Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY LOS ANGELES (USA Today)—Former NFL star Darren Sharper was sentenced to nine years in prison Monday in Arizona after pleading guilty...
Renee Lewis, AL JAZEERA AMERICA (Al Jazeera America)—The most widely used herbicide in the world, glyphosate, the active ingredient in the Monsanto product Roundup, was...
VATICAN (Reuters)—Pope Francis might be preaching to the choir on climate change when he releases his environmental- and sustainability-focused encyclical later this year. A study...
John Paczkowski, BUZZFEED SAN FRANCISCO (BuzzFeed)—For years Apple has described TV as an “area of intense interest,” trashing the current TV experience as antiquated and asinine,...
Joan E. Solsman, CNET (CNET.com)—Google is rolling out a new automatic “smart lock” function that uses your mobile device’s accelerometer to determine when you set...
Sam Sanders, NPR (NPR.com)—Clippy will soon get a roommate in Microsoft heaven or hell, depending on your perspective. This week, Microsoft announced that it will...
Christopher Torchia, ASSOCIATED PRESS JOHANNESBURG (AP) — “Baby Thomas never had a chance,” begins a South African newspaper report about the toll of fetal...
John Rogers, ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dozens of bottles of low-priced California wines sold under such labels as Franzia, Mogen David and Almaden...
Joseph Zucker, BLEACHER REPORT (BleacherReport.com)—Steve Nash has called it quits after an illustrious 18-year career in the NBA in which he made stops with the Phoenix...
By Sonya Eskridge Special to the NNPA via The Chicago Defender (NNPA)—This really isn’t Raven-Symoné’s week: first she rumbled with the Beyhive, and now she’s...
Andrew Pulver, THE GUARDIAN (The Guardian)—Chris Rock is working on a follow-up to Top Five, the comedian’s acclaimed feature-film comedy that achieved excellent reviews and...
Jack Gillum, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is investigating the congressional expenses and business deals of Illinois Rep. Aaron Schock, and FBI...
Carolyn Kellogg, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES (The L.A. Times)—New Press will publish the U.S. Department of Justice’s “Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department” and bring...
Lilly Fowler, ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH FERGUSON, Mo. (The St. Louis Post-Dispatch)—Ferguson is testing the civil rights legacy of famed televangelist Billy Graham. In a region still...
Corey Williams, ASSOCIATED PRESS DETROIT (AP) — For 24 years, a stone marker has stood along U.S. 80 in Alabama’s Lowndes County, near the spot...
Bouazza ben Bouazza and Harold Heckle, ASSOCIATED PRESS TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — With bullets flying and his heart pounding, Spanish tourist Josep Lluis Cusido never...
Melissa Gray, CNN ATLANTA (CNN)—The daughter of the late singer Whitney Houston, in a medically induced coma after being found unresponsive in January, has been moved to...
Brennen Williams, HUFFINGTON POST (The Huffington Post)—As America continues to question and wrestle with the myth of a “post-racial” society, it appears Common may have...
Chuck Culpepper, THE WASHINGTON POST LOUISVILLE, Ky. (The Washington Post)— After midnight in a cramped and lighthearted locker room, Hampton University guard Breon Key looked...
Nate Scott, USA TODAY NASHVILLE, Tenn. (USA Today)—In a talk at the Impact Symposium at Vanderbilt University in Nashville on Tuesday, ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith...
Sam Cooper, YAHOO SPORTS (Yahoo! Sports)—For the first time since 2007, not one No. 12 seed knocked off a No. 5 seed on the opening...
Mike DeBonis, THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON (The Washington Post)—The Senate had two things to do this week — pass a bill cracking down on sex...
Julie Walker, THE ROOT AUSTIN, Tx. (The Root)—The founders of #BlackLivesMatter are grateful that their message has been picked up by so many people as...
Stephen Deere and Walter Moskop, THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH FERGUSON, Mo. (The St. Louis Post-Dispatch)—The cosmetic changes were easy spot. For starters, the judge wore...
Molly Hennessey-Fiske, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES PORT GIBSON, Miss. (The L.A. Times)—They found the black man’s body hanging by a bedsheet from a locust tree....
