Madonna heads home after Malawi visit
By RAPHAEL TENTHANI Madonna left Malawi on Monday after a visit that included meetings with the president and the biological father of one of her adopted children. Sarah Ezzy, director…
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US businessman Mike Zaltsman jailed in Russia over broken window
By JAMES ELLINGWORTH and NATALIYA VASILYEVA Last year, he tried to bring NFL superstar Tim Tebow to Moscow to play for his American football team on a $1 million-per-game contract.…
Metropolitan Met Museum gets major gift of African-American art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has received a major gift of works by contemporary African-American artists from the South. The museum says the donation includes 20 works by female quilters…
Retired Philadelphia Police Captain Ray Lewis Talks about The Corrupt System.
Retired Philadelphia police captain Ray Lewis tells us why he’s out in solidarity with protesters against a corrupt system. Post by AJ+.
Grand jury won’t indict Darren Wilson Ferguson cop in shooting
By JIM SALTER and DAVID A. LIEB A grand jury has decided not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the death of Michael Brown, the unarmed, black 18-year-old…
St. Louis awaits grand jury decision on Ferguson
By JIM SALTER and DAVID A. LIEB A grand jury has reached a decision about whether to indict a Ferguson police officer in the shooting death of Michael Brown. In…
GOP hopefuls avoid specifics in response to Obama
By DAVID ESPO The rhetoric is barbed, but Republican presidential hopefuls generally fell in line behind the voices of restraint in the wake of President Barack Obama’s order blocking deportation…
Police shooting in housing project ruled homicide
By VERENA DOBNIK Prosecutors should charge a police officer who fatally shot an unarmed man in a dark public housing stairwell, elected officials said Monday after the medical examiner announced…