Obama is first black U.S. president
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation and forever changed the course of American history. On Tuesday, President Barack Obama …
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation and forever changed the course of American history. On Tuesday, President Barack Obama …
PHILADELPHIA (AP) _ President-elect Barack Obama, tracing the train route Abraham Lincoln took nearly a century and a half earlier, undertook the final leg of …
MIAMI BEACH – Former President William Jefferson Clinton recently got a standing ovation at the Miami Dream Dinner for the Martin Luther King Jr. National …
SEATTLE (AP) _ Hearst Corp. put Seattle’s oldest newspaper, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, up for sale Friday, Jan. 9, saying that if it can’t find a …
MILWAUKEE (AP) – Killings dropped by a third here last year, making Wisconsin’s largest city among the nation’s most successful in tackling its 2008 murder …
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats who thought they could push away Roland Burris misjudged the racial fallout, underestimated public reaction and wound up on shaky …
WASHINGTON (AP) —Welcome to Washington, Mr. President-elect. Just two weeks before Inauguration Day, congressional Democrats have stalled Barack Obama’s economic recovery legislation while his pick …
Editor’s note: Below is a reprint of a Dec. 30 editorial in The (Lakeland) Ledger, courtesy of The Associated Press. Although Florida’s overall population is …
Roland Burris, President-elect Barack Obama’s appointed successor in the U.S. Senate, was turned away Tuesday when he appeared at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. …
CHICAGO (AP) _ Through media and the courts, Roland Burris is fighting hard to be sworn in as a U.S. senator, despite warnings that Senate …