TOM MURPHY, AP Business Writer CVS drugstores that quit tobacco sales last year are now getting health and beauty makeovers and a shot of ethnic diversity...
(Irish Examiner) – The quality of vehicles made by European, Korean and US companies has improved so much in recent years that Japanese manufacturers, long...
(Reuters) – Nearly 20 percent of Apple Watch buyers are not only shelling out hundreds of dollars for the timepiece but are springing for a...
MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google’s Nest Labs is releasing new versions of its surveillance-video camera and talking smoke detector as part...
SARAH EL DEEB, Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The knock on the door came just before midnight, a group of plainclothes police demanding that 29-year-old Fatma...
KELVIN CHAN, Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong lawmakers defeated the government’s Beijing-backed election plan Thursday, vindicating pro-democracy activists who flooded the streets last...
MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN, Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Cuba says it’s expanding Internet access by adding Wi-Fi capacity to dozens of state-run Internet centers and more than...
CLEVELAND (USA Today) – The room inside this downtown steakhouse was nearly empty. The revelry had come to an end. Not long before, the Golden State...
JOE KAY, AP Sports Writer CINCINNATI (AP) — Mocking t-shirts are available online. Deprecating jokes are making the rounds. Social media is saturated with derogatory lines...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (ESPN) – “The Blind Side” may have been a box office hit, but the player it was about has been blindsided by its effect...
(New York Times) – NBC said on Thursday that Brian Williams would stay with the network but was being removed as the evening news anchor after he made numerous...
(Huffington Post) – Everyone’s favorite Pixar classic is just a fun, loving movie about friendship, right? Wrong. Brace yourself: Screen Junkies’ “Honest Trailer” for “Toy Story” is about...
JULIE BYKOWICZ, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Jeb Bush and Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton are asking donors to write the checks to get their campaigns...
UNITED NATIONS (New York Times) — Nearly 60 million people have been driven from their homes by war and persecution, an unprecedented global exodus that has...
(Slate) – You have a choice: You can have brutal, abusive policing. Or you can have no policing at all. That’s the implied message from...
(The Post and Courier) – The young white man arrested Thursday in the shooting deaths at a historic black Charleston church lived near the swamps of...
(BBC) – Chad’s military says it has carried out airstrikes in neighbouring Nigeria on suspected positions of militant Islamist group Boko Haram. The strikes were in...
ANTONIO GONZALEZ, AP Basketball Writer OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Stephen Curry came off the plane, lifted the Larry O’Brien Trophy as he walked down the mobile...
(I4U.com) – Chris Brown has finally learned the age old lesson: fortune only brings more woes especially if you’re not smart. During a concert in El...
(Politico) – Labor won big on trade last week, but Democrats are still seething over the scorched-earth tactics that unions employed en route to their dramatic,...
(Politico) – The U.S. Census Bureau is experimenting with eliminating the word “race” altogether in its 2020 survey, according to a report from the Pew Research...
JEFFREY COLLINS, Associated Press RUSS BYNUM, Associated Press CHARLESTON, South Carolina (AP) — A white man who joined a prayer meeting inside a historic black church...
(NBC News) – President Barack Obama on Thursday addressed the horrific South Carolina church shooting in emotional remarks that invoked America’s turbulent racial history and the heated politics...
(New York Times) – The Rev. Clementa Pinckney, the South Carolina state senator who was reportedly killed during an attack at a historic black church Wednesday...
(Politico) – “Are you African-American?” For Rachel Dolezal, the question seemed almost rhetorical. The now embattled former president of the Spokane, Washington, chapter of the...
