TED BRIDIS, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration set a new record again for more often than ever censoring government files or outright denying...
ANDREA RODRIGUEZ, Associated Press MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN, Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — At least five dissidents were free Thursday in what a leading human rights advocate said...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration issued guidelines Monday that restrict the ability of federal law enforcement agencies to profile on the...
Special to the NNPA via THE WASHINGTON INFORMER WASHINGTON (The Washington Informer)—U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker announced Thursday that Africa.com CEO Teresa Clarke is among...
Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Matt Apuzzo, THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON (The New York Times)—President Obama will nominate Loretta E. Lynch, the top federal prosecutor in Brooklyn,...
(Politico) – Valerie Jarrett, senior adviser to President Barack Obama, had surgery in Chicago last week for a spinal condition and will return to Washington on...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist To many people, especially Blacks, Obama’s election as president in 2008 was a dream come true. According to the American Heritage...
By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Columnist Obstruction by congressional Republicans has been a major obstacle for President Obama for four of his six years in office. ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has rejected a request to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt in a document dispute tied to a...
Thomas Beaumont, ASSOCIATED PRESS OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — President Barack Obama gave Republicans a gift of sorts by confirming their midterm election narrative that...
(Politico) – A House committee is asking a federal judge to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of court for failing to comply with...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist During the past six years, some Republicans and conservatives have described President Obama and his administration as totally incompetent. I have...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Black American leadership too often is taken for granted. Attorney General Eric Holder announced his resignation from office not...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist After being confirmed as the nation’s first African American U.S. attorney general, Eric H. Holder, Jr. wasted little time putting...
(The Washington Post) – From his first days on the job, it was clear that Attorney General Eric Holder was unbound by the racial constraints that...
Jim Kuhnhenn and Erica Werner, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — In the face of an unyielding Congress, President Barack Obama will act on his own...
(Politico) – President Barack Obama’s administration has agreed to make public edited versions of a memo one of his judicial nominees wrote finding it lawful to...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Teachers have always graded students. The Obama administration feels the time has come for someone to...
[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....
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...
EILEEN SULLIVAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has conducted warrantless searches of Americans’ communications as part of the National Security Agency’s surveillance operations...
RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — People who’ve started applying for health insurance but aren’t able to finish before the March 31 enrollment deadline will...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist Some of the responses by the Republicans and their friends to the Iran nuclear deal have been nothing short...
CARLA K. JOHNSON, AP Medical Writer CHICAGO (AP) — The Obama administration is delaying yet another aspect of the health care law, putting off until next...
[The Washington Post] The Obama administration moved Tuesday to limit the expansive role that nonprofit groups play in politics, proposing a regulation that would rein in...
