HYDERABAD, India – Despite hopes that weekend thundershowers would help end a raging heat wave in southern India, the rain brought only limited relief as the death toll since mid-April approached 2,200. Officials said Sunday that the intense heat was likely to continue for another day...
[caption id="attachment_5780" align="alignleft" width="300"] People protest over a police shooting of a naked man named Anthony Hill in Decatur, Georgia March 11, 2015. REUTERS/Tami Chappell[/caption] U.S. police have shot and killed 385 people during the first five months of this year, a rate of more than...
NEW YORK, United States, Thursday May 28, 2015 – For as long as most of us can remember, billionaire media mogul, actress and philanthropist Oprah Winfrey has reigned supreme as the most powerful and influential African American woman of all time. Oprah was nevertheless dethroned this...
Rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight refused to leave his jail cell to attend a court hearing on robbery charges on Wednesday, saying he was ill, and a judge vowed to have him forcibly extracted if he did so again, a court spokeswoman said. The Los Angeles...
[caption id="attachment_5730" align="alignleft" width="300"] Daryll Warner and his brother Daryan Warner[/caption] WASHINGTON, May 27 2015 – The United States Justice Department Wednesday announced that the Daryll and Daryan Warner had both pleaded guilty to fraud conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy and the structuring of financial transactions. The two...