(Politico) – Before the rise of the religious right in the 1980s, most politicians kept their faith to themselves. In 1945, for example, President Harry...
San Francisco, CA — Mayor Edwin M. Lee has announced that over the next two years the city will contribute and invest $7 million in programs...
Oakland is a city facing the loss of its racial, age, economic, cultural and social diversity, driven by the loss of affordable housing and a huge...
CHARLES BABINGTON, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Organized labor’s fierce opposition to President Barack Obama’s trade agenda threatens to split the political left and deal a...
SOPHIA TAREEN, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — First lady Michelle Obama drew on her hometown connections and personal struggles from college and the White House Tuesday...
MICHAEL TARM, Associated Press SARA BURNETT, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert has pleaded not guilty to charges that he violated...
Special to the NNPA from Our Weekly Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), ranking member of the Committee on Financial Services, is calling on the Department of...
By Rebecca Kaplan In recent years, we have suffered from the cyclical epidemic of responding to problems by aiming at the wrong targets. Some...
(Politico) – When former House Speaker Dennis Hastert appears in a Chicago courtroom on Tuesday to answer charges that he broke federal banking law and...
ANNE FLAHERTY, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A government plan to wipe out loans for many of the students who attended the now-disgraced for-profit Corinthian Colleges...
(Reuters) – Leaders of the Group of Seven industrial nations pledged on Monday to wipe out Ebola but offered little in terms of concrete action,...
by Roberto Alejandro Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley officially entered the presidential race May 30 with a...
Jonathan Allen, REUTERS NEW YORK (Reuters) — It has become a recurrent moment in Hillary Clinton’s speeches as she campaigns for the presidency: softening...
Scott Shane, THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON (The New York Times) — The families of an anti-Qaeda cleric and a police officer killed in an American...
Scott Shane, THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON (The New York Times) — The families of an anti-Qaeda cleric and a police officer killed in an American...
By Cornell William Brooks, President/CEO, NAACP How many more lives of unarmed Black men and women, tragically and senselessly killed by police, will our nation...
Alan Feuer, THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK (The New York Times) — Beating back his first challenge in a decade, Patrick J. Lynch, the irascible...
Larry O’Dell and Alan Suderman, ASSOCIATED PRESS RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal court on Friday concluded for the second time that Virginia’s congressional boundaries...
Jessica Chasmar, THE WASHINGTON TIMES CHICAGO (The Washington Times) — A prominent black Chicago pastor believes the black community has been forsaken by the Democratic...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The New England Patriots got $675,000 from the Army National Guard for honoring American troops, including a “True Patriot” program during a...
Congresswoman Barbara Lee has been named as one of the 25 Most Influential Women in Congress by Roll Call, a leading Capitol Hill newspaper devoted to...
KEN DILANIAN, Associated Press RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — China-based hackers are suspected once again of breaking into U.S. government computer networks, and the...
(Politico) – The sister of a wrestling team manager at the Illinois high school where Dennis Hastert once coached says her brother revealed years of...
(Politico) – The sister of a wrestling team manager at the Illinois high school where Dennis Hastert once coached says her brother revealed years of...
CHICAGO (New York Times) — Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, who began building a national profile four years ago by sharply cutting collective bargaining rights...
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