ELAINE KURTENBACH, AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Only small fries with that? McDonald’s in Japan is limiting the serving size of fries as stocks run...
(International Business Times) – Amir Hekmati, a former U.S. Marine, who is imprisoned in Iran for more than three years for allegedly spying for the...
(Business Week) – When Malcolm Gladwell wrote a story for the New Yorker five years ago about how underdogs can triumph through unorthodox tactics, he focused on a basketball team...
TAMMY WEBBER, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Little League International said it is confident that Chicago’s national championship Little League team did not violate “residency regulations”...
STEPHEN WILSON, AP Sports Writer LONDON (AP) — IOC President Thomas Bach welcomed the U.S. decision to bid for the 2024 Olympics, saying Wednesday that whichever...
LINDSEY BAHR, AP Film Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Carmike Cinemas has decided to cancel its planned showings of “The Interview” in the wake of threats...
(Deadline) – MGM’s Rocky spinoff Creed has found its female lead in Tessa Thompson, the actress who broke out this year in the Sundance hit Dear White People and also can be...
JENNIFER PELTZ, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Ashanti faced a fan accused of stalking and harassing her family for years, telling him and a jury...
STEPHEN OHLEMACHER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell declared Tuesday that approving the Keystone XL pipeline will top the Senate agenda in...
KATHY MATHESON, Associated Press SEAN CARLIN, Associated Press PENNSBURG, Pa. (AP) — An Iraq War veteran suspected of killing his ex-wife and five of her relatives...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist You can evaluate the quality of life in a society by the way it treats its children. Too many...
JULIE PACE, Associated Press MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and Cuba have agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations and open economic and...
By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Columnist We’ve seen it before: The injustice, the reactions, the non-stop talking and tweeting after yet another headline grabbing tragedy....
(Black Enterprise) – By now most people have hear of crowdfunding, the method of raising capital through the collective effort of friends, family, customers, and...
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A brain-injury treatment program originally designed for military veterans injured on the battlefield has been updated to include professional athletes. Representatives...
By john a. powell NNPA Guest Columnist Thousands recently took to the streets in protest and outrage following a Ferguson grand jury’s decision not to...
JILL COLVIN, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday she’s proud to have been part of an administration that “banned illegal renditions...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “…a country’s conscience sometimes has to be triggered by some inconvenience, because I think a lot of people...
WASHINGTON (The Huffington Post) — If there’s one thing from 2014 that will define President Barack Obama’s legacy after he’s left the White House, it’s...
JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With little fanfare to mark a rare bipartisan achievement, President Barack Obama on Tuesday signed a massive, $1.1 trillion...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist From Christmas carols to decorations that celebrate the season, the holidays mark the time of year when families and loved...
SADIE GURMAN, Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The discovery that a Cleveland officer who shot and killed a 12-year-old boy last month had washed out at another...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Tennessee Williams said, “The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that is also a hypocrite.” I could...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist Over the past weekend, I had a chance to a representative of the National Alliance of African-American Athletes (NAAAA) to...
(The Root) – One of the key witnesses in Ferguson, Mo., police Officer Darren Wilson’s grand jury case has a history of making racist statements, as...
