SAM HANANEL, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — More than a dozen federal appeals court judges have violated federal conflict-of-interest laws over the past three years, throwing...
[Politico] TULSA, Okla. — Down here in the buckle of the Bible Belt, conservatives might eat one of their own. Tea party celebrities Sarah Palin,...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is encouraging many nonviolent federal prisoners to apply for early release — and expecting thousands to...
[New York Times] President Obama’s landslide victory in 2008 was supposed to herald the beginning of a new Democratic era. And yet, six years later, there...
CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY, Associated Press ELLIJAY, Ga. (AP) — Criticized by one group as the “guns everywhere” bill, Georgia took a big step Wednesday toward expanding...
[Atlanta Journal-Constitution] Ellijay – Gov. Nathan Deal signed legislation today that would vastly expand where Georgians can legally carry firearms, a proposal that has drawn heaps of...
[The Washington Post] It’s no secret that Republicans have a demographic problem when it comes to national elections. In 2012, roughly nine in every ten people...
[The Washington Post] Starring Michelle Obama and Kellie Pickler? Casting the first lady in a television cameo with the country music singer may at first sound...
by Margaret Summers Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer Washington, D.C.-area friends and supporters of the late Jackson, Miss., Mayor Chokwe Lumumba gathered on...
by James Wright Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer National Urban League President Marc Morial has joined a new gun-control advocacy organization that...
by Herb Boyd Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News Attorney Basil Alexander Paterson, one of the legendary “Gang of Four” from Harlem,...
[Media Matters] Conservative media ran dishonest headlines suggesting that the Obama administration is attempting to reduce minority births when it is actually trying to reduce teenage pregnancies....
[Sacramento Bee] Kevin Johnson on Wednesday was installed as president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, becoming the first Sacramento mayor to lead the organization in...
[Politico] Vice President Joe Biden really did get ahead of President Barack Obama on accepting gay marriage in 2012 — and the White House really wasn’t...
PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Deep-pocketed donors are turning over multimillion-dollar checks to influence November’s elections, and the sums raised by the national...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief AUSTIN, Texas (NNPA) – Former President George W. Bush said the education achievement gap – up to four years at...
by Tony Best Special to the NNPA from the New York Carib News “A crying shame and a painful truth” Those words helped to sum...
STEPHEN OHLEMACHER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — People with old Social Security debts are getting a reprieve — for now. The Social Security Administration had been...
[Detroit Free-Press] A major association representing Detroit’s police and fire retirees has agreed to support a deal with the City of Detroit in which uniformed pensioners...
STEVE PEOPLES, Associated Press MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Republicans eyeing the 2016 White House race battered President Barack Obama’s health care law and nicked each other...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Federal authorities have lodged two criminal charges against a Phoenix woman accused of throwing a shoe at Hillary Rodham Clinton while...
AMANDA LEE MYERS, Associated Press CINCINNATI (AP) — A federal judge who ordered Ohio to recognize the marriages of same-sex couples performed in other states...
[The Washington Post] President Obama made history in 2008 as the first African American president in U.S. history. But according to data in a fascinating new Pew...
JULIE PACE, Associated Press RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama praised outgoing Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius for helping...
