LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The miserable flu season is winding down but not quite over yet, health officials said Wednesday, even as...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In a rare series of interlinked operations, six patients are getting kidney transplants from six donors at a San Francisco hospital....
MARIA CHENG, AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization will start large-scale testing of an experimental Ebola vaccine in Guinea on Saturday to...
(New York Times) – Expedia, the online booking site that owns other major players, including Hotels.com, Hotwire and, more recently, Travelocity, announced about two weeks ago that it was planning to...
(Gallup) – Small businesses and startups are the crux of economic growth in the United States. Gallup continually collects and analyzes data to understand the...
(Black Enterprise) – As a doctoral student in social work at the University of Alabama, Shani K. Collins was struggling to make the most of...
(MarketWatch) – The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, once the most feared banking regulator on Wall Street, has lost power in a behind-the-scenes reorganization...
KRISTA LARSON, Associated Press BAGA SOLA, Chad (AP) — Kellou Abakar knew she was in trouble as the contractions started not long after an Islamic extremist...
MUNEEZA NAQVI, Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s home minister said Thursday that the government would act against the British Broadcasting Corporation after it ignored...
(Reuters) – China plans to run its biggest budget deficit in 2015 since the global financial crisis, stepping up spending as Premier Li Keqiang signalled...
DAVE CAMPBELL, AP Pro Football Writer The Minnesota Vikings have made their in-person pitch to Adrian Peterson, the latest step toward resolving the star running back’s...
TIM REYNOLDS, AP Basketball Writer MIAMI (AP) — Ray Allen might return to the NBA — just not this season. The league’s all-time leading 3-point shooter...
ARNIE STAPLETON, AP Pro Football Writer ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Now that No. 18 is officially coming back for an 18th season, Peyton Manning can focus...
(Reuters) – Rapper Big Sean topped the weekly U.S. Billboard 200 album chart on Wednesday for the first time, beating out rocker Kid Rock. Big Sean’s...
By Dwight Brown NNPA Film Critic The original Best Exotic Marigold Hotel was so magical: British retirees looking for a place to nest were hoodwinked by fancy brochures...
(Star Pulse) – Nick Gordon has agreed to sit down with Dr. Phil and talk about the events that led to his girlfriend Bobbi Kristina Brown’s near-drowning...
(USA Today) – Presidential hopeful Ben Carson apologized Wednesday night for saying being gay is a choice, following a backlash over his assertion that prisons are evidence...
(Politico) – If it seems like the GOP presidential field has been unusually silent this week as scrutiny mounts over Hillary Clinton’s email practices, there’s...
STACY A. ANDERSON, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Mental health care is not just a policy and budget issue for America, but also a cultural issue,...
by Jeffrey L. Boney Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times Imagine being a young teenager and deciding to participate in a serious march...
(BBC) – Scientists have unearthed the jawbone of what they claim is one of the very first humans. The 2.8 million-year-old specimen is 400,000 years older...
(AL.com) – Members of the Tuskegee and Albany State cheerleading and dance teams were sent home following a fight during halftime of Tuesday night’s SIAC...
AARON BEARD, AP Sports Writer RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A diversity report released Wednesday on college sports has issued its lowest grade for racial and gender...
ANTHONY McCARTNEY, AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Pharrell Williams told a jury Wednesday that he was trying to evoke the feel of Marvin Gaye’s...
(Politico) – A runoff that was expected to be a slam dunk for Rahm Emanuel is turning out to be uncomfortably — even dangerously —...
