By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Last week, President Barack Obama said what many people who visited healthcare.gov to browse and buy affordable...
Richard Green may be harmed by Georgia opting out of a provision of the Affordable Care Act By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) –...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – FARC, the Colombian guerrillas, freed former U.S. veteran Kevin Scott Sutay Sunday after more than four months...
By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and Stephen Ohlemacher, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Contractors who built the web portal for the Obama administration’s health insurance marketplace said Thursday...
(Reuters) – The White House sought to limit the political damage from the troubled rollout of the government’s healthcare website on Wednesday as Republicans increased the...
[The Washington Post] In the wake of the government shutdown and declining Republican popularity, Democrats are growing more optimistic about winning a majority in the House...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – After a little more than two weeks, things have finally gotten back to normal in the nation’s...
[The Washington Post] The budget confrontation that led to a partial government shutdown dealt a major blow to the GOP’s image and has exposed significant divisions...
Special to the NNPA from the Greene County Democrat More than 500 Greene County citizens and friends from Ensley and across the state attended Saturday’s ceremony...
Employees Began Returning Thursday By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – President Barack Obama signed a bill into law early Thursday morning that ended...
by CHARLES BABINGTON, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hold the champagne. Even after lawmakers complete their pending deal to avert a federal default and fully reopen...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Four months after the Supreme Court declined to invalidate affirmative action in a case brought against the...
by MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin asked a federal judge Wednesday to throw out his indictment on...
by Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Following the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001 that brought down the World Trade Center towers in...
GILLIAN FLACCUS, Associated Press MATT VOLZ, Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The government shutdown is slowing the wheels of justice in federal courts by delaying...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Despite their well-known animus for each other, Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) and Minority Leader...
ED WHITE, Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was sentenced Thursday to 28 years in prison for corruption, after a series of...
by MIKE BAKER, Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — More than half of states are now working in broad alliances to scrub voter rolls of millions of...
JENNIFER AGIESTA and NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are fed up with Washington and spreading derision around to President Barack Obama and both political...
[The Washington Post] House Republican leaders said Thursday they will offer a temporary increase in the federal debt ceiling in exchange for negotiations with President Obama...
[The Washington Post] Disapproval of congressional Republicans’ budget wrangling after a weeklong shutdown has shot up to 70 percent, with 51 percent disapproving “strongly,” according to...
by Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Stepping up efforts to combat voting laws that discriminate against Blacks, Attorney General Eric Holder announced plans...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief [SECOND OF TWO PARTS] HAVANA, Cuba (NNPA) – Jesse Jackson was ensconced in his 6th floor suite at Hotel Nacional, at...
[Washington Post] Americans are blaming congressional Republicans more than President Obama for causing Tuesday’s federal government shutdown, according to the first polls conducted since Washington came...
[Reuters] The U.S. government shutdown has divided hundreds of thousands of workers into those classified as critically important and others seen as less so, bruising egos...
