(Politico) – Senate Republicans rejected a measure written by Senate Democrats aimed at bridging differences in pay between men and women. The Paycheck Fairness Act fell...
JOSH LEDERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Requiring police officers to wear body cameras is one potential solution for bridging deep mistrust between law enforcement and...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In July, bystander footage of an unidentified California highway patrol officer pummeling a Black woman on...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Last week, Washington lawmakers grilled officials from the Defense Department (DOD), Homeland Security and the...
Chris Cillizza, Aaron Blake, and Sean Sullivan, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—Now is the time in an election cycle where the tectonic political plates undergirding key...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Working to combat an increasingly lucrative crime that crosses national boundaries, Justice Department officials are pressing for a new...
KEN THOMAS, Associated Press CATHERINE LUCEY, Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton left Iowa on an “excruciating” night in 2008, the beginning...
NANCY BENAC, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Six times, President Barack Obama has come before the American people to reckon with the legacy of the 9/11...
ERICA WERNER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The tea party may have learned its lesson. As Congress finishes work on a must-pass spending bill set for...
SUMMER BALLENTINE, Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers expanded the potential for teachers to bring guns to schools and for residents to openly...
ROBERT BURNS, AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — By expanding his military campaign against the Islamic State group, President Barack Obama hopes to reverse the...
JULIE PACE, AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — In a high-stakes address to the nation Wednesday night, President Barack Obama planned to outline a broad...
The Associated Press Highlights from Tuesday’s primary elections in Delaware, Massachusetts, New York, New Hampshire and Rhode Island. ___ TOP OF THE TICKET Former Massachusetts Sen....
STEVE PEOPLES, Associated Press OLD FORGE, N.Y. (AP) — Elise Stefanik is fighting to make history in the heart of the Adirondack Mountains, an expanse of...
(Politico) – December will be the lamest lame-duck session in a long time. Senate Democrats and House Republicans are privately saying that the post-election work period...
(Politico) – Congressional approval is at one its lowest points in 40 years heading into midterm elections – and that could hurt Democrats, according to a...
EMILY SCHMALL, Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis said revealing in a memoir that she terminated a pregnancy in...
(Politico) – Several Senate Republicans joined Democrats on Monday to advance a constitutional amendment that would give Congress and the states greater power to regulate campaign...
Andrew Taylor, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Summer break over and elections ahead, Congress is beginning an abbreviated September session with must-do tasks of preventing...
ANN SANNER, Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked an Ohio law that scales back early voting, ordering the state’s...
COREY WILLIAMS, Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Detroit’s chief financial officer acknowledged Thursday that officials may have to make “adjustments” to a plan aimed at reducing...
WASHINGTON (USA Today) — A federal appeals court decided Thursday to reconsider a ruling that threatened to disrupt the nation’s health insurance expansion for millions...
LARRY O’DELL, Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A jury has convicted former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen of corruption, fraud and bribery,...
TAMI ABDOLLAH, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police departments across the U.S. are using technology to try to identify problem officers before their misbehavior harms...
JULIE PACE, AP White House Correspondent NEWPORT, Wales (AP) — NATO leaders grappled Thursday with whether the alliance has a role in containing a mounting militant...
