In today’s digital-driven age, where social media, Google and text messages create an impression of you before you even get the opportunity to do so yourself, branding has become more important than ever. Branding, a term once only relegated to how companies are perceived, has now become a part of how individuals, both entrepreneurs and […]

Scrolling through my Twitter feed last Friday morning while taking a bite out of my pumpkin muffin, I could tell that fall season was officially…

Another day, another drama on The View. This week’s latest is that View co-host Whoopi Goldberg supposedly accused ABC execs of treating her like a slave. What supposedly set her off was being cut out of the decision-making for Hot Topics. “She was out of control,” one source told the The Daily Mail. “She paraded up […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of Planned Parenthood defended the women’s health organization Tuesday before a Republican-run Congress bent on slashing its federal funding, telling lawmakers that accusations against her group fed by stealthily recorded videos are “offensive and categorically untrue.” In Planned Parenthood’s first appearance before Congress since those videos emerged this summer, Republicans […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Stunned and divided, House Republicans sought a way forward Tuesday as Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy pledged to bring them together after Speaker John Boehner’s sudden resignation. The five-term California Republican moved aggressively to lock up support to move into Congress’ top job, second in line to the presidency. He faced little serious […]

NEW YORK (AP) — First lady Michelle Obama has some advice for teenage girls: Don’t shy from being the smartest kid in the class. And never mind what the boys think. “Compete with the boys. Beat the boys,” she told about 1,000 schoolgirls and young women Tuesday at an event aimed at publicizing her “Let […]

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has chosen writer Ta-Nehisi Coates to be among the 24 recipients of the 2015 “genius” grants from the organization. “When I first got the call from the MacArthur foundation, I was ecstatic,” Coates said in a video on the foundation website. “You know, if anybody even reads what I’m […]

CHICAGO (AP) — It’s been quite the week for Bulls star Derrick Rose. Not only will have surgery on his left eye after being elbowed in the face, marking another season with an injury but in court papers related to an alleged rape, Rose says that the women involved, who he dated off and on, […]

Are they parents in extreme denial or just showing their faith through unconditional love? That is the question many have of Yvonne and Zachery Ervin,…

NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who apparently hid her pregnancy from her boyfriend, gave birth in his home and then tossed her newborn daughter out a seventh-story window to her death was arrested Tuesday on murder and manslaughter charges, police said. Police officers said they found Jennifer Berry’s infant daughter with her umbilical cord […]

A 5-year-old California girl has been barred from attending her Christian elementary school all because her parents are a lesbian couple.

BALTIMORE (AP) — The first trial in the case against six Baltimore police officers charged in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray will be held Nov. 30, and the other trials are set for early next year. Judge Barry Williams decided Tuesday that Officer William Porter, one of three officers to check on Gray […]