By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Before he was Jamal Lyon, the sensitive, talented gay son of drug dealer-turned-music mogul on the...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Men of color would earn $170 billion more a year, if they reached the same education...
(The Guardian) – Everyone thought Francis Oduor was dead. In fact the Kenyan international footballer had fled into the bush, walked four miles and gone into hiding after...
PAUL NEWBERRY, AP Sports Writer ATLANTA (AP) — The United States had everything on its side. History. A raucous home crowd. And, supposedly, the better team....
(USA Today) – After two decades, Tyrese Gibson has his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart. But for the R&B singer and Fast and Furious franchise star,...
(The Washington Post) – Amid the famous politicians, wealthy donors and top Democratic Party officials invited to New York last month to watch Hillary Rodham Clinton...
(New York Times) – A dashboard camera video released by Texas officials, which contains vulgar language, confirms accounts of a physical confrontation between Sandra Bland and...
BRIAN WITTE, Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A former Baltimore police officer said Wednesday that he plans to perform an Al Jolson routine in blackface...
(The Washington Post) – It was a driver’s worst nightmare. Andy Greenberg was speeding along a busy interstate in St. Louis recently when he suddenly lost...
BARBARA ORTUTAY, AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For all those who hailed the iPhone as the “Jesus Phone” in 2007, the Apple Watch’s arrival...
The Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A cautious outlook from Apple coupled with indifferent earnings from U.S. technology firms weighed on global stock markets Wednesday ahead...
(PC World) – Google is rolling out a new “Your Timeline” feature for Maps over the coming weeks that is certain to thrill some folks—and horrify others....
MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — More than 1 in 5 sexually active teen girls have used the morning-after pill — a dramatic...
LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Older women with mild memory impairment worsened about twice as fast as men, researchers reported Tuesday, part of...
MATTHEW PERRONE, AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Amgen on Tuesday received European approval for its first-of-a-kind cholesterol drug that lowers levels of the artery-clogging substance...
(USA Today) – FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said Tuesday he has circulated to his fellow FCC commissioners the agency’s proposed order approving the acquisition, which would create one...
SAN FRANCISCO (USA Today) – Julie Wainwright has long been eager to be firmly associated with something other than Pets.com, the once high-flying dot-com disaster with that sock puppet...
KEN SWEET, AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Nine million credit card customers will receive refund checks from Citigroup after U.S. regulators forced the bank...
(Fortune) – Well, that was fast: just months after it began testing an all-day breakfast menu in some markets in April, McDonald’s is eyeing October to roll out...
MATTHEW PENNINGTON, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said Tuesday a multinational African force will be in place within 10 days to take...
JASON PATINKIN, Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudanese troops committed war crimes and possibly crimes against humanity by killing and raping civilians during...
(BBC) – Votes are being counted in Burundi, where there is tension over President Pierre Nkurunziza’s decision to stand for a third consecutive term. Just under...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist “That’s what strikes me. There for the grace of God.” That was President Obama’s reaction when he became the...
ROD McGUIRK, Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian government said on Wednesday that a boat carrying dozens of Vietnamese asylum seekers intercepted close to...
DAVE CAMPBELL, AP Pro Football Writer MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Adrian Peterson and the Minnesota Vikings agreed Tuesday to restructure the final three years of his contract,...