Sam Hananel, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Saturday that Texas can use its controversial new voter identification law for the November...
(The Washington Post) – The last time Danieldevel Davis got out of prison it was 2012 and he was 38. “I ain’t going back into...
ATLANTA (New York Times) — The most famous name in the Georgia governor’s race belongs to the challenger, State Senator Jason Carter, grandson of Jimmy Carter, the...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An American Civil Liberties Union attorney was named Wednesday to be the acting head of the Justice Department’s Civil...
The Associated Press The black vote, health care and economic issues were among the talking points that sparked clashes during debates Tuesday ahead of next month’s...
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(Politico) – Deep down, Republicans who know health care know the truth: Obamacare isn’t about to be repealed.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...