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PHOTO COURTESY OF URBANSPLATTER.COM   CHICAGO (AP) — Members of Illinois’congressional delegation on Tuesday were celebrating news that President Barack Obama will designate part of …

PHOTO COURTESY OF GEORGE JONES   When nine-year old Sherdavia Jenkins was shot and killed in 2006 while playing with a doll near her family’s …

By EVENS SANON  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — At least 20 people were killed early Tuesday in the Haitian capital after a man on top of a musical group’s …

PHOTO COURTESY OF TWITTER.COM   By JESSE J. HOLLAND WASHINGTON — Key civil rights areas around the nation would get $50 million for restoration under President Barack …

The Palm Beach County My Brother’s Keeper Initiative got off to a fantastic start recently when over 50 community leaders showed up at the inaugural …

NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams has been suspended from the program as managing editor and anchor for six months, without pay, according to an …

If money is our measure of worth, then the news that President Obama proposed an additional $2 billion in his 2016 budget to fund the …

PHOTO COURESY OF MORGANMAPS.COM  By JAN BILES The Topeka Capital-Journal TOPEKA, Kansas — Sherda Williams, the daughter of an engineer who worked for Firestone and …

Brian WilliamsBy CHIKA ODUAH  YOLA, Nigeria — When Islamic extremists snatched more than 270 girls from the Chibok boarding school in Nigeria in the dead of …

By NEDRA PICKLER and DAVID ESPO WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama asked Congress Wednesday to formally authorize military force against the Islamic State group, arguing the militants could …