(NBC News) – Loretta Lynch, the federal prosecutor President Barack Obama tapped as his pick to replace outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder, will finally get a...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As Congress considers whether to extend the life of a program that sweeps up American phone records, privacy advocates...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As Congress considers whether to extend the life of a program that sweeps up American phone records, privacy advocates...
ERICA WERNER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s long-stalled nominee for attorney general, federal prosecutor Loretta Lynch, is on her way to a confirmation...
Parma, MO (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) – The drugstore is long gone. So, too, are the bank and the barbershop, the opry house and the hardware store....
Parma, MO (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) – The drugstore is long gone. So, too, are the bank and the barbershop, the opry house and the hardware store....
(Politico) – Last week, a parade of educators filed into an Atlanta courtroom to be sentenced for their roles in the test-cheating scandal that has...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Working across the aisle with Republicans on criminal justice reform might be the best shot that...
JIM SUHR, Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Several residents of a tiny southeast Missouri town said Monday they don’t believe the abrupt resignations of five...
JACQUES BILLEAUD, Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The sheriff for metro Phoenix begins a four-day hearing Tuesday that could bring him fines, damage his credibility and...
(Salon) – Independent of one’s stance on the rift between Michael Eric Dyson and Cornel West — a rift years in the making and now clearly...
Daniel Politi, SLATE WASHINGTON (Slate) — President Obama offered support for decriminalizing medical marijuana, as well as an overall change in the way the country...
Jim Kuhnhenn, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — With a tone of outrage and eye-rolling dismissiveness, President Barack Obama and his White House team are working...
Steve Peoples, ASSOCIATED PRESS NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — The Republican Party’s most ambitious have stormed into New Hampshire for an early state showdown that highlighted...
By Rev. Debra Avery, First Presbyterian Church of Oakland When I considered whether to offer my thoughts on Councilmember Desley Brooks’ proposal for a city...
In the wake of the City Council decision to amend the Coliseum Area Specific Plan to protect businesses in the Oakland Airport Business Park, a coalition...
The City Council’s Community and Economic Development (CED) committee voted unanimously this week to approve the sale of public land on East 12th Street across the...
LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The hardest sell for President Barack Obama will be persuading members of his own party to back a bipartisan...
LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The hardest sell for President Barack Obama will be persuading members of his own party to back a bipartisan...
SALLY HO, Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Federal funding could be at stake as Common Core testing problems continued in Nevada, Montana and North Dakota,...
JILL COLVIN, Associated Press EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Likely presidential contender Jeb Bush said Thursday the Senate should confirm attorney general...
(Politico) – Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid is warning he will use hardball floor tactics to force a vote on stalled attorney general nominee Loretta...
DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A former hip-hop journalist who became a White House intern in her 30s was named on Thursday as the...
DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A former hip-hop journalist who became a White House intern in her 30s was named on Thursday as the...
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...