(HNGN) – An honor-roll Virginia student, accused of murdering his parents after they took away his iPod, pled guilty, Wednesday. He was charged as an...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is calling on all Americans to get involved with his push to reverse underachievement among young minority men by...
MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s leader vowed on Thursday to “do everything possible to bring our daughters home,” referring to the mass...
(NNPA) – After launching his Kickstarter campaign to revamp “Reading Rainbow” Wednesday, LeVar Burton hit his goal in less than 24 hours. The campaign, which is...
The vast majority of heroin users has made a complete shift in demographics, according to Bloomberg. [A research] study, published in JAMA Psychiatry, tracked data from almost...
New Orleans’s Recovery School District will close all of its remaining traditional public schools, according to the Washington Post. Education was one of the major reforms...
MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Business Writers RYAN NAKASHIMA, AP Business Writers CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — Apple is striking a new chord with a $3 billion acquisition of...
CLIFF BRUNT, AP Sports Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Russell Westbrook is picking up where Kevin Durant left off. Durant hasn’t shown the same consistent excellence...
MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Twelve years after barring execution of the mentally disabled, the Supreme Court on Tuesday prohibited states in borderline...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Six decades after Brown v. Board of Education, an old idea is being resurrected in hopes of...
TIM REYNOLDS, AP Basketball Writer MIAMI (AP) — The stat sheet from Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals told quite a story. It said Miami...
(USA Today) – Donald Sterling has agreed to transfer his ownership share of the Los Angeles Clippers to his wife Shelly, who will voluntarily move...
ABC US News | ABC International News (ABC News) – It’s here! The big wedding weekend to end all wedding weekends. Kim Kardashian will be married...
HARLEM (Politico) — For decades, they’ve battled for supremacy atop Harlem’s political order: Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel, the polished committee chairman and power broker, and the...
COREY WILLIAMS, Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — When they pull up to a gas station these days, Detroit drivers are looking beyond the price per gallon...
ERIK SCHELZIG, Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — As the rest of the nation debates the feasibility and humanity of lethal injections against a backdrop of...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has deployed 80 military personnel to Chad to help locate the nearly 300 girls kidnapped in Nigeria last month,...
(Politico) – President Barack Obama’s administration has agreed to make public edited versions of a memo one of his judicial nominees wrote finding it lawful to...
JIM LITKE, AP Sports Writer Former NFL lineman Jeremy Newberry says he often hobbled into the 49ers locker room using a walking boot and crutches, then...
RAUL DOMINGUEZ, Associated Press SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The San Antonio Spurs were planning to attack the lane whether Oklahoma City big man Serge Ibaka was...
San Francisco (Business Report) – Twitter is in early-stage discussions to acquire or partner with music-related startups, according to people with knowledge of the talks,...
by Jeffrey L. Boney Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward-Times Back in 2007, an article entitled “Police brutality cases on rise since 9/11” appeared...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In 1954, Lucinda Todd was one of 13 plaintiffs in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Democrats and civil rights advocates continue to express concerns over two of President Barack Obama’s federal...
(CNN) — Nigeria and four neighboring countries will share intelligence and border surveillance in the hunt for more than 200 Nigerian girls still held by Boko Haram,...
