JIM VERTUNO, Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal appeals court on Tuesday temporarily reinstated Texas’ tough voter ID law, which the U.S. Justice Department...
JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 100 black candidates will be on the ballot in statewide and congressional races next month, a...
MITCH WEISS, Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The former mayor of North Carolina’s largest city on Tuesday was sentenced to almost four years in prison...
(Politico) – Deep down, Republicans who know health care know the truth: Obamacare isn’t about to be repealed. But you won’t hear that in this election...
DONNA CASSATA, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats’ high hopes of mitigating House losses in a rough election year have been dashed by reality. The question...
by Tony Best Special to the NNPA from the New York Carib News At least 70,000 immigrants have been deported to the Caribbean from the...
Ashley Killough, CNN FERGUSON, Mo. (CNN)—After meeting with NAACP leaders in Ferguson, Missouri, Sen. Rand Paul told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that the Republicans Party’s biggest...
Jeff Karoub and Catherine Lucey, ASSOCIATED PRESS DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Democratic candidates in Iowa and Michigan for hotly-contested open U.S. Senate seats got...
ERICA WERNER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two years after a prostitution scandal rocked the Secret Service, a Republican congressman renewed allegations Thursday about possible involvement...
CHARLES BABINGTON, Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The last of the Deep South’s statewide elected Democrats are hoping their seniority and famous family names...
JONATHAN J. COOPER, Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber is considered the front-runner in next month’s election, but his fiancee’s stunning admission...
JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is targeting his midterm election economic message to young people born after 1980, a cohort that...
ALAN FRAM, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — States that toughened their voter identification laws saw steeper drops in election turnout than those that did not, with...
(The Washington Post) – As nearly two dozen Secret Service agents and members of the military were punished or fired following a 2012 prostitution scandal in...
(Los Angeles Times) – Former Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates was first to land a punch. Then former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton weighed...
LARRY O’DELL, Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia legislators packed too many black voters into one congressional district in order to make adjacent districts safer...
JOSH LEDERMAN, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Less than a month away from the midterm elections, President Barack Obama’s campaign schedule is getting off to...
JOSH LEDERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden’s supporters often brush off his slips of the tongue as byproducts of the speak-your-mind politics...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has rejected a request to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt in a document dispute tied to a...
Ben Goad, THEHILL.COM WASHINGTON (The Hill)—The U.S. Supreme Court will dive back into questions involving the limits of executive branch power, religious freedom and scope of...
Thomas Beaumont, ASSOCIATED PRESS OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — President Barack Obama gave Republicans a gift of sorts by confirming their midterm election narrative that...
NICHOLAS RICCARDI, Associated Press DENVER (AP) — When U.S. Sen. Mark Udall aired the first television ad of his re-election campaign in April, the spot did...
(Politico) – A House committee is asking a federal judge to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of court for failing to comply with...
(Media Matters) – Politico Magazine published a piece by Ron Kessler, a discredited conservative journalist with a history of pushing conspiracy theories, which suggested that President Obama...
MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans like to talk about food, and they certainly like to eat. But they don’t normally think about...
