MATTHEW DALY, Associated Press DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press FORT BELVOIR, Va. (AP) — Tens of thousands of military veterans who have been enduring long waits for...
JULIE PACE, Associated Press DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is doing something unusual with his summer vacation on Martha’s Vineyard: He’ll...
(Politico) – House Democrats have their email fundraising down to a science: Cast Speaker John Boehner as the leading villain, use President Barack Obama’s signature (but...
STEVE PEOPLES, Associated Press PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — Republicans along New Hampshire’s seacoast once gave Rick Perry a rock star’s welcome, rallying behind the longtime Texas...
DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Take a White House state dinner and multiply it by 50. The result is the most elaborate and unusual...
(Detroit Free-Press) – The pending retirement of U.S. Rep. John Dingell means U.S. Rep. John Conyers is poised to become the dean of the U.S. House...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – President Barack Obama announced Tuesday that the federal government and private U.S. companies are investing $33...
by Roberto Alejandro Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Some 300 environmental activists yell their support for stricter pollution rules proposed by the Environmental...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON – Calling this an “extraordinary moment of opportunity,” Secretary of State John Kerry gently urged African leaders hosted by...
By Afrique I. Kilimanjaro Special to the NNPA from The Carolina Peacemaker RALEIGH, N.C. – U.S. Senator Kay Hagan has been reaching out to communities and constituents...
KEN DILANIAN, AP Intelligence Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — For months, CIA Director John Brennan stood firm in his insistence that the CIA had little to be...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is providing $11 billion to prevent a 28 percent reduction in federal highway and mass transit spending at the peak of...
PHILIP MARCELO, Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus told a national convention of black journalists on Thursday that the GOP has...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Abbigal Muleya, a young woman from Zimbabwe, traveled by bus for 18 hours just to apply...
ALAN FRAM, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A sharply divided House approved a Republican plan Wednesday to launch a campaign-season lawsuit against President Barack Obama, accusing...
RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Management failures by the Obama administration set the stage for computer woes that paralyzed the president’s new health care...
NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Pointing the finger at Republicans for congressional inaction, President Barack Obama chided lawmakers Wednesday for spending the...
KIMBERLY HEFLING, AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Iraq and Afghanistan veterans have flocked to for-profit colleges, including a troubled chain that is closing or selling...
DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer Human rights and gay rights activists on Tuesday urged President Barack Obama to ensure that the issue of anti-gay discrimination in...
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (AP) — Some employees at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee complained about a class aimed at teaching them how to...
NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — President Barack Obama feasted on barbecue Tuesday with four people who wrote him letters in a trip...
(Salon) – If there’s one thing the White House wants you to know these days, it’s that they’re really, very, quite concerned – one might even...
BRADLEY KLAPPER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — While much of the rest of the world watches the Gaza war in horror and scrambles for a cease-fire,...
Washington, DC – Scripps Howard Foundation Wire – The joint report by the Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union criticized the effect large-scale...
Matthew Daly, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — After more than six weeks of sometimes testy talks, House and Senate negotiators have agreed on a compromise...
