Nation

Anyone reading this understands the power of words.  Words allow us to share vital information, create new ideas and perhaps most strikingly, influence our thought process.  Words after all have consequences.  So when the folks at Cadbury decided to compare super model Naomi Campbell to a chocolate bar in their latest ad, what exactly were […]

NEW YORK– Gennette Cordova is a 21-year-old community college student from Seattle Washington, who has been on the cover story of the New York Post, written a statement in the New York Daily News, and has been featured on the Today Show— but who is she?

The death of Geronimo Pratt has shocked leaders in the black community who have quietly looked up to this revolutionary since his time with the original Black Panthers. As a prominent Panther leader, Pratt fell victim to what many believe was an FBI plot to destroy this political group when he was convicted of murder […]

WASHINGTON — Employers in May added the fewest jobs in eight months, and the unemployment rate inched up to 9.1 percent. The weakening job market raised concerns about an economy hampered by gas prices and the Japanese nuclear disaster. The key question is whether the meager 54,000 jobs added last month mark a temporary setback […]

NEW YORK — There’s one way Rep. Anthony Weiner could show that he didn’t send a salacious photo to a female college student from his Twitter account: Ask law enforcement to investigate.

RALEIGH, North Carolina — A federal grand jury indicted two-time presidential candidate John Edwards on Friday over $925,000 spent to keep his mistress and their baby in hiding during the peak of his 2008 campaign for the White House.

YUMA, Ariz. – A 73-year-old man’s shooting rampage in towns near the Arizona border left six people dead Thursday, including the suspect and the attorney who represented his ex-wife in their divorce. Police said Carey Hal Dyess also wounded one person in the shootings around Yuma, a city of about 91,000, before he was found […]

LOS ANGELES — Elmer “Geronimo” Pratt, a former Black Panther Party leader who spent 27 years in prison on a murder conviction that was later overturned, has died. He was 63. Pratt died at his home in a small village in Tanzania, where he had lived for at least half a decade, lawyer Stuart Hanlon, […]

After months of prompting, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas finally disclosed the money his wife made working for Liberty Central, a political organization that has openly opposed President Obama’s health care reform. Details of Virginia Thomas’ salary and other payments came Friday night as the press and most Americans prepared for the Memorial Day weekend. […]

NEW YORK-Sarah Palin’s tour bus, which said “One Nation” and “We The People” was vandalized with a sign that said “I, The Media Whore” on top of the “We The People” slogan. Palin is on a nationwide tour that many people believe is to start her 2012 Presidential run. RELATED STORIES Running Mates? Sarah Palin […]

LEGRANGE, GA- Anne Lee, a 58-year-old woman who had moved to Georgia after Hurricane Katrina was killed Wednesday after a Department of Transportation lawnmower sent a large rock flying through the windshield of a car she was a passenger in.

READING, Pa. – A woman charged with killing five newborns after hidden pregnancies — and keeping their remains in a locked closet — may seek to be found incompetent to stand trial. Michele Kalina’s public defender raised mental-health issues in court Thursday, delaying the scheduled plea and sentencing of the Reading home-health aide. Berks County […]