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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — President Barack Obama on Friday hailed a new government report showing the most jobs created in nearly three years. “We are beginning to turn the corner,” he told employees of a manufacturing plant that received government stimulus money.

WASHINGTON – He may be the world’s foremost mixed-race leader, but when it came to the official government head count, President Barack Obama gave only one answer to the question about his ethnic background: African-American.

WASHINGTON – The FBI is warning police across the country that an anti-government group’s call to remove governors from office could provoke violence.

To learn more about how you can prevent child abuse and sexual assault in your own community, click here. – NewsOne Staff TRENTON, N.J. — Police ramped up their investigation Thursday into the case of a 7-year-old girl who they say was gang-raped by a group of men while her 15-year-old stepsister watched and got […]

WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy posted its largest job gain in three years in March, while the unemployment rate remained at 9.7 percent for the third straight month.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Divers with a South Florida county sheriff’s office have pulled up an algae-covered minivan from a canal along Alligator Alley with human bones inside.

Most of us know that slavery started to end with the Emancipation Proclamation, consisting of two executive orders signed in 1862 and 1863.   Of course, we also know that the orders only applied to states that were not under Union control, so there were several states in which the slaves were not freed.   […]

WASHINGTON – A possible feud among neighborhood crews, three shootings and five fatalities have authorities in the nation’s capital trying to stop more paybacks in an area known for drugs and violence just 7 miles from the White House.

NAIROBI, Kenya — U.S. naval forces say they’ve captured five pirates after exchanging fire with them, sinking their skiff and confiscating a mother ship.

NEW ORLEANS — An HBO spokesman says David Mills, a veteran television writer who worked on “ER” and “The Wire,” has died in New Orleans.

just questioning the suicide numbers. that's all.

SEATTLE — Three Seattle police officers were justified when they used a stun gun on a pregnant mother who refused to sign a traffic ticket, a federal appeals court ruled Friday in a case that prompted an incredulous dissent.