DINA CAPPIELLO, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Supporters of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would run from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, say the privately...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press ERICA WERNER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans demanded wholesale change at the Justice Department Thursday as they questioned whether President...
ANDREW DeMILLO, Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A bid to end Arkansas’ practice of commemorating Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and civil rights icon...
STEPHEN OHLEMACHER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House said Tuesday it is dropping a proposal to scale back the tax benefits of college savings...
ERICA WERNER, Associated Press ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Confronting skeptical Republicans, attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch pledged a new start with Congress and...
WASHINGTON (New York Times) — Loretta E. Lynch on Wednesday will cast herself as an apolitical career prosecutor who is a departure from Eric H. Holder Jr. when she faces...
Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Civil rights leaders and groups are hailing legislation introduced by U.S. Reps. Mark Pocan (D-Wisc.) and Keith Ellison...
MATTHEW BARAKAT, Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — For years, ex-CIA case officer Jeffrey Sterling was the one under indictment but prosecutors’ primary focus of pursuit...
STEPHEN OHLEMACHER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Solid economic growth will help the federal budget deficit shrink this year to its lowest level since President Barack...
STEPHEN OHLEMACHER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Solid economic growth will help the federal budget deficit shrink this year to its lowest level since President Barack...
(Politico) – A federal jury’s decision Monday to convict a former CIA officer for leaking top-secret information to a New York Times reporter was a...
Dear President Obama: We love you. We respect you. We support you. We strongly supported your becoming President and have continued to support you through...
Adam Edelman, THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS (New York Daily News)—Even Hillary is finally ready for Hillary it seems. Hillary Clinton will “100%” run for...
Gregory Korte, USA TODAY WASHINGTON (USA Today)—With passage of his State of the Union agenda unlikely in a Republican-controlled Congress, President Obama called on the...
Michael Falcone, Good Morning America via ABC NEWS (ABC News)—With the 2016 presidential election season heating up and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton considered...
NANCY BENAC, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has a telling hit list. The veto threats that he’s issued over the last three weeks...
More than 250 residents, lawmakers and academics spent five hours Saturday at a forum exploring what Barbara White of the Berkeley NAACP called “the normalization of...
(The District Sentinel) – Amid a fledgling primary campaign, rural Iowa state lawmaker Joni Ernst crafted a quirky hardscrabble persona that propelled her to both the forefront of...
THOMAS BEAUMONT, Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on Thursday tapped former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to serve as...
Representatives of small businesses are complaining that city staff is on a fast track to adopt a formal plan for a massive Coliseum City development project,...
JULIE PACE, AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned trip to Washington in March is kicking up a diplomatic dust...
Protesters who took over the West Oakland BART station and shut down the trains on Black Friday received an outpouring of support on Thursday as community...
(Slate) – The most notable Republican reaction to President Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday night did not come from official respondent Joni Ernst,...
MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For the second time in 11 months, opponents of Supreme Court rulings lifting limits on money in political campaigns...
WASHINGTON (USA Today) — House Speaker John Boehner on Wednesday invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress without consulting the White House, an...