TOYA, Mali — The insurgents who have fled from invading French troops in Mali have been taking with them some of their most important possessions —...
Facebook has announced its latest attempt at making money, and this time it involves letting users pay to promote their friends’ posts. The feature lets users...
Video game sales increased 9 percent in January compared to the same time in 2012, in what looks to be the first optimistic sign for an...
The horsemeat DNA was discovered in cottage pies delivered to 47 schools in Lancashire. It has now been removed from kitchens and officials say...
Two big biotechnology companies, Amgen and Genentech, are lobbying state legislatures to limit competition to their biological drugs that will lose patent protection in the next...
CDC: 1 in 9 Sexually-Active Women Have Used “Morning After” Pill More and more women have been using emergency contraception pills, according to a report released...
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved the first treatment to give limited vision to people who are blind, involving a technology called the artificial...
Berkshire and 3G’s $28 billion bid for the ketchup maker could be Warren Buffett’s richest deal yet. FORTUNE — Part of the mystique, and down-home charm,...
WASHINGTON — The bipartisan heads of the federal commission that pushed a sweeping deficit reduction plan in 2011 urged President Obama and Congress to stop playing...
“The Chubby Checker” app allowed women to estimate the length of their man’s penis based on his shoe size but there’s a twist – and it...
Lil Wayne has set social media ablaze once again. But this time, he’s done more than insult the morality police who often take him to task for...
TUSCULOOSA, Ala. (AP) — The University of Alabama has barred three football players from campus after their arrest on robbery charges. The players are suspended from...
Michael Jordan, who won six NBA championships, five MVPs, 10 scoring titles and two Olympic gold medals, turns 50 on Sunday. Here are 50 reasons —...
President Obama will take a golf lesson from Tiger Woods’ old swing coach this weekend during a quick golf getaway to Florida. Butch Harmon and his...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (UPI) — General Manager Bruce Allen said the Washington Redskins are proud of their name and have no intention of changing it despite ...
Even though LeBron James finally won a championship last season and silenced many of his critics along the way, he still hasn’t won over His Airness,...
Democratic National Committee executive director Patrick Gaspard, formerly the Obama White House political director, appears to be the administration’s pick to be the next ambassador to...
Fox News announced Friday that it has hired Herman Cain, the spirited former presidential candidate and ex-pizza CEO, as a contributor for Fox News Channel and...
Yesterday, Senate Democrats released their plan to avert the sequester for the rest of the year — it contains $110 billion in deficit reduction, evenly divided...
It is going to take more than requiring universal background checks, banning military-style assault weapons and showcasing families hurt by gun violence to impact the urban...
Former Rep. Jesse L. Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) will plead guilty to conspiring with his wife to illegally spend $750,000 in campaign funds on personal expenses, including...
The day’s light was fading when the SWAT officers decided they could wait no longer for Christopher Dorner to surrender. Dorner, the fired Los Angeles cop...
The president, whose ad-libbed comment about long voting lines the night he won re-election has turned into a policy push, announced during his State of the...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – For the third year in a row, Missouri ranks as the state with the highest homicide victimization...
by Akeya Dickson Washington NNPA Correspondent The laying on of hands on one’s mother is obviously no bueno. Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant apparently didn’t...
