NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Voters will decide who will lead New Jersey’s largest city after its mayor left for the U.S. Senate — a law...
by James Wright Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer The Congressional Black Caucus lent its voice to the growing global outrage about the...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A controversy last week over potential funding linked to President Barack Obama’s “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative...
By Carlton Brown Special to the NNPA from The Mississippi Link PERSPECTIVE “Our Negras are happy here in Mississippi. It’s the outside agitators causing the...
MEGHAN BARR, Associated Press NEW YORK — Tucked inside New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s sweeping affordable housing proposal is an echo of an idea from...
PAULINE JELINEK, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Postal Service reported a $1.9 billion loss for the first three months of this year and pleaded...
BILL BARROW, Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Establishment Republican Thom Tillis’ victory in the Senate primary in North Carolina has spurred both sides to draw battle...
[Politico] – President Barack Obama is railing against congressional Republicans, telling a Hollywood crowd that the midterm elections are crucial because the GOP is willing “to...
OXON HILL, Md. (NY Daily News) — As her father ran for mayor last spring, Chiara de Blasio was “overpowered” by depression and addiction, and “life...
JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Harry McAlpin was standing outside the Oval Office, moments away from becoming the first black reporter to attend...
(VOA News) – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has announced two proposed regulations designed to attract and retain highly-skilled immigrants.One rule would extend employment...
(The Washington Post) – No one knows how old he is. Some say 35. Some say 36. Others think he’s 44. Twice he was believed dead, and twice he reemerged...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Teachers have always graded students. The Obama administration feels the time has come for someone to...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – After suffering a major setback last year in the Supreme Court, voting rights advocates are buoyed...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says the United States is doing what it can to help find and free nearly 300 Nigerian girls kidnapped...
[Politico] CHICAGO – Democrats tout their commitment to diversity as a major electoral advantage, but their party is facing increasing pressure to do a better job...
EILEEN SULLIVAN, Associated Press JULIE PACE, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is asking Congress to pass new privacy laws that would add more...
CARLA K. JOHNSON, AP Medical Writer Blue or red, a majority of states have exceeded their health care sign-up targets under President Barack Obama’s law...
[Washington Post] WASHINGTON — With the Republican-led filibuster of a Senate proposal to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 on Wednesday, Democrats moved swiftly to...
[The Washington Post] The botched execution in Oklahoma that caused a prisoner to die in apparent agony triggered a review by the state’s governor Wednesday but is unlikely...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is supporting the NBA’s lifetime ban against Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling. That’s according to White House press...
ALAN FRAM, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans blocked an election-year Democratic bill on Wednesday that would boost the federal minimum wage, handing a defeat...
BY CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY, Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal was joined by two of Martin Luther King Jr.’s children as he signed...
MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seemed wary Tuesday of allowing police unbridled freedom to search through cellphones of people they arrest,...
[Los Angeles Times] Last year’s Proposition 8 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court changed the lives of many same-sex couples and their families in California for the better. But the...
