Shoshana Johnson was one of seven American POWs rescued alive 22 days after the 507th Maintenance Company was ambushed in An Nasiriyah, Iraq, in March of 2003. Her capture made her the first African-American female prisoner of war in U.S. history ...
Black History Month on television and in many schools is about Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Oprah Winfrey and Barack Obama. These men and women have made incredible strides for black people in this country, but let us not forget that the fight ...
Yesterday's Google super bowl ad was a cute story about a guy falling in love with a French lady told through his searches. The trouble is, they showed the autocomplete prompts and, as anyone who has ever used Google knows, the autocomplete ...
(AP) — LAS VEGAS - Casino operator MGM Mirage is hoping to settle questions raised by New Jersey regulators over its ties to a controversial Chinese casino family by putting its stake in an Atlantic City casino into a trust. MGM Mirage said Monday it is talking with its lenders and New Jersey ...
If you want a pillow and blanket in coach on American Airlines, it's going to cost you. The airline will charge $8 for a pillow and blanket in coach class for domestic trips and some international flights longer than two hours, beginning May 1. The international flights are to and from Canada ...
TOKYO -- Toyota has decided to issue a recall for the Prius in Japan, media reports said Sunday, as the company told dealers in the United States it is preparing to repair the brakes on thousands of the hybrid vehicles there. It was unclear whether Toyota planned a formal U.S. recall. The company is ...
MAGAZINE CIRCULATION DOWN: The Audit Bureau of Circulations says U.S. magazine circulation dropped 2.2 percent in the second half of 2009. Sales at newsstands and other retail sites fell 9 percent, while paid subscriptions fell 1.1 percent. PAIN FOR PUBLISHERS: The steep falloff in single-copy sales ...
Toyota plans to recall about 300,000 Prius hybrids worldwide over a brake problem and is likely to notify both the U.S. and Japanese governments Tuesday, news reports said, as a top executive will testify before U.S. lawmakers about defects that have tarnished its reputation for quality and safety ...
Only a month after its highly anticipated opening, the world's tallest building - the 2,717-foot-high, $1.5-billion Burj Khalifa in Dubai - has closed to the public. Electrical problems are partly to blame for the closure of the public observation deck on the 124th floor, but the building ...
NEW YORK— The Dow Jones industrial average closed below 10,000 for the first time in three months Monday on nagging concerns about debt loads in Europe. Shares of big banks pulled the market lower, extending a slump that has led to four straight weekly losses. Mounting deficits in weaker European ...
