Senator Mark Leno has introduced legislation designed to help lift California’s low-wage earners out of poverty. Senate Bill 3 – to raise the state’s minimum wage...
WASHINGTON (USA Today) — Two days after celebrating Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth, the Supreme Court will consider weakening a federal housing discrimination law passed...
(Politico) – Like Mrs. O’Leary’s cow, House Republicans kick-started a bigger fire than many imagined with an opening day rules change that revived Social Security...
JULIE PACE, AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Key elements of the economic proposals President Barack Obama will outline in his State of the Union...
Darlene Superville, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — A Maryland man who returned home last month after spending five years imprisoned in Cuba will have a...
Darlene Superville, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — A Maryland man who returned home last month after spending five years imprisoned in Cuba will have a...
By Alex Seitz-Wald, MSNBC California Attorney General Kamala Harris on Tuesday became the first major candidate to formally declare her intention to run for the Senate...
Michael Crowley, POLITICO WASHINGTON (Politico)—He saw Vladimir Putin as a threat to peace. He insisted that radical Islam was spreading. He warned that Iraq was...
Julie Pace, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time in his presidency, Barack Obama will stand before a Republican-led Congress to deliver his...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder called Thursday for better record-keeping on how often police officers use force and are themselves...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder called Thursday for better record-keeping on how often police officers use force and are themselves...
(Politico) – Republicans in Congress are doing a 180 on net neutrality as the Federal Communications Commission prepares to issue new rules within weeks. For...
(Politico) – Republicans in Congress are doing a 180 on net neutrality as the Federal Communications Commission prepares to issue new rules within weeks. For...
(Mother Jones) – In August of last year, a 16-year-old high-schooler in Summerville, South Carolina, turned in a creative writing assignment about shooting his neighbor’s...
(Mother Jones) – In August of last year, a 16-year-old high-schooler in Summerville, South Carolina, turned in a creative writing assignment about shooting his neighbor’s...
City Council President Lynette Gibson McElhaney and Councilmember Larry Reid will hold a special Oakland City Council hearing on Saturday, Jan. 24, 1 p.m., at City...
By Kevin M. Burke, Ph. D., The Root While much is being made about the new movie Selma’s depiction of the complicated relationship between the Rev....
CORONADO, Calif. (AP) — The Republican National Committee’s executive committee voted Wednesday to censure Michigan Republican Dave Agema and seek his resignation after he linked...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Wednesday announced revised guidelines for obtaining records from the news media during criminal leak investigations,...
JOAN LOWY, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The new Republican-controlled Congress is facing an old problem: where to find the money for highway and transit programs....
JOAN LOWY, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The new Republican-controlled Congress is facing an old problem: where to find the money for highway and transit programs....
Hundreds of people from more than two-dozen groups associated with the Anti-Police Terror Project (APTP) will join thousands around the country in 96 hours of action...
ERICA WERNER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican U.S. House voted Wednesday to overturn President Barack Obama’s key immigration policies, approving legislation that would eliminate...
STEVEN R. HURST, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has vetoed just two measures in his six years in the White House, the fewest...
CHARLES BABINGTON, Associated Press ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Democrats are in retreat in more ways than one this week. As Democratic senators...