For the first time since the end of June 2014, there have been fewer than 100 new cases of Ebola reported in a week in the three ...

As if things could hardly be worse, a bomb was detonated this week within a hair of striking President Goodluck Jonathan who had just appeared ...

Income inequality, one of the issues that so troubled the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., is again front and center in today’s news. ...

The northern Nigerian town of Baga was devastated over the weekend by a surprise raid conducted by Boko Haram insurgents apparently aimed at a major military base constructed there. ...

Close to 4 million people joined a historic march in Paris, France, on Sunday, to show sympathy with the 12 fallen staffers of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical magazine ...

In a surprise turn of events, Nigeria lined up with the U.S. and Israel to defeat an effort by Palestinians to move the needle on the nearly 50 years ...

According to an analysis of U. S. Census Bureau population stats, people of color, including African-Americans, will gradually increase to become a clear majority of America's population over the next four decades. ...

Spending cuts, pushed by an international lender, “weakened health care systems in the West African region”, leaving the countries “under-funded, ...

A Missouri police officer shoots and kills a teenager just 2 miles from the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, where another young man's death months earlier ...

My son’s name is Ryan Stokes and he was only 24 years old when a Kansas City, Mo. police officer chased him and shot him four times – two times squarely in the back and two times in his side near his back. ...