By Jazelle Hunt Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Politically, the nation is less a sharply divided collection of red and blue states, and more a rainbow...
Julie Pace, ASSOCIATED PRESS DALLAS (AP) — President Barack Obama, seeking to keep a humanitarian crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border from becoming a deeper political liability, pushed...
MATTHEW DALY, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A top official at the Veterans Affairs Department says he is sorry that VA employees have suffered retaliation after...
(Politico) – Just after President Barack Obama had finally soothed frustrated immigrant-rights activists by vowing to use his executive power to patch the immigration system, he...
(Politico) – Only 20 percent of today’s lawmakers have served in the military, the lowest rate since World War II and a dramatic fall from over...
KEVIN McGILL, Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison for bribery, money laundering...
(USA Today) – We know Americans don’t have much confidence in Congress or President Obama, but it turns out the Supreme Court is also slipping in the...
DONNA CASSATA, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans have called for spending up to $3.3 million this year on the special select committee tasked...
(USA Today) – Party-switching ex-congressman Artur Davis is considering a return to his native Alabama and a campaign for mayor of Montgomery. In an interview with Gannett’s...
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (CharlotteObserver.com) — North Carolina’s new voter law will be tested in court Monday, as a federal judge hears arguments in a lawsuit filed...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican who lost a primary runoff election to Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran said Friday he plans to challenge the results. Chris...
(The Washington Post) – The three female justices of the Supreme Court sharply rebuked their colleagues Thursday for siding with a Christian college in the...
WASHINGTON (New York Times) — In a decision that drew an unusually fierce dissent from the three female justices, the Supreme Court sided Thursday with religiously...
JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964,...
(The Washington Post) – President Obama’s displeasure with gridlock in Washington — and with the Republicans he blames for it — has been rising for...
(The Washington Post) – Setting clear management guidelines may be the least glamorous part of being a Cabinet secretary, but by this measure, Attorney General...
(The Washington Post) – Supreme Court experts have been looking for the right word to describe the term’s record number of agree-not-to-disagree unanimous decisions: Faux-nimity? Un-unanimous? The number of...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – One year after the United States Supreme Court gutted a key section of the Voting Rights Act...
Washington (CNN) — Some corporations have religious rights, a deeply divided Supreme Court decided Monday in ruling that certain for-profit companies cannot be required to pay for...
PORTLAND, Oregon (NNPA) – Former San Francisco mayor and Democratic powerbroker Willie Brown received the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) prestigious Legacy Award last week...
Jim Kuhnhenn and Erica Werner, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — In the face of an unyielding Congress, President Barack Obama will act on his own...
Philip Rucker, Tom Hamburger, and Alexander Becker, THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON (The Washington Post)—Over seven frenetic days, Bill Clinton addressed corporate executives in Switzerland and...
JENNIFER McDERMOTT, Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Not all politicians convicted of crimes leave politics for good. This week, ex-Providence Mayor Buddy Cianci decided to...
Ron Charles, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—This is a strange, unsatisfying story about public figures and public outrage. It starts with this provocative metaphor: Our ever-rising...
Bob Christie, ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthal broke down in tears Wednesday at the end of a news...
