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With the Black History Month coming to an end in a few days and the beginning of Women’s History Month around the corner, it is the perfect time to support local black female-owned businesses. A recent article from the U.S. Census reveals that “the number of U.S. Black-owned businesses grew from 2017 to 2019 in all sectors of the...

Madam C.J. Walker was a Black entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist. She is recorded as the first Woman self-made millionaire in America.

Ponzi schemer Gina Champion-Cain received the maximum sentence for fraud committed against hundreds of victims.

A federal judge on Monday sentenced a Chinese businesswoman to eight months in prison for trespassing at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club and lying to Secret Service agents. Judge Roy Altman also ordered that 33-year-old Yujing Zhang be turned over to immigration officials for deportation upon her release. Because she received nearly eight months’ credit for being jailed since...

British Prime Minister on Sunday renewed his vow to take the country out of the European Union by the Brexit deadline, in an apparent contradiction of a government pledge in court days earlier to ask for an extension if there’s no withdrawal deal. “We will be packing our bags and walking out on” Oct. 31, Boris Johnson wrote in The...

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson battled to fend off allegations of improper patronage and groping a woman as he prepared a final push Monday to fulfill his pledge to lead his country out of the European Union in just over a month — and, he hopes, move British politics beyond its fracture over Europe. Johnson sought to energize Conservative members...

A Chinese businesswoman has been convicted of trespassing at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club and lying to Secret Service agents.

A Chinese businesswoman defending herself on charges that she trespassed at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club and lied to Secret Service agents gave one of the shortest opening statements in legal history Monday, proclaiming her innocence and appreciation for the country that may put her prison. After a federal prosecutor gave a 20-minute opening statement laying out Yujing Zhang’s alleged...

A 32-year-old woman with two Chinese passports has been charged by the Secret Service for making false statements and entering restricted ground after she illegally gained access to President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.

Life after skiing is already taking shape for Lindsey Vonn and she has not even competed in her last race.

Logan Paul is back in the headlines a year after the controversial YouTube star came under fire for posting footage of what appeared to be a dead body after an apparent suicide in Japan’s Aokigahara forest. This time, Paul sparked backlash after revealing a bizarre resolution for March.

Court documents released Monday detail the brutal killing of insurance executive Melissa Millan along a jogging path in Simsbury in 2014.

A Long Island man is accused of stalking two women and engaging in hundreds of inappropriate and sexual conversations with them, police said.

A private equity firm emerged Tuesday as the winning bidder for the Weinstein Co., the studio forced into bankruptcy by the sexual misconduct scandal that brought down Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein. The Weinstein Co. announced in a statement that no other bidder made a better offer than Dallas-based Lantern Capital, which made a “stalking-horse” bid last month to pay $310...

A man charged in the death of a radio host who authorities say was killed to keep her from exposing a drug distribution ring her doctor husband was running with an outlaw biker gang has pleaded not guilty to murder and other counts.

Seven people have been indicted in connection with the slaying of a New Jersey radio show host whose murder was allegedly arranged by her late husband to prevent her from exposing an illegal drug ring he was running with an outlaw biker gang.

A group of investors pulled out of a deal to buy the beleaguered Weinstein Co. on Tuesday after discovering tens of millions of dollars in undisclosed debt, according to people familiar with the negotiations. Businesswoman Maria Contreras-Sweet, who has been leading the group of buyers along with billionaire investor Ron Burkle, said in a statement that “disappointing information about the...

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Cathy Stepp wore a fake nose and sunglasses to try to help her daughter pass a 2011 Wisconsin driving test after she failed her initial attempt.

A New Jersey doctor accused of arranging the murder of his radio host wife to keep her from exposing a drug distribution ring he was running with an outlaw biker gang has apparently killed himself in jail, authorities say.