Category: National News

(NNPA) — The past few weeks have seen a flurry of activity around new and exciting potential HIV-vaccine concepts, just in time for the 30-year anniversary of the discovery of the HIV virus. In Kenya, clinical trials began on two promising new designs for preventive HIV vaccines.  In South Africa, researchers launched clinical trials on […]

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) faced another courtroom assault, this time at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati a battle to strike down all or part of the federal health care reform law as unconstitutional. “The federal government has been getting more and more power,” Robert Muise, […]

It’s not just the casinos in Las Vegas that have an investment in the NBA Finals. Apparently politicians are getting into the wagering as well. The 2011 National Basketball Association Finals battle between the Dallas Mavericks and Miami Heat has sparked a friendly gamble within the Congressional Black Caucus between Reps. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas) […]

The U.S. Sentencing Commission met June 1 to consider applying revised sentencing guidelines retroactively that would reduce the sentences of some of those convicted for violating federal laws against crack cocaine. The commission is a federal agency that establishes sentencing practices for federal courts. If it approves the action, it would mean that equalized sentencing […]

President Barack Obama returned from a whirlwind trip to Europe May 29 and heading straight to Joplin, Mo., where neighborhoods were reduced to rubble during a May 22 tornado. Some 122 deaths have been confirmed and some 1,500 are still missing. At a memorial for lost loved ones on Sunday, the president lauded the heroism […]

Crime levels nationwide fell in 2010 from the year before, according to preliminary FBI statistics, which show a 2.8 percent decrease in property crimes and a 5.5 percent drop in the number of reported violent crimes. Figures in the FBI’s “Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report” revealed a decline in murder, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated […]

The leader of the NAACP North Carolina State Conference, Rev. Dr. William Barber II, was handcuffed and taken to jail last week along with six other civil rights leaders for attempting to speak in the North Carolina House against attempts by conservative tea party-backed legislators to push through draconian budget cuts that would dramatically affect […]

The Atlanta pastor facing four civil lawsuits accusing him of sexual coercion settled the cases out-of-court, his church announced May 26, but the agreement leaves plenty of questions unanswered. The lawsuits were filed in September, 2010 against Bishop Eddie Long, the leader of the 25,000 + member New Birth Missionary Baptist Church. Four plaintiffs alleged […]

TriceEdneyWire.com — The poor state of the nation’s economy, which has significantly affected the state of the job market over the past several years, is giving chills to new college graduates as thousands face the real world this spring. Fresh out of school, a new pool of people plan to enter the work force. But, is the work force […]

Tea party favorite Herman Cain launched his candidacy for president on March 21 by chiding Americans to re-read the Constitution—but only proved that he himself needs a refresher course. “We don’t need to rewrite the Constitution of the United States; we need to re-read the Constitution and enforce the Constitution,” Cain said to a cheering […]

French defenders of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and accused rapist, are drawing sharp criticism from those who say his supporters are using, sexist language to defend him. “He lifted the skirt of a servant, that’s what I mean, it’s not right, but, there, it’s my impression,” said Jean-Francois Kahn, […]

President Obama’s May 19 speech on the Middle East has garnered a mixed reaction at home and abroad, with the president’s claim that it could be time for an “Arab Spring” being met with caution. In his speech, Obama spoke of the people in the Middle East and North Africa moving toward claiming a free […]