PAUL NEWBERRY, AP Sports Writer Spurs and Celtics? Already eliminated. Lakers and Heat? Didn’t even make the playoffs. There’s a new look to this NBA postseason,...
LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press KEN DILANIAN, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The unprecedented and unwarranted bulk collection of the entire U.S. population’s phone records by...
CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER, AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers added 223,000 jobs in April, a solid gain that suggests that the economy may be...
ENGLEWOOD, N.J. (AP) — More than 600 people filled a church in northern New Jersey to pay final respects and celebrate the life of singer Ben...
BALTIMORE (Politico) — Republican leaders have talked obsessively about the need to appeal to more minority voters in 2016, after a disastrous showing in the...
BRETT ZONGKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With a bronze metal and glass structure taking shape on the National Mall, the Smithsonian Institution said Thursday that...
DOUG FEINBERG, AP Basketball Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — The WNBA has been thrown into the national conversation about domestic violence and sports, and now is...
KIMBERLY PIERCEALL, Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — It only took Mariah Carey placing her hand to one ear for everyone inside The Colosseum at Caesars...
DAVID DISHNEAU, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is winning support from other public officials and praise from legal experts for asking the...
(Politico) – When little else is working, try the Congressional Black Caucus. That’s a familiar pattern for the Obama administration: Backed into a corner on...
DON BABWIN, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s leaders took a step Wednesday typically reserved for nations trying to make amends for slavery or genocide, agreeing...
ST. LOUIS (USA Today) — The friend who was with Michael Brown on the day the unarmed African American teen was shot and killed by...
New AG Meets with Baltimore Leaders, Police and Activists By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent [Compiled from Pool Reports] WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Keeping her...
(Business Insider) – Floyd Mayweather Jr. stands to make well over $100 million in his fight with Manny Pacquiao. To put that in perspective, Mayweather was the highest-paid...
(BBC) – Jamie Foxx has admitted his US national anthem performance at Mayweather v Pacquiao was “a little off” and blamed his earpiece falling out....
BRIAN WITTE, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Attorney General Loretta Lynch pledged Tuesday to improve the city’s police department after meeting with the family of a...
WASHINGTON (New York Times) — Early this year, Megan E. Green, a St. Louis alderwoman, met with officials of a local police union to discuss a...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Baltimore’s curfew has been lifted, the officers have been charged, and Freddie Gray has been laid to...
(The Washington Post) – Shaun King was furious. The author and life coach turned activist has been one of the most prominent online voices in...
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(The Washington Post) – For the past decade, sculptor Preston Jackson has aimed to erect a nine-foot-tall bronze statue of comedic legend Richard Pryor in the...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – On the same day that Loretta Lynch was sworn-in as the 83rd United States Attorney General,...
(New York Times) – As he reflected on the festering wounds deepened by race and grievance that have been on painful display in America’s cities lately, President...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent BALTIMORE (NNPA) – Friday afternoon was clear and cool enough for a light jacket, although most people wore T-shirts...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief NEWS ANALYSIS WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Three extremely qualified African American women are at the forefront of making certain that...
