Dubai (Gulf News) – Saturated fats are one of the main building blocks of many cellular structures in the human body and should be consumed in...
(Reuters) – U.S. retail sales rebounded in July as households boosted purchases of automobiles and a range of other goods, suggesting the economy was growing solidly early in...
BARBARA ORTUTAY, AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) — NBCUniversal is investing $200 million in digital media company Vox Media, whose brands include news site Vox,...
(Forbes) – While Donald Trump dominated last week’s GOP debate, two of the GOP candidates tried to talk seriously about Social Security’s future. New Jersey Governor...
(BBC) – Guinea-Bissau’s President Jose Mario Vaz has dismissed the government following a rift with Prime Minister Domingos Pereira. The two men are said to have...
MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Boko Haram has a new commander willing to negotiate with Nigeria’s new government, Chad’s President Idriss Deby announced...
CARA ANNA, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. chief has fired the head of the peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic over the...
BRIAN MAHONEY, AP Basketball Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — LeBron James said Wednesday his health and his family will determine whether he tries for a record...
LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — For a second day Thursday, lawyers for the NFL and its players’ union met separately with a federal...
(ESPN) – Adidas has taken Houston Rockets guard James Harden away from Nike with a 13-year, $200 million offer. Harden’s agent, Rob Pelinka, negotiated the deal. Pelinka confirmed on Thursday...
(USA Today) – Alicia Keys is opening up about a problem many people have: Self-esteem. In a very candid blog post posted to her website called “A Revelation,” the Grammy-winning...
(Politico) – The presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders was supposed to put leftward pressure on Hillary Clinton. Instead, it’s Sanders who has become the left’s...
(The Huffington Post) – What do we want from the glamorous, powerful women we call divas or icons or cultural forces? We want them to want–and...
(The Washington Post) – This has become the summer of the political outsider, as a cast of interlopers upend and dominate the presidential nominating process in...
AIKEN, S.C. (AP) — The contractor who manages the Savannah River nuclear site in South Carolina must pay more than $235,000 to some female and black...
RIK STEVENS, Associated Press KEENE, New Hampshire (AP) — Fifty years after Jonathan Daniels was shot dead by an ardent segregationist in the southern state of...
JIM SUHR, Associated Press FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — By Wednesday, police outnumbered protesters in the St. Louis suburb that launched the “Black Lives Matter” movement, signaling...
SYLVIA HUI, Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Researchers at Britain’s Cambridge University have released letters showing how slaves were priced for sale during the 18th century,...
JOHN WAWROW, AP Sports Writer PITTSFORD, N.Y. (AP) — Linebacker Ikemefuna Enemkpali is a member of the Buffalo Bills after passing his physical, and will address...
By Dwight Brown NNPA Film Critic Warning: This isn’t some chump change Sundance indie movie about the rap group NWA. Nor is it a should-have-gone-straight-to-DVD afterthought...
SOPHIA TAREEN, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois has become one of the first states nationwide to establish wide-ranging law enforcement rules for body cameras, bias-free...
(NBC News) – An Ohio woman whose death in police custody is being investigated, may have been improperly medicated by authorities, newly released documents show. Ralkina...
EMILY SCHMALL FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A police officer fired after fatally shooting an unarmed black college football player during a suspected burglary at a...
(New York Times) – On Aug. 11, 1965, a California highway patrolman in the Watts section of Los Angeles pulled over an African-American man, Marquette Frye,...
by James Washington Special to the NNPA from The Dallas Weekly Let’s be real. How many people have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ? How about...