KEN SWEET, AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Chinese are spending trillions of dollars on their credit and debit cards, and U.S. companies are...
MAE ANDERSON, AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) — EBay plans to grow by thinking small as it prepares for life apart from PayPal. The company...
MAGGIE MICHAEL, Associated Press LEE KEATH, Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Libya’s chaos has turned it into a lucrative magnet attracting migrants desperate to make the...
by Bert Wilkinson Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News Of all the leaders in the 15-nation Caribbean trade bloc, Kamla Persad-Bissessar...
ROBERT JABLON, Associated Press CARSON, Calif. (AP) — A local City Council on Tuesday night unanimously voted to clear the path for a proposed $1.7 billion...
FRAZIER MOORE, AP Television Writer NEW YORK (AP) — BET is storming out of its corner with its first-ever rounds of professional boxing. The network, which...
BARRY WILNER, AP Pro Football Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The NFL suspended defensive end Greg Hardy for 10 games without pay Wednesday for conduct detrimental...
HOWARD FENDRICH, AP Pro Football Writer It’s been four years since lawsuits connected to concussions were first filed against the NFL, and even now that a...
MARK KENNEDY, AP Drama Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Broadway-goers this fall will get a special treat — James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson sharing the...
(New York Daily News) – Two longstanding institutions of New York black radio have left the air. “Sunday Classics,” the last show hosted by the late...
(Daily Mirror) – Big Sean split from Ariana Grande because she was immature, claims a US report. The pair announced they’d split earlier this week after eight...
(I4U.com) – The Top 5 on the American Idol platform were finally chosen by the judges which included J.Lo on a consensual basis. The Top 5...
NANCY BENAC, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — This is name-dropping season for the 2016 presidential hopefuls. They’re salting their speeches, interviews and tweets with mentions of...
(Politico) – The Koch brothers’ political machine is expanding into new states and recruiting new donors as it seeks to shape the Republican Party —...
(The Washington Post) – Loretta E. Lynch’s long wait to win confirmation as U.S. attorney general ended Thursday, after the Senate narrowly approved the veteran...
Formal charges of two counts of misdemeanor battery and falsifying police report filed by State Attorney announced By Bobby R. Henry, Sr. Special to the NNPA...
STEVE REED, AP Sports Writer While Super Bowl XLIX commercials were more sensitive and less gender offensive than in past years, women and people of color...
CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Only a few kilometers (miles) separate Alexandra, a gritty Johannesburg township where South Africans attacked immigrants last week, from...
(BBC) – Nigerian ground troops have joined an offensive on the last known hideout of the Boko Haram Islamist militants, a military spokesman has told the...
TIM DAHLBERG, AP Boxing Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Floyd Mayweather Jr. refused Wednesday to back off earlier comments declaring himself a better fighter than Muhammad...
(Slate) – A federal appeals court on Wednesday overturned Barry Bonds’ obstruction of justice felony conviction related to performance enhancing drugs, undoing the only criminal...
(NBC News) – Loretta Lynch, the federal prosecutor President Barack Obama tapped as his pick to replace outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder, will finally get a...
(CNN) – As protesters decrying Freddie Gray’s death plan more rallies in Baltimore Thursday, anger is mounting over a police union’s comparison of the protest...
TULSA, Okla. (CBS News) – CBS News has learned that a 2009 investigation by the Tulsa Sheriff’s Office concluded that there were concerns over Robert...
(Salon) – Author, activist, erstwhile rapper and former Barack Obama surrogate Cornel West became the president’s First Hater (at least from the left) shortly after...
