By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As education, jobs, and the national and global economy go digital, people without broadband (high-speed Internet) access...
MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Technology Writer MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Google wants the wireless services that connect mobile devices to digital content to be cheaper and...
(CNBC) – Google confirmed Monday that it had acquired start-up Timeful, an app that can schedule events into your calendar to work around what you already...
(It World) – It was a little over a month ago that Bradley Horowitz took over the leadership role of Google’s social network, Google+, from...
(Newsmaine) – Researchers from University of Hull in the United Kingdom stated that the overweight diabetics can live longer than normal-thin weight people. As per...
(Business Standard) – Children are seven times more likely to sleepwalk if both their parents have a history of sleepwalking, according to a new study....
(Gulf News) – Norway ranks as the world’s best place to be a mother, well ahead of the United States which dropped to the 33rd spot...
(Bloomberg) – The U.S. trade deficit widened in March to the highest level in more than six years, fueled by a record surge in imports...
DAVID KOENIG, AP Airlines Writer U.S. airlines are earning billions, and they are collecting more in fees on checked bags and reservation changes. Whether airlines are...
(USA Today) – It may be time to redefine retirement. A new survey of American workers from the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies found that 82%...
(Business Standard) – American automobile major General Motors (GM) on Tuesday announced it had manufactured 500 million vehicles globally over the past 106 years –...
BRADLEY KLAPPER, Associated Press ANDREW HARNIK, Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Two decades after dead American soldiers were dragged through the streets of Mogadishu, John...
(Politico) – Sunday, January 30, 2011. Two hundred thousand people occupied Egypt’s Tahrir Square, defying a military curfew to demand the ouster of President Hosni...
ARON HELLER, Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — When Israel secretly airlifted waves of Ethiopian Jews in the 1980s and 1990s, saving them from war and famine...
(Telegraph) – Manny Pacquiao faces potential prosecution for perjury after it emerged that he failed to disclose a shoulder injury ahead of the ‘Fight of the Century’...
(NESN) – Doc Rivers always speaks his mind, and sometimes, it costs him dearly. Monday night wasn’t one of those times. Rivers’ Los Angeles Clippers...
(Sports World News) – The world is full of second, third and even fourth chances, but Jon Jones may not want them. According to Sporting News,...
(Billboard) – Songwriting credits for “Uptown Funk!” went to four people initially: Mark Ronson, Bruno Mars, Phillip Martin Lawrence and Jeffrey Bhasker. However, before the song was even...
SALLY HO, Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Singer Chris Brown faces another battery accusation just days after he performed at an after-party to the weekend’s...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lauryn Hill is canceling a planned performance in Tel Aviv because she wasn’t able to also schedule a concert in the nearby...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An actress who accused Los Angeles police of racial profiling when they investigated a report she was having sex with her...
ED WHITE, Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Retired surgeon Ben Carson declared his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination Monday, resting his longshot bid on his...
BEN NUCKOLS, Associated Press MICHAEL BIESECKER, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Months before Freddie Gray died of the broken neck he suffered during what Baltimore’s top...
by Mary L. Datcher Special to the NNPA from the Chicago Defender The prospect of a child developing his or her talent and potential is...
WASHINGTON (New York Times) — During a training course on defending against knife attacks, a young Salt Lake City police officer asked a question: “How close...
