Posts in category National & World

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama stepped carefully when talking for the first time about the conservative tea party movement, saying the core of the …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Landmark health legislation won’t be enough to reduce racial gaps in unemployment and health care, the National Urban League says in urging …

WASHINGTON (AP) — With time and tempers short, everyone’s playing hardball in the drive to pass – or stop – President Barack Obama’s massive health …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans have come to detest Congress ever more deeply as it nears the end of a nasty fight over health care. But …

WASHINGTON (AP) – Americans and their lawmakers are dramatically out of sync on health care, with large majorities of people looking for bipartisan cooperation that …

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Hispanic and black businesses are receiving a disproportionately small number of federal stimulus contracts, creating a rising chorus of demands for the …

NEW YORK (AP) — The NAACP elected a health care executive as its youngest board chairman Saturday, continuing a movement toward younger leadership for the …

LOS ANGELES (AP) _ The scene was eerily familiar, Katherine Jackson and her family walking grimly into a courtroom, occupying a special family row, demonstrating …

Rex Nettleford, one of Jamaica’s cultural icons, died Tuesday at George Washington Hospital in Washington, D.C., a week after suffering a heart attack at a …

ATLANTA (AP) _ Civil rights icon Joseph Lowery is in an Atlanta hospital because of respiratory problems. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that a friend of …