SAN FRANCISCO — For years, sex workers have been the entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley that no one talks about. But with money flowing from the...
(New York Times) – When the car service Uber and its competitors make news, it is usually for something like the raucous protests against them by cabdrivers across...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Dozens of companies, including Apple, Honda and Coca-Cola, have agreed to pay their suppliers more quickly in a bid to boost small...
TIM REYNOLDS, AP Sports Writers TOM WITHERS, AP Sports Writers When it comes to LeBron James, all that’s certain is this: One fan base is about...
By Dwight Brown NNPA Film Critic At the end of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, the 2011 version of the classic 1968 ape movie, you...
JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A powerful government workers’ union will end its support for the United Negro College Fund after the...
(Politico) – The evidence is piling up now: Obamacare really does seem to be helping the uninsured. Survey after survey is showing that the number...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Chinese hackers broke into the computer networks of the Office of Personnel Management earlier this year with the intention of accessing the files of tens...
Youkyoung Lee, ASSOCIATED PRESS SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung is facing a fresh accusation that one of its China suppliers hired children to meet production targets during...
(Business Standard)—For the first time, researchers have been able to switch off consciousness in a woman by electrically stimulating a single brain area. The discovery...
By Dr. Janice B. Schwartz, SAN FRANCISCO GATE (San Francisco Gate)—I recently wrote about new recommendations for managing high cholesterol that focused on the use of...
Aron Heller and Najib Jobain, ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel dramatically escalated its aerial assault targeting hundreds of Hamas sites in the Gaza Strip Thursday as...
Christopher Torchia, ASSOCIATED PRESS JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The former head of a South African covert police unit that tortured and killed dozens of people during...
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s highest court says Apple’s characteristic retail store layout may be registered as a trademark. The Court of Justice on Thursday overturned a...
(The Guardian)—IBM is to invest $3bn (£1.7bn) over the next five years in chip research and development in hopes of finding a game-changing breakthrough that can help...
Pan Pylas, ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON (AP) — More “headline-grabbing” acquisitions are likely over the coming year as businesses take advantage of a period of improving...
Joseph White, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — NCAA President Mark Emmert told a Senate committee Wednesday he supports “scholarships for life” and other reforms in how athletes...
(BBC News)—John Wayne’s heirs are taking North Carolina’s Duke University to court over the right to use the actor’s nickname to market a line of bourbon....
Jeff Labrecque, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY (Entertainment Weekly)—In the perfect marriage of politics and Hollywood casting, Robert Redford might portray Dan Rather in a dramatic thriller about the...
Robert Jablon and Andrew Dalton, ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES (AP) — Three years after his savage beating at the hands of Los Angeles fans at...
by Marsha Rose Joyner Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Freedom Summer 1964: It seems that all of my life I have been infected...
Linda Deutsch, ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling made a dramatic scene from the witness stand then an even more dramatic...
Alan Duke, CNN ATLANTA (CNN) — Apollo Nida, husband of “Real Housewives of Atlanta” co-star Phaedra Parks, is headed to prison for eight years on fraud...
