OPINION - The truth is today's Republican party is controlled by a fringe group of players who are after one thing: Making sure the first black...
WASHINGTON (AP) - He said he remains committed to his unfulfilled promise to rewrite the nation's immigration laws, but offered no timelines...
Strength of campaign machinery tested; party welcomes youth support THE Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) says while party’s two-day cross-country bus tour was not intended as...
OPINION - While Rep. West went a tad over-the-top in his response, there is a larger issue here about racial and gender stereotypes of black men...
OPINION - The White House is betting most American will tire of the bomb throwers (and that Wall Street will think twice about playing ball with...
WASHINGTON (AP) - Friday's move was expected under the repeal law Congress passed in December. Before "don't ask, don't tell," the military did not allow gays...
By Richard Stengel Courage is not the absence of fear — it’s inspiring others to move beyond it In 1994, during the presidential-election campaign, Mandela got...
Rupert Murdoch has apologized for everything, but admitted responsibility for nothing. The 80-year-old multi-billionaire and Chairman of News Corp. International, appeared before a special investigations committee...
MIAMI - Kendrick Meek has been nominated by President Barack Obama as a public delegate to the United Nations General Assembly...
Barack Obama may be the Kevlar President -- bad news can bruise him, but none can pierce his armor to cause any severe damage to his...
WASHINGTON (AP) - Waters has repeatedly said she did nothing improper and had no role in the Obama administration's decision to bail out Boston-based OneUnited Bank...
President Obama meets this afternoon with business and non-profit groups dedicated to improving the nation's school systems...
CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) - At least one member of his security detail was killed, several more were wounded and portions of his house were destroyed, said...
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is vowing to fight any efforts to block the work of a new consumer protection bureau head...
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Obama and lawmakers pushed separate plans to avert an unprecedented default on America's national debt, with no signs of an immediate breakthrough...
WASHINGTON (AP) - Administration officials and private economists say that if the U.S. fails to raise its borrowing limit by Aug. 2 and begins to stop...
MONROVIA, Liberia — Football star George Weah returned to Liberia to a hero’s welcome after receiving a degree in business administration from DeVry University in Miami....
Prime Minister Bruce Golding is urging Jamaicans to be patient even as they push for repairs to the infrastructure in their communities."I understand the anguish that...
A majority of American would blame Republicans if the nation fails to raise it's debt ceiling. In addition, voters give a thumbs down to President Obama's...
The GOP's war over America's debt ceiling is not about America's debt, it's about President Obama...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama collected $86 million combined for his re-election campaign and the Democratic Party during the past three months...
FOR THE second time in the history of Jamaica's bicameral legislature, a woman has been installed as speaker of the House of Representatives.Marisa Dalrymple Philibert, a...
The President of the South American nation says he wants to give special importance and priority to the needs of the Caribbean.
OPINION - As a civil rights lawyer who works in the trenches, I am well aware of the barriers that black voters face and particularly sensitive...
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama and top lawmakers resume tense budget talks Monday at the White House, with both sides under pressure to reach a...
The Opposition leader warns that any such programme would do irreparable harm to the country and its citizens.
DOUALA, Cameroon — A government official says Cameroon’s parliament has adopted a new law allowing citizens living overseas to vote in the country’s upcoming presidential election....
The Congressional Black Caucus publicly accused the Obama administration of failing to adequately address a veritable epidemic of African American unemployment...
PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) - Darryl James Swanson has appeared in federal court to face charges that he threatened to kill President Barack Obama and the president's...
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (AP) - The Birmingham City Council has pardoned six women who were arrested in 1963 for protesting segregation-era laws...
He used to be dismissed as an ignorant buffoon, whose populist ranting and colourful racist tirades usefully filled newspaper column inches on a dull day. But...
OPINION - David Duke's presidential hopes can serve as a warning sign: that the threat, though unlikely, is still very much alive...
THE PERSON who will fill the post of attorney general has been selected and will be named this week, Prime Minister Bruce Golding has said."I have...
The Opposition Barbados Labour Party (BLP) knows precisely who is tipped to be Barbados’ next Chief Justice. But when contacted yesterday, its leader Owen Arthur said...
CAIRO — An Egyptian foreign ministry official says Egypt will recognize South Sudan after secession later this week. Mohammed Mursi told the Al-Ahram daily on Tuesday...
OPINION - He actually believes that race is a crutch, an impediment and even an archaic relic of the past in American life...
CHICAGO (AP) - In a statement, NEA President Dennis Van Roekel says Obama and the union share a vision and members wanted early and strong support...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — East African leaders say the African Union and United Nations should impose sanctions on Eritrea’s mining sector. The leaders who met in...
African nations will not execute an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant issued for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, an African Union summit decided Friday. The summit...
PRIME MINISTER Bruce Golding has gained ground on Opposition leader Portia Simpson Miller in the latest check on the favourability and approval ratings of the leaders...
CINCINNATI (AP) - A panel in Cincinnati handed the administration a victory Wednesday by agreeing that the government can require a minimum amount of insurance for...
NEW YORK (AP) - "I thought he was a d**k yesterday," Halperin said Thursday during a discussion about Obama's news conference on Wednesday.
Michael Coleman Columbus, OH Columbus is home to Mayor Coleman, a Democrat bent on whipping the city into greener and more business-friendly shape. An Obama supporter,...
President Barack Obama said Wednesday he believes Democrats and Republicans will reach agreement on reasonable spending cuts and an end to tax cuts for the superwealthy...
Brazile writes that her sister in Florida was a victim of voter suppression during the 2000 election...
The Minister of Justice and Attorney General is the biggest casualty.
DAKAR, Senegal — Activists in the West African nation of Senegal are vowing to keep up their protests unless the president’s son resigns from his government...
The staffers are Matt Murphy, Cain's New Hampshire campaign director, and Jim Zeiler, the campaign's regional director left due to 'strategic differences'...
Five of the country's opposition parties have decided to join forces to contest the upcoming general elections.
ANN ARBOR, Mich.--Many Americans changed their perceptions of discrimination and racism after Barack Obama became the nation's first black president...
THE PRESENT Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) administration is still seen by Jamaicans as the more corrupt of the two major political parties, but the number of...
DETROIT (AP) - The Michigan parole board voted Friday to release former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick from prison after more than a year behind bars...
WASHINGTON (AP) - The release from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve will be the largest ever, amounting to half of a 60 million-barrel international infusion of...
MOST JAMAICANS seem to approve of the manner in which attorneys-at-law K.D. Knight and Patrick Atkinson treated Prime Minister Bruce Golding while he was on the...
WASHINGTON (AP) - But with 100,000 U.S. troops currently in Afghanistan, that drawdown may not be substantial enough to satisfy some lawmakers on Capitol Hill and...
Clinton arrives today - United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will today reaffirm her nation's commitment to the region when she visits Montego Bay, St...
DAKAR, Senegal — Senegal’s ruling party plans to change the constitution to lower the percentage of votes a candidate needs to win an election and to...
OPINION - Justice Thomas must resign if America is to begin to restore integrity to the judiciary...