts have hand-selected the best of show to bring you the CES 2015 Editors’ Choice...
YOUKYUNG LEE, AP Technology Writer SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung Electronics Co. started selling a $90 smartphone in India on Wednesday that runs on the...
BRANDON BAILEY, AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple has patented a new design for a digital video camera that could potentially compete with the...
NEW HAVEN (New York Times) — One of my elderly patients has Type 2 diabetes and heart disease. He takes a number of medications, including insulin...
(HealthDay News) — If the current high rates of monitoring and hospitalization continue, the Ebola epidemic in Liberia could be halted by the middle of...
(News Medical) – An independent panel convened by the National Institutes of Health concluded that individualized, patient-centered care is needed to treat and monitor the estimated...
(CNBC) – This past year was all about the “vape.” But the trend in which smokers inhale vapor from tobacco, marijuana and other nontobacco-based liquids...
KIMBERLY PIERCEALL, Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Financial problems plaguing Caesars Entertainment and its casino empire have the company considering a trip to bankruptcy court,...
ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS, AP Legal Affairs Writer COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio law that singles out professional athletes and entertainers for taxation even when they’re in...
By Breanna Edwards, The Root Two members of the Tuskegee Airmen, the renowned all-black group of military pilots who fought bravely in World War II, passed...
Mayor Libby Schaaf will present this year’s annual Oakland Citizen Humanitarian Award to Regina Jackson for her outstanding work on behalf of the Oakland community at...
By Kate Brumback ATLANTA (AP) – The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s traveling Bible hasn’t gone on regular display since President Barack Obama used it while...
“Dr. King had awakened something strong and true, a sense that true justice must be colorblind, and that among white and Black Americans, as he put...
EMMANUEL CAMILLO, Associated Press MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) — Heavy flooding in Mozambique has killed 10 people and displaced nearly 20,000 more, the government disaster management office...
DANICA COTO, Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The crime wave that marred Puerto Rico’s image in recent years appears to have ebbed, with...
RISDEL KASASIRA, Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda’s military said Tuesday the Lord’s Resistance Army rebel commander who surrendered to American troops last week will...
