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Conservatives Flex Trump-Era Might On US Campuses
US universities are often bastions of progressive Democrats, but Donald Trump's election has spurred a growing number...
Jerry Garcia Guitar On Auction To Back Rights Group
One of Grateful Dead legend Jerry Garcia's most famous guitars is going back on auction, where it could fetch more than...
US Moves To Ban ‘lunch Shaming’ Kids For Unpaid Meals
In some schools, children are forced to mop cafeteria floors. In others, their hot meal is taken away and thrown in the...
Coffee Attempts Comeback After Seven Years, Army Stint
Former NFL running back Glen Coffee is attempting a comeback after spending seven years away from the gridiron, the...
Rangers Release Former AL MVP Hamilton
Former American League Most Valuable Player Josh Hamilton, his bid to return to the Major Leagues stymied by a new knee...
What Is the ‘Mother of All Bombs’?
The United States has dropped a GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) bomb, otherwise known as the 'Mother of All...
Alabama Governor Brought Down By Humiliating Sex Scandal
The governor of the conservative southern US state of Alabama resigned Monday, shortly after lawmakers began...
Berlin Gives Refuge To Rosa Parks’ Detroit House
Rosa Parks fled the American South for Detroit in the 1950s at the height of her civil rights struggle. Now the house...
Millions In the Southeast Part of U.S At Risk of High Winds, Tornadoes and Large Hail
A storm barreling toward the Southeastern United States is expected to leave nearly 55 million people at risk of...
New Podcast ‘S-Town’ From ‘Serial’ Creators Tops Charts
The new radio show "S-Town," by the team behind "Serial," the most downloaded podcast in history, is leading download...
Indians Try To Follow Cubs In Ending MLB Title Curse
There's still a bit of hangover from last year's epic World Series as the 2017 Major League Baseball campaign opens...
Ghanaian Writer Yaa Gyasi Bags $1 Million For Debut Novel
Ghanaian-American novelist Yaa Gyasi is poised to make a huge splash in the literary world with her debut historical...
When Shall We Overcome?
As I do at every annual commemoration of our hard won independence from colonial subjugation, this year I waited for...
Beauty and the Beast Pulled From Cinemas In Kuwait
Beauty and the Beast has been pulled from Kuwaiti cinemas amid concerns from censors. The live-action remake of the...
Trump Hails ‘very Great’ Andrew Jackson On His 250th Birthday
Donald Trump hailed America's first populist president Wednesday, laying a wreath at the tomb of Andrew Jackson and...
Nkrumah, Ghana and Its Independence In the Words of the Greats
On the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of Ghana’s weaning itself off the breast of the wicked colonialist British,...
US States Mull Laws Allowing Religion In Science Class
Angela Garlington feels alone in the way she teaches science at a high school in Odessa, a Texas city populated by oil...
Horror Icon Michael Rooker On Serial Killing and Lifesaving
Michael Rooker could be the answer to a difficult trivia quiz question -- who is that actor whose work you know well,...
Disney Rejects Cuts To ‘Beauty and the Beast’ In Malaysia
Disney has refused to release a censored version of its film "Beauty and the Beast" in Malaysia after authorities in...