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Stocks Rise As U.S. Jobs Data Points To Rate Hike; Crude Slips
Crude oil resumed a sharp decline and global equity markets rose on Friday after a robust U. S. jobs report drove home...
Trump’s Revised Travel Ban Dealt First Court Setback
A federal judge in Wisconsin dealt the first legal blow to President Donald Trump's revised travel ban on Friday,...
Trump Dismisses Dozens of Obama-Era Federal Prosecutors
The administration of US President Donald Trump moved to clean house at the Justice Department, demanding the...
Another Legal Challenge To Revised Trump Travel Ban
President Donald Trump's revamped travel ban faced another legal challenge Friday when the American Civil Liberties...
What Role Did Your Father Play, Mr. Yammin?
By: Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph. D. What does the Arab-looking Mr. Joseph Yammin, and his phenotypical mien is...
Vieira Impressed By Improving MLS
New York City FC manager Patrick Vieira is impressed by the steadily improving standards in Major League Soccer and...
Raw Milk Cheese Linked To Two Listeria Deaths In US
Two people have died and several more have fallen ill following an outbreak of listeria linked to recalled cheese in...
Long-Awaited Concert Music To the Ears of Saudis
Legendary Arab singer Rashed al-Majed gave his fans three encores in the Saudi capital on Thursday night. Why not? They...
‘Painter Who Hated Painting’ Dies At 84
British artist Sir Howard Hodgkin has died at the age of 84. The Turner Prize-winner was well known for saying in...
In Adirondacks, A Dream of Trumpian Economic Renewal
For better or worse, this tiny town at the foot of the Adirondack Mountains has survived the decline of US...
Ghanaians Charged To Continue the Independence Fight
Ghanaians have been charged to continue the good fight their forebears put in for Ghana's independence from British...
Tributes 20 Years After Death of The Notorious B.I.G.
The rap world paid tribute Thursday to one of its defining figures, The Notorious B. I.G., 20 years after he died in a...
Stephin Merritt Tells Life In 50 Songs, Weird Diseases and All
Facing the task of summing up his 50 years on Earth through songs, Stephin Merritt has revealed unorthodox living...
New York Immigrant Rights Activist Escapes Deportation
For years, Ravi Ragbir has been a prominent New York immigrant rights activist who has helped protect hundreds of...
French-Swiss Firm Lafarge Ready To Sell Cement For Trump’s Wall
French-Swiss group LafargeHolcim is ready to sell its cement to build US President Donald Trump's controversial border...
Contemporary Master Viola Embraces Renaissance Roots
Bill Viola, the acclaimed contemporary artist, is back in Florence, the cradle of the Renaissance masters who inspired...
For US Composer, Understanding Trump Through Optics
To Mohammed Fairouz, a leading US composer whose work seeks the universal in the present day, policy experts have it...
Africans Must Seek Economic Emancipation
Mr Lord Paul Boateng, Representative of the House of Lords, United Kingdom, has called on Africans especially Ghanaians...
Artist Ahead of Her Time In Preening Brand
Everyone knows her magnified flowers and desert bones of New Mexico. But Georgia O'Keeffe also was a pioneer in...