KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica’s top politician has set Feb. 25 as the date for general elections. The vote had to come by December, but Prime …

SAN FRANCISCO – Alphabet, Google’s new parent company, topped Apple as the world’s most valuable business in after-hours trading Monday after reporting surging earnings. Alphabet …

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – A sheriff’s deputy had no legitimate reason to open fire when he shot and paralyzed an unarmed, young black man, a …

Under New Hampshire state law, communities with fewer than 100 voters can get permission to open their polls at midnight and close them as soon …

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Anti-abortion forces in the Florida Legislature are advancing a handful of bills they say are aimed at protecting the health of women, …

LOS ANGELES – In October 1995, Courtney B. Vance and Tony Goldwyn took a break from filming a TV movie in Toronto to watch news …

WASHINGTON – The United States should consider reparations to African-American descendants of slavery, establish a national human rights commission and publicly acknowledge that the trans-Atlantic …

Supporting acting awards went to Idris Elba and Alicia Vikander at the 22nd Screen Actors Guild Awards, where Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black repeated …

WASHINGTON – A survey finds minorities hold only 14 percent of state lawmakers’ seats, even though minorities make up 40 percent of the United States …

NEW YORK – A New York police officer recklessly fired his gun into a darkened stairwell, shooting a man, and then “stood there whining and …