DAVID EGGERT, Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Expanding their battle with organized labor, Republican lawmakers in the Midwest are moving to scrap labor laws that...
STEVE PEOPLES, Associated Press BRENDAN FARRINGTON, Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Vowing to win the Republican presidential nomination on his own merits, Jeb Bush launched a...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist It’s not too soon to ask a critical question of citizens of voting age who tend to vote...
(Bloomberg) – In Georgia’s Gwinnett County where Republicans rule, few really love Obamacare. Few want to lose it either. In parts of the county, about...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist The indictment of former House Speaker Dennis Hastert and the disclosure that he may have been sexually involved with...
Jessica Chasmar, THE WASHINGTON TIMES CHICAGO (The Washington Times) — A prominent black Chicago pastor believes the black community has been forsaken by the Democratic...
(Salon) – In 2012, long-ago Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum got attention as the only Catholic in the GOP presidential primary race. It’s sadly noteworthy: our...
(Politico) – The Republican field for 2016 is growing increasingly top-heavy, with no clear front-runner emerging in the latest nationwide Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday....
STEVE PEOPLES, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul is blaming his own party for the rise of the Islamic State group. The...
(Slate) – No one will blame you if you can’t keep track of the Republican presidential field. It’s huge. If you count declared candidates, prospectives,...
(Politico) – For the first time in the decade and a half that Gallup has been tracking Americans’ ideologies, the percentage of those identifying their...
(Politico) – A question for Jeb Bush. And this one isn’t about his brother. It’s about his father. Now that we know whether Jeb would...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist The Republican Party doesn’t have a lunatic fringe. It has a lunatic center: a core bloc of White voters and...
BALTIMORE (Politico) — Republican leaders have talked obsessively about the need to appeal to more minority voters in 2016, after a disastrous showing in the...
DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent An AP News Analysis WASHINGTON (AP) — On paper and in speeches, Republicans boast that Congress’ first budget since they won...
ED WHITE, Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Retired surgeon Ben Carson declared his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination Monday, resting his longshot bid on his...
WILL WEISSERT, Associated Press CALVIN WOODWARD, Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republicans are bringing something unique to the 2016 presidential campaign: an ability to speak...
(ABC News) – The biggest shock to many during Bruce Jenner’s Friday interview with ABC wasn’t that he was transgender — there have been rumors...
BRENDAN FARRINGTON, Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Marco Rubio lacks the experience to be president and Jeb Bush is a brilliant man ready for the...
(Politico) – The Koch brothers’ political machine is expanding into new states and recruiting new donors as it seeks to shape the Republican Party —...
STEVE PEOPLES, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Florida Sen. Marco Rubio launched a Republican presidential campaign this week with a promise to reject “the leaders and...
Washington (CNN) – Ben Carson will make a major announcement on May 4 in Detroit, his campaign tells CNN, setting the date and location for what’s...
GARY FINEOUT, Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A snapshot of where Florida Sen. Marco Rubio stands on issues likely to be debated during the Republican...
(Salon) – When liberals and Democrats suffer an especially bitter political defeat, the loss is usually followed by a round or two of finger-pointing, self-flagellation and near-existential...
STEVE PEOPLES, Associated Press TOM DAVIES, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Just a week ago, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence was considered one of the few Republican...
