By Alan Fram Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court’s resounding rejection of a conservative attempt to gut President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul...
By Kimberly Piereceall Associated Press HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — New gun control measures are not the way to prevent mass killings such as the shooting...
By Nancy Benac and Jim Kuhnhenn (Associated Press) WASHINGTON (AP) — The chief justice who once mangled President Barack Obama’s oath of office has once...
(Politico) – When it was all but over, and the trade legislation that President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans spent many agonizing months brokering was...
(The Washington Post) – President Obama and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. got off to a rough start from the very beginning, when they...
(CNN) – WTF? That’s exactly what the political world has been asking since President Barack Obama went to a garage in Los Angeles to record...
WASHINGTON (McClatchy) — Rep. Bennie Thompson, the only Democrat and African-American in Mississippi’s six-member congressional delegation, has waited decades for a groundswell of opposition to the...
CHARLES BABINGTON, Associated Press DAVID ESPO, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a triumph of divided government, the Republican-controlled Congress passed major trade legislation Wednesday that...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama took on a heckler head-on at a gay pride month reception at the White House Wednesday, scolding the protester...
NANCY BENAC, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — His health care legacy secure, President Barack Obama cast Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling upholding Obamacare as a historic and...
MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the nationwide tax subsidies underpinning President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, rejecting a...
(Salon) – On “The O’Reilly Factor” Wednesday night, host Bill O’Reilly had what could charitably be called a tantrum — if any of his viewers...
(Politico) – Hillary Clinton is riding high in a new WSJ/NBC News poll, with a whopping 60-point margin over her nearest Democratic rival and commanding leads nationally...
The Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Tributes to the Confederacy and the Jim Crow era that have existed still abound in the Deep South and beyond...
(The Atlantic) – This afternoon, in announcing her support for removing the Confederate flag from the capitol grounds, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley asserted that...
(USA Today) – New York City will pay $6.25 million to a man wrongfully imprisoned for 24 years for a murder he didn’t commit. The settlement...
RICHMOND (The Washington Post) — Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe said Tuesday that he wants to phase out a state-sponsored license plate featuring an image of the...
(Politico) – President Barack Obama’s glad he said what he said. And he believes America proved his point on Monday: Even in the wake of...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – When President Obama returns to Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, S.C. Friday to eulogize Rev. Clementa Pinckney,...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In what is quickly and unexpectedly gaining ground as a fitting memorial to the nine African Americans...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – On the same day that Loretta Lynch was sworn-in as the 83rd attorney general of...
Caitlin Dickerson, NPR (NPR) — As a young U.S. Army soldier during World War II, Rollins Edwards knew better than to refuse an assignment....
By Christina Coleman Special to the NNPA from The Chicago Defender (NNPA) — The South Carolina judge who urged the public support the family of...
Jon Swaine, THE GUARDIAN (The Guardian) — The leader of a rightwing group that Dylann Roof allegedly credits with helping to radicalise him against...
