BALTIMORE (Politico) — Republican leaders have talked obsessively about the need to appeal to more minority voters in 2016, after a disastrous showing in the...
DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent An AP News Analysis WASHINGTON (AP) — On paper and in speeches, Republicans boast that Congress’ first budget since they won...
KELLI KENNEDY, Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The Obama administration rebuffed Florida’s Gov. Rick Scott’s proposal to extend federal funds for hospitals that treat the uninsured,...
DAVID DISHNEAU, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is winning support from other public officials and praise from legal experts for asking the...
(Politico) – When little else is working, try the Congressional Black Caucus. That’s a familiar pattern for the Obama administration: Backed into a corner on...
KIMBERLY HEFLING, AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Call this the year of the test. Or, at least the year of standardized test mania. Standardized test...
DEEPTI HAJELA, Associated Press JONATHAN LEMIRE, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. House seat in deeply Democratic New York City will remain under Republican...
BRIAN WITTE, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Attorney General Loretta Lynch pledged Tuesday to improve the city’s police department after meeting with the family of a...
WASHINGTON (New York Times) — Early this year, Megan E. Green, a St. Louis alderwoman, met with officials of a local police union to discuss a...
ED WHITE, Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Retired surgeon Ben Carson declared his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination Monday, resting his longshot bid on his...
BEN NUCKOLS, Associated Press MICHAEL BIESECKER, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Months before Freddie Gray died of the broken neck he suffered during what Baltimore’s top...
by Mary L. Datcher Special to the NNPA from the Chicago Defender The prospect of a child developing his or her talent and potential is...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – On the same day that Loretta Lynch was sworn-in as the 83rd United States Attorney General,...
(New York Times) – As he reflected on the festering wounds deepened by race and grievance that have been on painful display in America’s cities lately, President...
Ken Thomas and Brian Witte, ASSOCIATED PRESS BALTIMORE (AP) — Martin O’Malley often casts Baltimore as the comeback city that overcame the ravages of drugs...
Paul Walsh, THE STAR TRIBUNE MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (The StarTribune) — Nekima Levy-Pounds, a college law professor who has been the voice and the face of the...
Ben Terris, THE WASHINGTON POST DETROIT (The Washington Post) — Ben Carson had just started a stump speech to his staff, the one about freedom,...
Greg Jaffe, THE WASHINGTON POST NEW YORK (The Washington Post) — He still has almost two years left in office, but the outlines of President...
Sophia Tareen, ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO (AP) — One of the remaining obstacles to building Barack Obama’s presidential library in his hometown of Chicago fell away when...
(Politico) – Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush on Thursday urged Americans to not lose perspective in the aftermath of the Baltimore riots, and offered his...
JOSH LEDERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has chosen his hometown of Chicago to host his future presidential library, two individuals with knowledge...
(The Washington Post) – Forget what’s in her heart. Some members of Maryland’s Jewish community are concerned about Rep. Donna F. Edwards’s intestines. “If somebody...
WASHINGTON (New York Times) — After more than a decade of wrenching national debate over the intrusiveness of government intelligence agencies, a bipartisan wave of support...
(CBS News) – Nearly half of American young adults lack confidence in the nation’s justice system or don’t trust their local police to do the...
BALTIMORE (USA Today) – Lifelong Baltimore resident Shawny Reese didn’t know Freddie “Pepper” Gray and doesn’t know for sure why he ran when he saw...
