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April 26, 2013 -
(Updated 4/26/2013) President Obama said he and wife Michelle have what they believe is a foolproof way of deterring daughters Malia, 14, and Sasha, 11, from getting tattoos or engaging in other teenage rebellion.more
April 26, 2013 -
Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh stirred the pot again this week when he compared the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings to Trayvon Martin.more
April 23, 2013 -
TUPELO, Miss. (AP) — Charges were dropped Tuesday against the Mississippi man accused of sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and others, while authorities searched at another man's home in connection with the case.more
April 20, 2013 -
Maryland has been the top-rated public school system in the nation for the last five years, but the state’s public school system is also one of the most segregated in the nation, according to a new study.more
April 17, 2013 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI says the letters sent to President Barack Obama and Sen. Roger Wicker are related and are both postmarked out of Memphis, Tenn., dated April 8.more
April 17, 2013 -
(Updated 4/17/2013) OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — The FBI has identified a Mississippi man suspected of mailing letters containing poisonous ricin as 45-year-old Paul Kevin Curtis.more
April 12, 2013 -
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Lockdowns for two North Carolina college campuses were lifted Friday after separate incidents involving reports of guns.more
April 10, 2013 -
Black immigrants and others stand to lose if the United States’ system of family-based visas is changed, according to religious and immigration reform activists.more
April 09, 2013 -
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lil Wayne, Ron Howard, Scarlett Johansson and Kim Kardashian are all on the same page when it comes to criminal justice reform.more
April 09, 2013 -
(Updated 4/11/2013) In 1975 the Himalayan kingdom of Sikkim joined what very large neighbor to its south? “India!” shouted a student from Morgan State University, winning the university its second championship at the 24th Annual Honda Campus All-Star Challenge (HCASC), an academic competition challenging the wit of the best and brightest students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) around the country.more
March 31, 2013 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Has the nation lived down its history of racism and should the law become colorblind?more
March 29, 2013 -
President Obama made history again on March 26, naming veteran Secret Service agent Julia Pierson as the agency's first female director.more
March 28, 2013 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Obama pressed Congress on March 28 not to forget the heartbreak of the Newtown elementary school massacre and "get squishy" on tightened gun laws, though some lawmakers in his own Democratic Party remain a tough sell on an approaching Senate vote to expand purchasers' background checks.
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March 28, 2013 -
CHICAGO (AP) — First lady Michelle Obama is joining Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago business leaders in an effort to raise $50 million to address youth violence.more
March 22, 2013 -
Marylander Thomas Perez, an assistant U.S. attorney general, has been tapped to serve as President Obama’s next Secretary of Labor.more
March 13, 2013 -
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina was elected pope Wednesday, becoming the first pontiff from the Americas and the first from outside Europe in more than a millennium. He chose the name Francis, associating himself with the humble 13th-century Italian preacher who lived a life of poverty.more
March 13, 2013 -
SHANGHAI (NNPA) – In less than 15 years, according to projections by investment banking firm Goldman Sachs and the United States National Intelligence Council, China will overtake the United States as the world’s largest economy. And that dramatic shift has touched off a guessing game about what the dramatic shift will mean for the U.S. and the rest of the world.more
March 13, 2013 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama signed expanded protections for domestic violence victims into law Thursday, renewing a measure credited with curbing attacks against women a year and a half after it lapsed amid partisan bickering.more
March 13, 2013 -
VATICAN CITY (AP) — White smoke is billowing from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, meaning 115 cardinals in a papal conclave have elected a new leader for the world's 1.2 billion Catholics.more
March 06, 2013 -
BEIJING (NNPA) – In absolute numbers, China probably has more beautiful women than any other country in the world. But one could never tell that by looking at the squeaky-clean glass display windows in upscale stores in this capital city or in Shanghai, whose architecture has been often compared to London, Paris and Rio.more
March 04, 2013 -
SELMA, Ala. (AP) — The vice president and Black leaders commemorating a famous civil rights march on Sunday said efforts to diminish the impact of African-Americans' votes haven't stopped in the years since the 1965 Voting Rights Act added millions to Southern voter rolls.more
February 28, 2013 -
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Whatever his prospects for winning the coming mayoral election in his hometown of Clarksdale, Miss., Marco McMillian was considered by many to be a man on the rise. So word spread fast when his SUV was involved in a wreck this week, and he was nowhere to be found.more
February 27, 2013 -
BEIJING (NNPA) – When Julia Wilson visited China for the first time in 2002, no one had to tell the former Los Angeles television reporter why China was known as “the Kingdom of Bikes.”more
February 27, 2013 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court's conservative justices voiced deep skepticism Wednesday about a section of a landmark civil rights law that has helped millions of Americans exercise their right to vote.more
February 21, 2013 -
National gas prices have soared by an average of 43 cents in the past month, portending a wallet-busting summer at the fuel pump, industry officials said.more
February 20, 2013 -
BEIJING (NNPA) – When Americans think of China, it is usually a faded image frozen in time. It is an old film, shot in what could pass as the beginning of time, of cold, dour, high-stepping soldiers bouncing past a review stand in unison with a rifle resting on one shoulder and both eyes fixed on the box of dignitaries sitting to the side.more
February 16, 2013 -
WASHINGTON (NNPA) – President Obama has launched initiatives and backed legislation that have significantly helped African-Americans throughout his time in office even though there is a perception in some quarters that the nation’s first Black president hasn’t done as much for African-Americans as he has for Latinos, gays and lesbians, and other groups, according to White House adviser Valerie Jarrett.? In a meeting with six African-American journalists last Thursday, Jarrett, a senior adviser to the president, said: “If you look at the president’s record in the first four years, if you look at his major domestic policy accomplishments, they disproportionately do benefit the African-American community.”more
February 15, 2013 -
A popular Fox News commentator is among the critics blasting neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson for his tirade against President Obama’s policies at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., last week.more
February 14, 2013 -
John McNeil walked out of a Georgia jail Feb. 12, fulfilling the death-bed wish of his wife, Anita. more
February 13, 2013 -
BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. (AP) — As police scoured mountain peaks for days, using everything from bloodhounds to high-tech helicopters, the revenge-seeking ex-cop they wanted was hiding among them, holed up in a vacation cabin across the street from their command post.more
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