Posts in category National & World

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 …

At the 2006 Super Bowl Tailgate Party in Miami, former NFL Executive Guy Troupe saw a line of people wrapped around the stadium. He couldn’t …

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 …

  It was late 2013 when I started reporting in my now expired online news program, on the proliferation of the Chikungunya virus in the …

There is no quick fix for the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, and no quick fix in the water problem in America. All across America, …

In many ways, like Job in the Bible, “For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid …

NEW YORK – A rare tropical disease is spreading in parts of Latin America and the Caribbean. The mosquito-borne Zika virus usually causes a mild …

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 …