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BY Blake Nicholson Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Cleanup of a North Dakota encampment where opponents of the Dakota Access oil pipeline stayed for …

“We must work together to make a way out of no way. #goodtrouble” was the last thing John Lewis tweeted Sunday, along with a picture …

By ISHEKAN.HARRISON iharrison@sfltimes.com Ever since she was a little girl who would line up her dolls and play school with them, Congresswoman Frederica Wilson has …

By ERRIN HAINES WHACK Associated Press WASHINGTON – On the night in 2008 when Barack Obama was elected the country’s first black president, many black …

BY DAVID EGGERT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. — Flint’s water system no longer has levels of lead exceeding the federal limit, a key finding that …

Associated Press WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Texas in its effort to restore its strict voter identification law. The …

Associated Press NEW YORK – The disciplinary trial of a white New York Police Department officer who fatally shot an unarmed black teenager has ended, …

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON – In an opening salvo against “Obamacare,” President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday night that appears aimed …

By JOCELYNNOVECK AP National Writer WASHINGTON — If you wondered where many of Hollywood’s A-list celebrities had gone during President Donald Trump’s inauguration, you didn’t …

BY JOAN LOWY Associated Press WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats on Tuesday offered a plan to spend $1 trillion on transportation and other infrastructure projects over …