Congress was given a chance to vent its frustrations. And BP's top executive, the target of the rage, did what he hoped to do — deflect the most probing questions and avoid any serious gaffes.
While outrage filled the air, the much-awaited grilling of BP CEO Tony Hayward by a House committee produced good theater but little new information about what caused the catastrophic oil spill that has wrought economic havoc and environmental devastation across the Gulf Coast region.

Scientific denialists have been around since, well… the beginning of recorded science. One group of denialists refused to believe that the earth was round.

Just when we thought there weren't enough leading roles for Black women in Hollywood, they create one and give it to a White woman.

(NNPA) - The charge that the oil spill in the Gulf is Obama's Katrina is bogus because there was no comparison between the swift manner in which he deployed his administration to deal with the crisis and Bush's approach to Katrina.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- Angry World Cup viewers, we, at least, hear your vuvuzela pain.

On June 27, the National Association of People with AIDS (NAPWA) and local organizations around the country, will sponsor National HIV Testing Day to promote early diagnosis and HIV testing.

Are apologies enough to calm the apparent smoldering atmosphere of racism that has intensified since the election of President Barack Obama?

(NNPA) - Members of Congress from both sides of the aisle have sent a clear message to the five Commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission regarding new internet regulations: bring the power back to the people.

(NNPA) - The situation in Somalia has been moving from bad to worse. The collapse of the US-backed dictatorship of Siad Barre in 1991 was followed by the de facto breakup of the country among various clan-oriented war lords. Repeated efforts at unification failed, generally after a noble announcement.

The Red and Black Cafe, an anarchist business in Portland, became the subject of controversy last week after a cafe worker told a uniformed police officer to leave the building. The often overtly threatening responses that followed from police supporters have revealed the self-serving absurdity of how government uniforms are viewed