Andrew Njuguna and Melanie Gouby, ASSOCIATED PRESS BUJUMBURA, Burundi (AP) — Gunfire and explosions rang out Thursday as military forces backing an attempted coup...
Jon Krawczynski, ASSOCIATED PRESS (AP) — As the stakes get higher in these NBA playoffs, LeBron James only seems to get better. The best player...
(ESPN) — NFL fans, by nearly a 2-1 margin, support the league’s sanctions against New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and the team, and...
Ralph D. Russo, ASSOCIATED PRESS (AP) — Florida State? Interested. South Carolina? Not interested. Florida? Happy to be mentioned. Georgia? Well, the Bulldogs would...
David Newton, ESPN CHARLOTTE, N.C. (ESPN) — New Carolina Panthers linebacker David Mayo literally has gone from the outhouse to the penthouse. That is, if you...
Frazier Moore, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) — When Oprah Winfrey was a youngster, the mere sighting of an African-American on television was occasion to...
By Mercedes J. Howze Special to the NNPA via The New Pittsburgh Courier PITTSBURGH (NNPA) — Chris Tucker defied two really big Pittsburgh untruths on...
Tom Hays, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) — A former music producer who helped launch acts like Kenny G and Whitney Houston was sentenced Wednesday to...
Andrew Taylor, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican-controlled House panel on Wednesday approved deep spending cuts to Amtrak’s budget just hours after a...
Alicia A. Caldwell, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Two senior Secret Service agents were “more likely than not” impaired by alcohol when they drove a...
Eileen Ng and Thanyarat Doksone, ASSOCIATED PRESS LANGKAWI, Malaysia (AP) — Rohingya and Bangladeshis abandoned at sea by traffickers had nowhere to go Thursday...
Patricia Miller, SALON VATICAN (Salon.com) — News that the Vatican has officially recognized Palestinian statehood in a new treaty may have less of an impact...
Nicole Arce, TECH TIMES (Tech Times) — The U.S. is about to run out of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses this summer. And while we’re not...
Matt Krantz, USA TODAY (USA Today) — If you want to understand the health of retail – follow the money. It ends up in a...
By Kamau High Special to the NNPA News Service from The AFRO BALTIMORE (NNPA) – The Vanguard Justice Society has voiced its support for Sgt....
Anne Flaherty, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Oh, how times have changed since the days of punch card ballots and hanging chads. Come 2016 when...
Todd Richmond, ASSOCIATED PRESS MADISON, Wis. (AP) — When a white police officer killed an unarmed biracial teen in Wisconsin’s capital city, the shooting quickly...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (BBC) — Streets are deserted with markets, schools and hospitals shut in the densely populated city, reports say. The army said the lockdown...
Jamelle Bouie, SLATE (Slate) — In 1934, Homer Hoyt wrote a dissertation—“One Hundred Years of Land Values in Chicago: The Relationship of the Growth of Chicago...
Sergei F. Kovaleski and Michael Wines, THE NEW YORK TIMES BALTIMORE (The New York Times) — Less than two weeks after six police officers were...
STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. (USA Today) — The small Atlanta-area private school director who gained national attention for a racially charged comment she made during a...
(USA Today) – Consumers’ growing love affair with watching video on smartphones and tablets is at the heart of Verizon’s $4.4 billion acquisition of AOL. That’s...
(Reuters) – U.S. retail sales were flat in April as households cut back on purchases of automobiles and other big-ticket items, the latest sign the economy was...
(BBC) – South Africa’s high court has temporarily prevented the deportation of more than 300 undocumented migrants. Rights activists have criticised the arrests of more than...
(Salon) – Back in the 1890s, two newspapers, Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World and William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal, were battling it out for the...
