(Reuters) – University student and aspiring businesswoman Sophia Jiang has an idea for a website in China that could help students like her. She envisions...
(Reuters) – For top U.S. retailers, free delivery is now the norm. That is good news for shoppers, but not so much for investors. During...
ELIAS MESERET, Associated Press ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — South Sudan will hold general elections between May and July, said a government spokesman. The government will...
PARIS (AP) — French President Francois Hollande has used his New Year’s Eve television speech to say that the fight against racism and anti-Semitism will be...
PETE IACOBELLI, AP Sports Writer COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Top-ranked South Carolina is ready for the next — and perhaps hardest — stretch of the season...
BOSTON (CBS) — You may wonder what the 2008 Celtics, and the New Big Three Era has to do with Don Mattingly. It’s a fair...
(The Telegraph) – The first of Kanye West‘s musical collaborations with Paul McCartney has reached number three in the US charts. An ode to West’s daughter, North, Only...
(Reuters) – DISH Networks Inc said on Thursday it would make “The Interview,” the controversial Sony Pictures Entertainment film about the fictitious assassination of North...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Blues musician Melvin Jackson, who performed for years with legends B.B. King and Bobby “Blue” Bland, has died. He was 79. Jackson...
DAVID KLEPPER, Associated Press MICHAEL HILL, Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Mario Cuomo had a loud and liberal voice that inspired a generation of politicians...
KRISTEN WYATT, Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Don’t worry about a federal lawsuit. But do worry about tax rates. Those are among the many lessons Colorado...
JOSH LEDERMAN, Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — President Barack Obama has preached economic opportunity and equal access to education as cornerstones of the legacy he wants...
(New York Times) – Medical experts seeking to stem the Ebola epidemic are sharply divided over whether most patients in West Africa should, or can, be...
(CNN) — Photographer Maxine Helfman didn’t foresee the current outcry around civil rights in America back in 2012, when she began shooting portraits in the style of the...
PASADENA, Calif. (New York Post) — Jameis Winston was at midfield of college football’s most iconic stadium, once again in disbelief. Less than a year...
(USA Today) – Physician Praveen Arla is witnessing a reversal of health care fortunes: Poor, long-uninsured patients are getting Medicaid through Obamacare and finally coming...
(New York Times) – Interested in 37 newfangled apps that will save you 0.01 percent on travel for the coming year? I didn’t think so. At...
TOM ODULA, Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A Kenyan court on Friday suspended eight sections of a new law which the government says is meant...
RALPH D. RUSSO, AP College Football Writer Ohio State is looking for its first national title since 2002. Oregon is seeking its first, period. Pac-12 champion...
SOPHIA TAREEN, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Three Illinois abolitionists who were convicted for anti-slavery efforts in the 1800s were posthumously pardoned Wednesday by Gov. Pat...
CLEVELAND (AP) — The city is hoping to hand over the investigation of a 12-year-old boy’s fatal shooting by police to an outside agency, as...
JASON DEAREN, Associated Press LIVE OAK, Fla. (AP) — On a sticky hot Sunday in August 1952, a wealthy black woman named Ruby McCollum walked through...
(Time) – In a survey of 3,000 Americans, researchers at Consumer Reports report Tuesday that most are confused about how weight loss supplements make it to market,...
CARLA K. JOHNSON, AP Medical Writer The first 50-state report on the latest sign-up season under President Barack Obama’s health care law shows that more than...
NEW YORK (AP) – Health officials are celebrating some important victories in 2014, and Time magazine even named Ebola fighters the persons of the year. Nevertheless,...
