WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is providing $11 billion to prevent a 28 percent reduction in federal highway and mass transit spending at the peak of...
PHILIP MARCELO, Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus told a national convention of black journalists on Thursday that the GOP has...
(USA Today) – SAN FRANCISCO — Most of eBay’s U.S. workers — some 85% — are white and Asian. Nearly all of eBay’s U.S. technology...
LARA JAKES, AP National Security Writer NEW DELHI (AP) — Hours past midnight Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was still working the phones, trying...
JOSH BOAK, AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The fees that banks charge debit-card users who overdraw their accounts usually cost more than the items being...
DAVID GINSBURG, AP Sports Writer OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) — Ray Rice stepped to the microphone, took a deep breath and spoke for 17 minutes about...
(USA Today) – Getting Get On Up to the screen was a drama in itself. Producer Brian Grazer, who grew up loving James Brown’s music,...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Abbigal Muleya, a young woman from Zimbabwe, traveled by bus for 18 hours just to apply...
The roots of a culture, the power of unity, the power of the word and a powerful Brooklyn concert by Ashahed M. Muhammad Special to the...
(Los Angeles Times) – Amazon.com made its boldest move yet into the electronics hardware business by entering the fiercely competitive smartphone market earlier this month...
PRINCETON, NJ — Even as overall party identification trends in the U.S. have shifted over the past six and half years, the relationship between religion and...
(Slate) – In the United States, conventional wisdom holds that you should raise your child to be religious. Taking the kids to church is the...
(BBC) – The UK government has announced that driverless cars will be allowed on public roads from January next year. It also invited cities to compete...
(ZDNet) – Late Sunday re/code broke the news that Apple acquired Concept.io for $30 million. The company’s Swell app for iOS was best described by Liz Gannes as “Pandora-for-talk-radio” and was...
(Telegraph) – Online dating is a bit of a science experiment. Honestly, are there any websites out there that don’t treat their users as semi-consenting...
(ZDNet) – On July 30, Microsoft officials took the wraps off the first update to the Windows Phone 8.1 operating system. A developer preview of Windows Phone 8.1...
(The Washington Post) – Don’t for a minute think that the Cheesecake Factory makes the most caloric meal in America. According to the Center for...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Johnson & Johnson is asking surgeons not to use a line of devices for performing hysterectomies and removing growths from the uterus...
WASHINGTON (Xinhua) — A simple blood test to detect a chemical alteration in a single human gene linked to negative thoughts and impulses may reliably predict a...
JULIE PACE, AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration condemned the deadly shelling of a United Nations school in Gaza Wednesday, using tough,...
(Reuters) – U.S. mobile phone users have likely paid hundreds of millions of dollars in unauthorized charges “crammed” onto their bills, according to a report...
CANDICE CHOI, AP Food Industry Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Whole Foods is getting ready to launch its first national marketing campaign and expand home delivery...
(Bloomberg) – Sales at Ames Ford Lincoln in Iowa have risen fivefold in the last 18 months as buyers embrace low-cost financing on popular models like the Fusion sedan...
