JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is planning to focus on improving the lives of girls and women of color, after...
(ABC News) – The latest fence-jumping incident at the White House has brought not only the Secret Service into scrutiny again but the fence itself. The bottom line: Is...
ERICA WERNER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A government investigation Wednesday criticized a bizarre Secret Service assignment that pulled agents from their duty near the White...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In an effort to spark innovation at the local level to improve life outcomes for...
ERICA WERNER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two years after a prostitution scandal rocked the Secret Service, a Republican congressman renewed allegations Thursday about possible involvement...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has rejected a request to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt in a document dispute tied to a...
(Politico) – A House committee is asking a federal judge to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of court for failing to comply with...
WASHINGTON (New York Times) — Representative Elijah E. Cummings of Maryland was at the grocery store the other day when he ran into an elderly black...
(Media Matters) – Politico Magazine published a piece by Ron Kessler, a discredited conservative journalist with a history of pushing conspiracy theories, which suggested that President Obama...
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...
(BBC News) – The Secret Service has erected a second fence between the White House and a thoroughfare popular with tourists, local residents and workers,...
WASHINGTON (USA Today) — White House fence jumper Omar Gonzalez, arrested with a folding knife in his pocket, also had a car packed with more...
JOSH LEDERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Requiring police officers to wear body cameras is one potential solution for bridging deep mistrust between law enforcement and...
(Politico) – Jay Carney just left the White House podium and he’s already joined the ranks of George W. Bush, Tom Brokaw and Mike Ditka in...
DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Delivering a forceful argument on the role of the arts in education, Michelle Obama said Tuesday that it isn’t...
By Melvin P. Foote NNPA Columnist President Barack Obama has invited 47 African Heads of State to come to Washington August 5-6 a summit around U.S....
EILEEN SULLIVAN, Associated Press JULIE PACE, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is asking Congress to pass new privacy laws that would add more...
[Politico] Vice President Joe Biden really did get ahead of President Barack Obama on accepting gay marriage in 2012 — and the White House really wasn’t...
WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Michelle Obama is bringing together an impressive group of female artists for a White House concert celebrating women of soul. The...
[The Hill] The Obama administration is engaged in a “final coordinated push” to enroll blacks in ObamaCare, White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett said Friday. Jarrett said...
DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) — The costly $787 billion spending bill that President Barack Obama signed into law soon after taking office...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – With a largely uncooperative, highly-partisan Congress headed into a mid-term election, President Obama declared in his State...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Now that a 2014 has come, I have decided to pull out my trusted crystal ball and give you some...
