Tens of thousands crowded the U.S. Capitol grounds Wednesday, urging Congress to pass immigration reform this year. Advocates want a path to citizenship for the nation’s 11 million undocumented immigrants…
On Thursday, February 27th, 2013, oral arguments before the U. S. Supreme Court will take place in Shelby County v. Holder, one of the most important cases in the recent…
U.S. President Barack Obama has called on Congress to stop the $1.2 trillion in automatic cuts to domestic and defense programs. The cuts known as the sequester are set for…
WHITE HOUSE — U.S. President Barack Obama says about one-half of American forces still in Afghanistan will leave the country by this time next year. The president made the announcement…
WASHINGTON — Myrlie Evers-Williams, the widow of slain African-American civil rights leader Medgar Evers, delivered the invocation at President Obama’s second Inauguration. Her spotlight at the historic event came as…
Barack Obama was sworn in on the Capitol steps this morning for a second term as the nation’s 44th President, and in a stirring, 17-minute Inaugural Address, charted out his…
Richard Blanco will become the first ever Hispanic or homosexual person to read at a president’s swearing-in By Alison Flood The award-winning Cuban-American gay poet Richard Blanco is set to…
President Obama will meet with congressional leaders today in another attempt to avert the fiscal cliff — the automatic tax increases and spending cuts set to take effect Jan. 1 unless…
Voter ID laws were one of the most contentious issues of the past election season. (Here is everything you need to know about the laws.) Proponents insisted IDs should be…
The United Nations climate talks in Doha, Qatar, continued into their second week, Wednesday, as delegates from nearly 200 countries struggle to craft a replacement for the Kyoto Protocol, the…
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