(ESPN) – If the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao fight ends in a deflating draw, it would be the worst-case scenario for one of Nevada’s largest sportsbooks....
(The Washington Post) – A sports star is embroiled in a high-profile domestic violence incident. The star is widely condemned — perhaps suspended, perhaps prosecuted....
LINDSEY BAHR, AP Film Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Chris Pratt left the CinemaCon crowd in stitches with his irreverent, high-energy and slightly racy comments at...
RUSSELL CONTRERAS, Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A group of American Indian actors walked off the set of an Adam Sandler movie this week over...
BRETT ZONGKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A former Politico journalist is poking a hole in the bubble that surrounds one of Washington’s biggest, celebrity-obsessed weekends...
NEW YORK (UPI) — Lip Sync Battle has been renewed for a 20-episode second season, Spike TV announced. “Lip Sync Battle is a television and viral rock star...
BRENDAN FARRINGTON, Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Marco Rubio lacks the experience to be president and Jeb Bush is a brilliant man ready for the...
(The Daily Beast) – The elderly Tulsa reserve deputy charged with manslaughter went on national television recently and dropped a bombshell. The thing is, no one noticed...
(The Daily Beast) – For 21 years, death row inmate Willie Jerome Manning has waited for a DNA test to prove his innocence. In 1994,...
(CNN) – Prosperity gospel pastor Creflo Dollar responded recently to critics of his campaign to buy a very pricey Gulfstream G650. Dollar noted in a...
TALI ARBEL, AP Business Writers MICHELLE CHAPMAN, AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — What killed Comcast’s $45 billion bid for Time Warner Cable? Regulators’ desire...
(BBC) – Portugal is often praised for its success in integrating immigrants but in the suburbs of Lisbon police are being accused of racism and brutality....
(Smithsonian) – My father, a bookish black man old enough to be my grandfather, grew up in Texas while it was still a segregated state....
(Politico) – It took a long ride through the night to get here. They’d started out in Durham, at 1 a.m., Thursday, driving six hours,...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As attorney general Loretta Lynch assumes a portfolio that includes fighting terrorism, preventing cyberattacks and dealing with police and...
Washington (CNN) – For Charles Gladden, home is a makeshift bed on a sidewalk next to D.C.’s McPherson Square Metro Station. He sleeps with his...
JULIET LINDERMAN, Associated Press CURT ANDERSON, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — No video captured what happened to Freddie Gray inside the police van where officers heaved...
JIM SALTER, Associated Press CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — Michael Brown’s parents filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the city of Ferguson on Thursday, opening a new chapter...
NEW YORK (AP) — Hello? Anyone there? Facebook unveiled a new voice-calling app for Android phones on Wednesday, the same day that its WhatsApp messaging...
(USA Today) Question: Can you explain what I need to know about ‘mobilegeddon’ for my website? Answer: It’s not hard to understand the impact that smartphones...
MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is trying to shake up the wireless phone industry with a low-priced service designed to pressure...
by Johnny Taylor, MIT, MBA Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times Over the last group of weeks we have been covering Technology in...
(CBS News) – If you’re hitting the gym every day but don’t see the numbers going down on the scale, you might be going about...
(NBC News) – Vaccine laws across the nation may be toughened, observers say, if California passes a fervently debated bill that would strip parents’ rights to...
(Irish Times) – An experimental Ebola drug cured three monkeys intentionally infected with the virus, according to a study published in Nature magazine. The development...
