STEPHEN OHLEMACHER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted Wednesday to expand the benefits of popular college savings plans that President Barack Obama failed to...
STEPHEN OHLEMACHER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted Wednesday to expand the benefits of popular college savings plans that President Barack Obama failed to...
(USA Today) – Despite warnings from congressional Republicans, Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser allowed D.C.’s marijuana legalization law to take effect at 12:01 a.m. Thursday. Rep....
JOSH LEDERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The foundation developing Barack Obama’s future presidential library has commissioned polling in Chicago to determine whether residents support building...
(The Washington Post) – Georgia will no longer require job applicants to disclose their criminal histories on employment forms after Gov. Nathan Deal (R) signed...
SOPHIA TAREEN, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel failed to capture a majority of the vote Tuesday in his bid for a second...
KIMBERLY HEFLING, AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House threatened Wednesday to veto a Republican bill to overhaul the widely criticized No Child Left...
KIMBERLY HEFLING, AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House threatened Wednesday to veto a Republican bill to overhaul the widely criticized No Child Left...
DAVID ESPO, Associated Press ERICA WERNER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A partial agency shutdown looming, Senate Republicans offered Tuesday to permit a vote on Homeland...
DAVID ESPO, Associated Press ERICA WERNER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A partial agency shutdown looming, Senate Republicans offered Tuesday to permit a vote on Homeland...
By Post Staff A number of the regulars who attend the East Oakland Senior Center at 9255 Edes Ave. to play card games like Bid...
(Salon) – Electoral integrity has not improved in the U.S. over the past year, according to a new study. In fact, elections in Mexico now...
ERICA WERNER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Divided Republicans are searching for a way out of an impasse over immigration that is threatening to shut down...
(Politico) – The diversity of the FBI’s special agent ranks slipped further in the past three years, according to key statistical measures just released by...
EILEEN SULLIVAN, Associated Press RONNIE GREENE, Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — On a hot Friday last July, a parolee was mowing a lawn in...
By Freddie Allen Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As the Republican-led Congress prepares to update the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), civil rights...
Roberta Rampton and David Lawder, REUTERS (Reuters)—U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday that a partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security would mean...
Jim Kuhnhenn, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is proposing tougher restrictions on brokers who manage Americans’ retirement accounts, reigniting a confrontation with...
Robert Burns, ASSOCIATED PRESS KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The United States is considering slowing its military exit from Afghanistan by keeping a larger-than-planned troop presence...
Robert Burns, ASSOCIATED PRESS KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The United States is considering slowing its military exit from Afghanistan by keeping a larger-than-planned troop presence...
Whether the proposed massive Coliseum City project would manage to save any of Oakland’s three major sports franchises is uncertain. There are a lot of...
KEN THOMAS, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats on Thursday assailed former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani for questioning President Barack Obama’s love of country,...
(New York Times) – Former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani of New York on Thursday defended his assertion that President Obama did not love America, and said...
(Salon) – The Obama administration is taking a cynical approach to the Supreme Court’s consideration of King v. Burwell, conservatives’ latest desperate and quite possibly...
(CBS News) – Common Core federal education standards are riling the conservative base, and as the 2016 Republican presidential field takes shape, the standards — seen by...