Jim Kuhnhenn, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — The trade defeat in Congress was an ominous sign in a month of challenges that could help...
GLYNN A. HILL, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Advocates for ailing Sept. 11 first responders urged Congress on Thursday to permanently extend a law providing medical...
LISA LERER, Associated Press KEN THOMAS, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton is putting everyday Americans at the center of her first major campaign...
LISA LERER, Associated Press KEN THOMAS, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton is putting everyday Americans at the center of her first major campaign...
(BuzzFeed) – A civil rights leader in Eastern Washington state has been passing herself off as black for years, her parents told local media. When reached by...
Community members and the family of Demouria Hogg are calling on the Oakland Police Department and City of Oakland officials to release police-recorded videos that will...
ERICA WERNER, Associated Press CHARLES BABINGTON, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With a last-minute trip to the Capitol, President Barack Obama sought to quell a revolt...
Federal Judge Thelton Henderson is monitoring how the Oakland Police Department (OPD) is handling the investigations of three officer-involved shootings this year, including the killing this...
SCOTT BAUER, Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Four years after taking union rights away from teachers and other public workers in Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker...
STACEY PLAISANCE, Associated Press REBECCA SANTANA, Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Robert King says he watched nearly three decades of his life fade away in...
Washington (CNN) – Ben Carson said Wednesday night that he was “irritated” by the comparison between the fight for same-sex marriage rights and the Civil Rights...
(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...