(The Washington Post) – A grand jury has charged a white Portsmouth, Va., police officer with first degree murder in connection with the killing of...
MEG KINNARD, Associated Press JEFFREY COLLINS, Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The state prosecutor in charge of trying Dylann Roof in what authorities have said...
(The Atlantic) – No one will be surprised to learn that the campaign to build a national movement against gentrification is being waged out of an...
(Engagdet) – As sales of satellite navigation units slowly dry up, TomTom is making the gentle transition into a fitness and wearables company. That’s why the...
ANICK JESDANUN, AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Apple wants to be a central part of how you consume news. The iPhone maker has forged...
(TechCrunch) – This just in: AOL, itself acquired by Verizon for $4.4 billion earlier this year, has announced that it is making another purchase of its own. It...
(USA Today) – Lifting a ban on spending city money on needle exchanges for intravenous drug users prevented 120 new cases of HIV in two years...
(NBC News) – Men who took a once-a-day pill to prevent HIV infection were completely protected for months and sometimes for years, a leading health insurer...
(USA Today) – The decision to stop tobacco sales at all of its drugstores a year ago caused people to buy 95 million fewer packs of cigarettes in...
JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH, Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — The World Health Organization declared Liberia Ebola-free for a second time on Thursday after the country hardest hit...
(Bloomberg) – A decade ago, Richard Myers was the director of the Department of Genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine, where he enjoyed the...
(CBS News) – Foreclosures aren’t as big a part of the housing market as they were just after the recession, but they’re still a sizable portion of...
by Rashida Maples, Esq. Special to the NNPA from The Chicago Defender Complacency in the workforce should be avoided at all costs. Though some employees tend...
(BBC) – South Africa has the highest number of dollar millionaires in Africa, according to a new report. According to a report by AfrAsia Bank and New...
GENEVA (AP) — United Nations staff turned up a case of sexual abuse of a girl by a French soldier in Central African Republic, the U.N....
HAGATNA, Guam (USA Today) — The Guam Legislature Thursday narrowly passed a bill for the creation of a pilot program to chemically castrate convicted sex offenders. The Chemical Castration for Sex Offenders...
(Tech Times) – As the school year is about to kick off, Google said that it has added several new features to Google Docs to make...
SONIA PEREZ D., Associated Press ALBERTO ARCE, Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala’s newly sworn-in president demanded that all top government officials submit their resignations...
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Five members of the women’s soccer team at a private Christian university in Washington state were suspended for one match Wednesday after...
AutoNetwork Reports Live Talk Show – Another great show candidly discussing auto news topics with a pinch of religion and
by Stephen D. Riley Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Robert Griffin III wasn’t expected to miss the Washington NFL’s Saturday night clash against...
(Wired) – It’s always hard to take your eyes off Serena Williams. But it’ll be especially tough at this year’s U.S. Open, where the tennis champ is...
PAUL NEWBERRY, AP Sports Writer ATLANTA (AP) — The Southeastern Conference has gone two whole years without winning a national title. In this part of the...
DERRIK J. LANG, AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — An educational video game has been edited following a social media backlash over a scene depicting...
