(USA Today) – President Obama reminded donors Monday night that another issue could be at stake in this year’s U.S. Senate elections: Control of the...
by Juliana Norwood Special to the NNPA from Our Weekly LOS ANGELES – Throughout the country, young, energetic, and passionate African American men and women...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – President Ronald Reagan quipped: “In the 60s we waged a war on poverty, and poverty won.” Did...
by Genevieve Quinta Special to the NNPA from The Michigan Citizen The closing press conference of the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit with United States President Barack...
Nedra Pickler, ASSOCIATED PRESS EDGARTOWN, Mass. (AP) — President Barack Obama on Monday directed $10 million in emergency Pentagon spending to help France fight terrorists...
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...
