Posts in category National & World

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 …

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO NEW YORK  — Home Depot Inc., the nation’s largest home-improvement retailer, says it has started to hire more than 80,000 seasonal workers …

By KARL RITTER STOCKHOLM — Since the money raised by governments and corporations hasn’t managed to halt the destruction of the world’s rainforests — an area …

By RALPH JENNINGS TAIPEI, Taiwan — Rescuers used a crane to hoist the fuselage of a wrecked TransAsia Airways plane from a shallow river in Taiwan’s …

By HARUNA UMAR and MICHELLE FAUL MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Three militaries, using ground troops and warplanes, fought Boko Haram on at least two fronts Wednesday with hundreds of …