(BBC) – A paralyzed man has been able to walk again after a pioneering therapy that involved transplanting cells from his nasal cavity into his...
(Business Week) – Persistent violence in northeast Nigeria is undermining the government’s claims to have brokered a cease-fire with Islamist militant group Boko Haram. A lack...
(The Independent) – Singapore has topped Lonely Planet’s Best in Travel 2015 list this year, followed by Namibia and Lithuania. With its unique style of cuisine and culture,...
REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft has given its new CEO Satya Nadella a pay package worth $84.3 million, most of it in the form of...
HILLEL ITALIE, AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon.com and Hachette Book Group remain in a months-long standoff, but the online retailer has reached a...
RONALD BLUM, AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A six-pack won’t be enough for Madison Bumgarner if the San Francisco Giants win the World...
MAE ANDERSON, AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Cord cutters rejoiced last week after HBO and CBS announced plans to sell stand-alone streaming services, a...
JOSH LEDERMAN, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A lesson from President Barack Obama’s brief trip home, straight out of Shakespeare: What’s past is prologue. While his...
JEFF KAROUB, Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — United Nations human rights experts described Detroit’s mass water shut-offs as “a man-made perfect storm” Monday and called on...
By Daniel White Special to NNPA from Howard University News Service WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In the sixth grade, Allyson Carpenter, then-10 and the youngest student...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist The Environmental Protection Agency was once a small operation working out of the Department of Interior. President Richard Nixon elevated...
CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press GERALD IMRAY, Associated Press PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Oscar Pistorius was taken away in a police van with barred windows Tuesday...
DALLAS (CBS News) — About 120 people are now being monitored for possible infection with Ebola because they may have had contact with one of the three people in...
(The Washington Post) – The World Health Organization has declared Nigeria Ebola-free — after more than six weeks without a new case of the disease...
by Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 would likely save taxpayers $39 billion in spending on...
by Kenneth D. Miller Special to the NNPA from the LA Watts Times It’s been almost 50 years since Charles and Tony King became the...
By Dwight Brown NNPA Film Critic “Oh Lord. Take me now. Don’t mess with me!” pleads Vincent (Bill Murray), a disheveled, directionless drunk. The guy could...
(People) – Saturday Night Live just added a new face to the cast of its 40th season. Leslie Jones is the latest lady to join the show...
DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Conservatives and liberals not only have different political views, they diverge sharply on what news sources they...
(Politico) – Valerie Jarrett, senior adviser to President Barack Obama, had surgery in Chicago last week for a spinal condition and will return to Washington on...
The passion, emerging power of Black youth fuel demands for justice by Richard B. Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call ST. LOUIS,...
by Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The shooting death of Michael Brown, an unarmed Black teenager in Ferguson, Mo., and the...
Tom Coyne and Michael Tarm, ASSOCIATED PRESS GARY, Ind. (AP) — Police investigating the slayings of seven northwestern Indiana women whose bodies were found over the weekend...
