Ben Rooney, CNN MONEY (CNN Money) — Finish that soda, junior. Dairy Queen is removing sugary drinks from its children’s menu, bowing to a request...
Lindsay Whitehurst, ASSOCIATED PRESS SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A federal appeals court has halted a new Utah law banning price-fixing for contact lenses that...
Malcolm Ritter, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) — The very poorest of the poor can be helped with a program that includes providing goats, sheep,...
Rob Price, BUSINESS INSIDER (Business Insider) — Security researchers who locate bugs and vulnerabilities in United Airlines’ software will be given free air miles, effectively...
Christopher S. Rugaber, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Like an underachieving student, the U.S. economy isn’t living up to the high hopes it began the...
Roz A. Gee, BLACK ENTERPRISE (Black Enterprise) — Toni Coleman Brown (@ToniBrown) is the CEO of the Network for Women in Business, based in Queens, New...
Paul Lienert, REUTERS DETROIT (Reuters) — Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) is recalling 637,000 vehicles in the United States as part of a massive expansion of a...
Carley Petesch, ASSOCIATED PRESS DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Members of an armed militia raped women en masse in Congo earlier this month after attacking and...
Krista Larson, ASSOCIATED PRESS DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Armed groups in Central African Republic freed more than 350 child soldiers Thursday in the largest such release...
Tom Odula and Gerard Nzohabona, ASSOCIATED PRESS BUJUMBURA, Burundi (AP) — President Pierre Nkurunziza thanked his security forces Friday for crushing a military coup that...
Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Kanupriya Kapoor, REUTERS BANGKOK/JAKARTA (Reuters) — Nearly 800 “boat people” were brought ashore in Indonesia on Friday, but other vessels crammed...
Tom Withers, ASSOCIATED PRESS CLEVELAND (AP) — LeBron James sat in his usual middle seat at the postgame podium talking about another playoff win, one...
Beth Harris, ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES (AP) — With a 19-point lead in the second half, the Los Angeles Clippers were cruising toward clinching the...
(Sports Illustrated) — Tom Brady jersey sales have surged since the Wells Report was released last week, according to data from Fanatics.com. Since the report...
Rob Golum and Joel Rosenblatt, BLOOMBERG (Bloomberg) — Pandora Media Inc. said it plans to appeal a federal court ruling that could lead to higher...
David A. Lieb, ASSOCIATED PRESS JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri House Speaker John Diehl said Thursday that he is resigning from the Legislature after...
AUSTIN (Equal Justice Initiative) — Student leaders at the University of Texas in Austin are seeking to remove from their campus a statue of Confederate...
Jim Kuhnhenn, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Barack Obama huffed that Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts senator and established liberal star, was a...
Brian Melley, ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES (AP) — The case of the vanishing inmate at the Los Angeles County jail nearly went all the way...
Tony Manfred, BUSINESS INSIDER (Business Insider) — Ever since Manny Pacquiao revealed in his postfight news conference that he fought Floyd Mayweather Jr. with what...
Ken Ritter, ASSOCIATED PRESS LAS VEGAS (AP) — B.B. King, whose scorching guitar licks and heartfelt vocals made him the idol of generations of...
Justin Wm. Moyer, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post) — Let nothing that follows detract from B.B. King’s indelible legacy — a legacy that, though...
By Dwight Brown NNPA Syndication Film Critic It seems like just yesterday—well three decades ago—when a brash Australian actor, Mel Gibson, stormed on to the...
Derek Thompson, THE ATLANTIC (The Atlantic) — This floored me: Americans in the 43 states where lotteries are legal spent $70 billion on lotto games in...
Paul Elias, ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Just the original charges were shocking: Six San Francisco police officers were accused of stealing from drug dealers. Then...
