(Slate) – President Obama appeared on a Georgetown-sponsored public policy panel Tuesday and, in addition to making everyone laugh a few times, he participated for about...
ERICA WERNER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators of both parties worked Wednesday to revive trade legislation that’s a top priority for President Barack Obama, a...
STEPHEN OHLEMACHER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Death benefits for the families of fallen police officers would not be subject to federal income tax under a...
CONNIE CASS, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of dollars in foreign money sloshing around a presidential candidate, even in the name of helping the world’s...
NANCY BENAC, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It wasn’t your typical panel discussion: President Barack Obama sat down Tuesday with leading thinkers from the left and...
PHILLIP LUCAS, Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Former U.N. ambassador Andrew Young was taken to a hospital Monday afternoon as a precaution after a cement truck...
DON BABWIN, Associated Press CARYN ROUSSEAU, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — President Barack Obama has decided to build his presidential library on the South Side of...
DON BABWIN, Associated Press CARYN ROUSSEAU, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — President Barack Obama has decided to build his presidential library on the South Side of...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – While political pundits rush ahead to the 2016 presidential election, President Barack Obama is rallying private-sector,...
NEW BOSTON, Tex. (New York Times) — The inmate, dressed in prison whites with a shaved head and incongruously tender eyes behind wire-rimmed glasses, entered the...
San Leandro will host a town hall meeting Monday, May 11 from 7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. for residents of City Council Districts 1, 2 and...
Allie Malloy and Sunlen Serfaty, CNN (CNN) — Michelle Obama gave an impassioned and personal commencement speech Saturday on the trials she’s faced as the first African-American...
Micael Winter, USA TODAY BALTIMORE (USA Today) — The six Baltimore police officers arrested over the death of Freddie Gray asked Friday that charges be...
Congresswoman Barbara Lee met this week with seniors at the West Oakland Senior Center in Oakland to hear their concerns and share with them the work...
LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press KEN DILANIAN, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The unprecedented and unwarranted bulk collection of the entire U.S. population’s phone records by...
THOMAS BEAUMONT, Associated Press JULIE PACE, Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — To judge them solely by their travels over the past month, you might...
JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press DANICA KIRKA, Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Conservative Party swept to power Friday in Britain’s parliamentary elections, winning an unexpected majority...
Now that the Oakland Army Base development project is well underway, city developer and project manager Phil Tagami is working on a behind-the-scenes $53 million deal...
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...
KELLI KENNEDY, Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The Obama administration rebuffed Florida’s Gov. Rick Scott’s proposal to extend federal funds for hospitals that treat the uninsured,...
On Friday, May 1, Marilyn J. Mosby, the States Attorney for Baltimore City, announced she had found probable cause to prosecute six Baltimore police officers for...
DAVID DISHNEAU, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is winning support from other public officials and praise from legal experts for asking the...
(Politico) – When little else is working, try the Congressional Black Caucus. That’s a familiar pattern for the Obama administration: Backed into a corner on...
Oakland City Council chambers became ground zero for protests against gentrification and displacement this week as young activists chained themselves together to keep the City Council...
