ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Top congressional negotiators raced to complete an agreement Monday on a bipartisan $1.1 trillion spending bill that would fund...
KELLY P. KISSEL, Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A federal judge said Monday that Arkansas can stop making payments in one of the nation’s...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Prosecutors have dropped disorderly conduct, trespassing and resisting arrest charges against South Carolina NAACP Lonnie Randolph the same day his trial was...
JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Invoking his own personal story, President Barack Obama made a plea for bipartisan work to combat poverty and declared,...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON – The U.S. Justice Department and the Tobacco-Free Kids Action Fund have reached an agreement with the four major...
[The Huffington Post] Howard University Interim President Wayne A. I. Frederick wants his students following you around the grocery store. He envisions HU nutrition science undergraduates...
[Raw Story] A study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine this week found that aging was accelerated at the cellular level in African-American men who reported...
KIMBERLY HEFLING, AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration on Wednesday pressed the nation’s schools to abandon what it described as overly zealous discipline...
U.S. DISTRICT COURT — The family of Ramarley Graham, the unarmed teen gunned down by police in his own home, hope that a federal civil suit...
VALDOSTA, Ga. (AP) — Each weekday, the mother and father come to the same corner outside the county courthouse and spend hours camped out with cardboard...
DON BABWIN, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Following a year when Chicago led the nation in homicides with more than 500, the city’s Police Department said...
[The Root] Now that Chicago has recorded the fewest number of murders since 1965, maybe the hyperbole that the city is the murder capital of America...
JESSICA GRESKO, Associated Press A former member of an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood watch group who was convicted in the 2010 beating of a black teenager in...
BEN NUCKOLS, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Public school students in the nation’s largest cities are improving their performance in reading and math faster than their...
ED WHITE, Associated Press DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich. (AP) — A Detroit-area man who fatally shot a drunk, unarmed woman on his porch will stand trial for...
[New York Times] WASHINGTON — This spring, a longtime staff member for President Obama, Alyssa Mastromonaco, let a friend in on a secret. Mr. Obama had assigned...
[NBC Philadelphia] Local housing rights organization Fair Share Housing Center (FSHC) says it has obtained data from the Christie Administration that shows that Latino and African-American residents applying...
DEREK KINNER, Associated Press JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida school board has decided to end a decades-long controversy and rename a high school now named...
[Salon] In case you thought Megyn Kelly was an isolated example of the ferocious, ridiculous lengths to which some people will go to maintain an imaginary...
[The Huffington Post] The man who took the picture showing President Obama posing for a selfie said Wednesday that the world was getting a very skewed interpretation of...
[NPR] More than 200 people have been killed this year in Baltimore. Most of them were black, and most of them were shot to death, despite...
By Everett L. Glenn NNPA Special Contributor LAST OF A 3-PART SERIES (As a sports agent, Attorney Everett Glenn has negotiated contracts for some...
by T. Kelly and Zenobia Jeffries Special to the NNPA from The Michigan Citizen DETROIT — Gov. Rick Snyder’s determination to have Detroit under emergency management;...
CURT ANDERSON, Associated Press MIKE SCHNEIDER, Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Prosecutors are considering whether to move forward with domestic violence charges against George Zimmerman...
