Michael D. Shear and Christine Hauser, THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON (The New York Times) — Just days after nine black parishioners were killed in a...
Doug Stanglin and Tyler Pager, USA TODAY COLUMBIA, S.C. (USA Today) — Demonstrators preparing to gather at the South Carolina Capitol on Saturday to...
(The Post & Courier) – South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said Friday morning that the gunman who killed nine people at the downtown Emanuel African Methodist...
(The Washington Post) – After Dylann Storm Roof allegedly shot up an AME church in Charleston, S.C., killing nine people, two flags were lowered more than 100 miles...
(New York Times) – I have no doubt that had the Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney lived, he would have become known — and celebrated — across our country...
(The Washington Post) – Dylann Roof, the man accused of a shooting spree that left nine people dead at a historic black church in Charleston...
JULIE BYKOWICZ, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Jeb Bush and Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton are asking donors to write the checks to get their campaigns...
UNITED NATIONS (New York Times) — Nearly 60 million people have been driven from their homes by war and persecution, an unprecedented global exodus that has...
(Politico) – Labor won big on trade last week, but Democrats are still seething over the scorched-earth tactics that unions employed en route to their dramatic,...
(Politico) – The U.S. Census Bureau is experimenting with eliminating the word “race” altogether in its 2020 survey, according to a report from the Pew Research...
JOSH BOAK, AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush says there’s “not a reason in the world” why the U.S. economy can’t...
(Los Angeles Times) – When Jeb Bush was born, his big brother didn’t exactly celebrate the news. “As a kid, George viewed him as a...
(New York Times) – A presidential debate season that begins in mid-September. A television studio backdrop without a live studio audience. And a “chess clock” model,...
TOM HAYS, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers battling over whether the grand jury record in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man should...
DAVID EGGERT, Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Expanding their battle with organized labor, Republican lawmakers in the Midwest are moving to scrap labor laws that...
CHARLES BABINGTON, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and his legislative allies scrambled Monday for ways to revive his severely wounded trade agenda, although...
REBECCA BOONE, Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — All but four states have either met or are working toward meeting federal guidelines intended to prevent prison...
STEVE PEOPLES, Associated Press BRENDAN FARRINGTON, Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Vowing to win the Republican presidential nomination on his own merits, Jeb Bush launched a...
(The Huffington Post) – When news broke that Rachel Dolezal, the Spokane NAACP chapter president and a professor of African-American Studies at Eastern Washington University,...
Neil Irwin, THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON (The New York Times) — You can be forgiven if you haven’t been particularly riveted by the series of...
Lawrence Wittner, Time Magazine via HISTORY NEWS NETWORK WASHINGTON (TIME) — The recent announcement by U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, an avowed “democratic socialist,” that...
Jim Kuhnhenn, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — The trade defeat in Congress was an ominous sign in a month of challenges that could help...
GLYNN A. HILL, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Advocates for ailing Sept. 11 first responders urged Congress on Thursday to permanently extend a law providing medical...
LISA LERER, Associated Press KEN THOMAS, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton is putting everyday Americans at the center of her first major campaign...
(BuzzFeed) – A civil rights leader in Eastern Washington state has been passing herself off as black for years, her parents told local media. When reached by...