(Time) – Congress passed a bill to authorize the Keystone XL pipeline, setting up the first veto since 2010 and only the third in the...
KEVIN McGILL, Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A businessman who specialized in disaster recovery and bribed former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin with more than...
by Khorri Atkinson Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News Three years after NYPD officer Richard Haste chased unarmed Black teen Ramarley Graham...
(New York Times) – When Michelle Obama stepped onto the stage at the Democratic National Convention in 2012 to talk about her husband and the coming...
WASHINGTON (McClatchy) — If you’ve been remiss in cleaning out your email in-box, here’s some incentive: The federal government can read any emails that are more...
(New York Times) – Hours before Brian Williams took the anchor’s chair for the nightly newscast on Feb. 4, a sense of dread began to spread...
JESSICA GRESKO, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Basketball analyst Greg Anthony will have a soliciting prostitution charge dropped if he does 32 hours of community service...
CARA ANNA, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Sudanese army troops raped at least 221 women and girls in a Darfur village in a series of...
By Dwight Brown NNPA Film Critic Spike Lee, the old guard of Black indie filmmaking, gets his mojo back with this classy, urbane vampireish art...
One of the biggest questions in entertainment this week is “Who will replace Jon Stewart?” On Tuesday, on the last segment of his show, Jon Stewart...
(Politico) – The debate about confirming Loretta Lynch is suddenly getting partisan. Democrats are now increasingly slamming the Republicans’ handling of President Barack Obama’s nominee...
COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press TOM HAYS, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The indictment of New York Police Department Officer Peter Liang Wednesday on charges of...
(The Verge) – Samsung’s smart TVs have already come under fire this week for a poorly worded privacy policy that apparently let the devices listen in...
(Bloomberg) – Google Inc. has given fellow tech companies an ultimatum: patch your software vulnerabilities within 90 days or we’ll make them public. An elite...
(Time) – Google is awarding 2GB of extra space on Google Drive to users who complete a Security Checkup within the next week as part of a...
(CBS) – This Valentine’s Day, there’s a new worry for would-be Romeos and Juliets: the security of their online dating apps. The answer, according to a new...
LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Doctors are getting a new way to diagnose chronic fatigue syndrome — and influential government advisers say it’s...
MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Dietary advice can be confusing. Is it OK to eat meat and eggs? Is fat in or out?...
JOHN RABY, Associated Press EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — With rampant diabetes and obesity, Mississippi and West Virginia have struggled with health...
(Forbes) – The official measles count is up to 121 cases in 17 states, the CDC reported on Monday, and 85 percent of those resulted from the outbreak stemming from...
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (AP) — Target agreed to pay nearly $4 million to settle a lawsuit filed by Northern California prosecutors saying that it charged higher...
(Black Enterprise) – Many have wondered if artists get paid for performing at the Grammy’s or if they take home extra cash after winning an award. BlackEnterprise.com did...
NEW YORK (AP) — Competition for online takeout orders is heating up with Yelp’s purchase of Eat24. Yelp, a San Francisco-based business reviews website, said...
JOSEF FEDERMAN, Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Judging by Israel’s election race, the decades-long conflict with the Palestinians is not an important issue. Prime Minister Benjamin...
by Carolyn Guniss Special to the NNPA from The Miami Times The buzzwords at “A Village Dialogue: An Invitation from the Afro-Cuban Community” discussion are working...
