Posts in category National & World

WEST PALM BEACH — Quantum Foundation, Palm Beach County’s largest health-funding foundation, is currently accepting applications from small, grassroots nonprofits to share in $750,000 as …

By GEORGE JAHN and MATTHEW LEE  The Associated Press VIENNA — After long, fractious negotiations, world powers and Iran struck a historic deal Tuesday to …

By MARYCLAIRE DALE, DAVID BAUDER Associated Press and Staff Report PHILADELPHIA — Bill Cosby testified in 2005 that he got Quaaludes with the intent of …

By JESSE J. HOLLAND CHARLESTON, S.C. – Under an outdoor tent a few blocks from Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Sharon Simmons paused while cleaning …

By KEN DILANIAN AP Intelligence Writer WASHINGTON — The CIA is failing to hire and promote enough minorities despite years of vowing to do so, …

FORT LAUDERDALE — Attempting to counter a rise in usage of a synthetic drug that is wreaking havoc in South Florida, Broward law enforcement officials …

By NICOLE WINFIELD and FRANK BAJAK QUITO, Ecuador — Latin America’s first pope returned to Spanish-speaking South America for the first time Sunday, stressing the …

By STEVE PEOPLES WASHINGTON  — Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry on Thursday urged his party to fight for the African-American vote and said black families …

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama cast a string of legal and legislative victories last week on trade, health care and gay marriage as the “gratifying” …

By Bill Morlin Southern Poverty Law Center In what may not be a coincidence, a string of nighttime fires have damaged or destroyed at least …