By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief SECOND OF TWO ARTICLES WASHINGTON (NNPA) – President Obama showed a deeply personal side of him rarely seen in...
(Wired) – Remember when 3G was such a big deal that Apple named its new iPhone after what was then the new standard in mobile...
PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s largest labor federation took aim Thursday at the conservative Koch brothers in ads designed to highlight the...
MARK KENNEDY, AP Drama Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A memorial for actress and civil rights activist Ruby Dee will feature music by Alicia Keys and...
WASHINGTON (USA Today) — A federal appeals court decided Thursday to reconsider a ruling that threatened to disrupt the nation’s health insurance expansion for millions...
(Politico) – Civil rights leaders and community activists cheered when Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced on Thursday that the Justice Department would be investigating...
MARTIN CRUTSINGER, AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The richest 10 percent of Americans were the only group whose median incomes rose in the past three...
YURI KAGEYAMA, AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — The boundary between the online and physical worlds got blurry last week when Sony’s PlayStation Network was disabled...
(Upstart Magazine) – According to the new study, a lumpectomy could increase the survival rates of the breast cancer patients more than the double mastectomy....
(Business Week) – Hospitals in states that expanded Medicaid have more paying customers, bolstering the bottom lines of for-profit hospital chains, a new analysis published on...
(Los Angeles Times) – The United States climbed to third in a leading ranking of the world’s most competitive economies, rising for the second straight...
(CBC.ca) – By vowing to “degrade and destroy” the Islamic State militants, U.S. President Barack Obama has laid out a goal that will certainly face a series of...
LARRY O’DELL, Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A jury has convicted former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen of corruption, fraud and bribery,...
Joan Rivers, the raucous, acid-tongued comedian who crashed the male-dominated realm of late-night talk shows and turned Hollywood red carpets into danger zones for badly...
DETROIT (Daily Finance) — August auto sales were the highest for that month in more than a decade, thanks in part to heavy discounting by...
NEW YORK (AP) — Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg is returning to lead the financial data and news company he founded in 1981 but left to...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish toy maker Lego says revenue soared 11 percent in the first six months of 2014, mostly because of the success...
MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Imagine what the Internet would be like if most major websites had imposed controls preventing the naked...
TAMI ABDOLLAH, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police departments across the U.S. are using technology to try to identify problem officers before their misbehavior harms...
JULIE PACE, AP White House Correspondent NEWPORT, Wales (AP) — NATO leaders grappled Thursday with whether the alliance has a role in containing a mounting militant...
By Irma McClaurin Special to the NNPA from Insight News PERSPECTIVE They are not insurgents. They are not enemy combatants. They are not hostile enemy forces....
MARIA CHENG, AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — As West Africa struggles to contain the biggest ever outbreak of Ebola, some experts say an unusual but...
(BBC) – The main cities in northern Nigeria have been bombed on many occasions. In our series of letters from African journalists, Mannir Dan Ali...
