Alex Altman, TIME MAGAZINE (Time.com)—A lengthy informercial on the conservative doctor may be a prelude to a presidential campaign. Pretending to run for president can...
Los Angeles (AFP) – Even her name is media friendly. Mia Love instantly became the darling of the Republican Party on Wednesday, after being elected...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist JERUSALEM — On Election Night, I usually stay awake as long as my eyelids are willing to cooperate. But this...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist The U.S. Supreme Court earlier this month let stand the state of Texas’ latest attempt to use the old...
Wesley Lowery, THE WASHINGTON POST CLEVELAND (The Washington Post)—It was an at-times tense but by all accounts probing conversation when a few hundred gathered here...
(Politico) – Deep down, Republicans who know health care know the truth: Obamacare isn’t about to be repealed.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 George E. Curry NNPA Columnist The Leadership Conference of Civil Rights (LCCR), a coalition of more than 200 human rights groups, has issued a new...
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...
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...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Amid heightened concern in the U.S. about the ferocious Ebola disease, two prominent Republican officeholders last week seized upon the...
Thomas Beaumont, ASSOCIATED PRESS OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — President Barack Obama gave Republicans a gift of sorts by confirming their midterm election narrative that...
DONNA CASSATA, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The recurring image in the latest Republican campaign ads is a lone militant walking across a barren land with...
Mary Clare Jalonick, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Cuts to the nation’s food stamp program enacted this year are only affecting four states, far from the sweeping overhaul...
(Politico) – Congressional approval is at one its lowest points in 40 years heading into midterm elections – and that could hurt Democrats, according to a...
(The Washington Post) – The House is in GOP hands, and no one thinks the November midterm elections will change that. Republicans could lose governorships...
Kenneth P. Vogel, POLITICO DALLAS (Politico) — Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Mike Pence, Rick Perry and Ben Carson all sounded like presidential candidates in weekend...
(Politico) – Democrats hear only one thing when Republicans talk about fighting President Barack Obama’s immigration agenda or GOP plans for controlling Congress: government shutdown. In...
by Zenitha Prince Special to the NNPA from The Afro-American Newspaper If Republicans have their way, the last years of Barack Obama’s presidency will be...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Three events occurred in the tight confines of Capitol Hill last week that underscore the Republican Party’s extraordinary institutional...
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...
(Salon) – If there’s one thing the White House wants you to know these days, it’s that they’re really, very, quite concerned – one might even...
(Politico) WICHITA, Kan. — Moderate Republicans have been kicked around by the tea party for years in Congress and the states. Here in Kansas, they’re fighting...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, arguably the most overrated U.S. president in history, there they go again. They, of course, are...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Those who’ve found it difficult to connect with the racial history of post-Civil War America – when Black Americans were...