Former Republican National Committee Chair., Michael Steele. PHOTO/File One thing is certain this election year: President Barack Obama will win African American voters by a colossal...
US President Barack Obama shakes hands with students during a visit to the Dr. Martin Luther King Charter School October 15, 2009 in New Orleans, Louisiana....
U.S. President Barack Obama on the campaign trail. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama, with the help of a slowly improving US economy, is gaining ground in many...
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks on the economy at Florida Atlantic University, April 10, 2012. PHOTO/Marc Serota/Getty Images Presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney collected US$12.6 million...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and GOP contender Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File For the first time since the Super Tuesday primaries, voters are getting a look at...
U.S. President Barack Obama greets audience members at a democratic party fundraiser in Dearborn, Michigan, April 18, 2012. PHOTO/Reuters/Jason Reed A White House official says President...
Jamaica Prime Minister., Portia Simpson-Miller. PHOTO/File Jamaica’s Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller has been listed in Time Magazine’s 100 most influential persons in 2012. Simpson-Miller is one...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and GOP contender Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File President Obama and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney are locked in a very tight race,...
U.S. President Barack Obama – and rising gasoline prices Under pressure to take action on rising gasoline prices, President Barack Obama wants Congress to strengthen federal...
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni. PHOTO/File Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni will step down in 2016 if his ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party asks him to. Museveni...
Rev. Al Sharpton. PHOTO/File The Rev. Al Sharpton is lord of all he surveys. Everybody wants to be on Sharpton’s good side these days. No fewer...
Shane Shillingford bowled impressively in his first Test in nearly two years to help West Indies put the brakes on Australia in the second Digicel Test...
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks on the economy at Florida Atlantic University, April 10, 2012. PHOTO/Marc Serota/Getty Images (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign...
Jamaica Prime Minister., Portia Simpson-Miller. PHOTO/File Having secured a landslide victory in the December 29 general election, People’s National Party (PNP) president, Portia Simpson-Miller was sworn...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama has called on Republican Mitt Romney to release his past tax returns, saying that candidates for office need...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File The construction industry and state and local governments are among the biggest drags on the nation’s economic recovery, President Obama said...
Grenada Prime Minister., Tillman Thomas. PHOTO/File Opposition leader Dr Keith Mitchell has repeated his often-made appeal for Grenada’s Prime Minister Tillman Thomas to dissolve parliament and...
Trinidad & Tobago Prime Minister.,Kamla Persad Bissessar The splits within the five-party coalition People’s Partnership government are widening into noticeable cracks even as Prime Minister Kamla...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama and his family paid more than US$160,000 in federal taxes last year on earnings of US$789,674, the White...
Newark mayor., Corey Booker. PHOTO/File The mayor of New Jersey’s largest city said Friday he feared for his life as he helped rescue a neighbor from...
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks on the economy at Florida Atlantic University, April 10, 2012. PHOTO/Marc Serota/Getty Images For all the turmoil of the long primary...
An official has announced that presidential runoff election in Guinea-Bissau will be held on April 29. Former Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Jr. took nearly 49 percent...
Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham says the Bahamas will hold general elections next month. Ingraham said in a televised address Tuesday that his Free National Movement would...
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney campaigning. PHOTO/File After a long primary season, Mitt Romney begins his contest with Barack Obama without having attracted any notable African-American...
Haiti Prime Minister-designate.,Laurent Lamothe. PHOTO/File Haiti’s Senate late Tuesday approved the nomination of Laurent Lamothe to become the new prime minister of the earthquake-ravaged nation, a...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) faces Mitt Romney (r) in November elections. PHOTO/AP A Washington Post-ABC poll out Tuesday finds that President Obama leads Mitt Romney...
The President of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), Sir Dennis Byron, today said regional countries should “complete their independence and sovereignty by claiming the rights...
Malawi President., Joyce Banda. PHOTO/File Malawi’s new President Joyce Banda says she has opened an investigation into the 2011 death of an activist who had criticized...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File Picking an election-year fight with Republicans, President Barack Obama is urging Congress to boost taxes on millionaires, traveling to Florida to...
Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister., Kamla Persad Bissessar. PHOTO/File Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar is planning to reshuffle her cabinet in early May. In...
Haiti’s Prime Minister-designate Laurent Lamothe. PHOTO/File Haiti’s Prime Minister-designate Laurent Lamothe, on Thursday met leaders of the Inite Political Party in order to speak about his...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File Independents like President Barack Obama better but feel ideologically closer to Mitt Romney, according to a new poll of a dozen...
U.S. President Barack Obama President Barack Obama is warning that the U.S. job market will still face “ups and downs” despite news Friday that the economy...
Haiti President., Michel Martelly The office of Haiti’s President Michel Martelly says the leader has completed surgery on his right shoulder in Miami. The presidential office’s...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama will sign the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act on Thursday. The JOBS legislation includes key initiatives that Obama...
The Portia Simpson-Miller administration is to present its spending plan for the 2012/2013 fiscal year to the country. The minister with responsibility for Information Sandrea Falconer...
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. PHOTO/File Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has vehemently denied any interest in the Vice President’s spot on the 2012...
Bermuda’s new Chief Justice.,Ian Kawaley Ian Kawaley was sworn in Tuesday as the island’s new Chief Justice, replacing Englishman Richard Ground who took up the post...
U.S.President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama is ready to sign legislation prohibiting members of Congress, the president and thousands of other federal workers from engaging...
New Kingston Mayor, Angela Brown-Burke. PHOTO/File As her first order of business, newly elected mayor of Kingston, Angela Brown-Burke says she would be working with the...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File In an election-year pitch to middle-class voters, President Barack Obama is denouncing a House Republican budget plan as a “Trojan horse,”...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama is pulling ahead with a 4-percentage-point lead over Mitt Romney in a general election matchup, according to a...
The junior officer who grabbed power in a coup last week said Friday he plans to hold free elections and rapidly return Mali to its established...
Haiti President Michel Martelly A few hundred people have gathered in Haiti’s capital to accuse President Michel Martelly of abusing the country’s Constitution. The supporters of...
U.S. President Barack Obama under pressure from rising oil prices. The Obama administration today endorsed new oil and gas exploration along the Atlantic Coast, setting the...
Several thousand people took to the streets of Mali’s capital, Bamako, Wednesday in support of last week’s military takeover and a new constitution hastily written by...
Barbados Prime Minister., Freundel Stuart A number of important social and environmental issues, among other matters, will be up for discussion today, when the Caribbean Green...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Obama leads GOP presidential front-runner Mitt Romney by 10 percent, according to a Suffolk University poll released on Monday. Obama...
The ruling People’s National Party (PNP) crushed the opposition Jamaica Labor Party (JLP) in the local government elections held Monday, taking 12 of the 13 parish...
Former Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago., Patrick Manning. PHOTO/Reuters Patrick Manning has been released from hospital in the United States, and is expected to be...
There are two relevant issues. First, does Obama’s health law provide better medical care for Americans? And is it reducing the cost of healthcare? While the...
Jamaicans head to the polls today for the second time in three months, to cast their ballots for local government representatives in 228 divisions across 63...
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing addresses members of Youth Voice during a meeting in his conference room. PHOTO/Carlos Osorio/AP Photo Detroit Mayor Dave Bing had surgery Saturday...
U.S. President Barack Obama and South Korean president Lee Myung-bak address a joint press conference in Seoul, South Korea PHOTO/Lee Yong-ho/ Pool/Epa President Barack Obama is...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama will nominate Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim to head the World Bank, a surprise pick for the...
Jamaican Prime Minister., Portia Simpson-Miller. PHOTO/File The Jamaica Emergency Employment Programme (JEEP) was officially launched by Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller thursday at a ceremony held off...
Former Zambia President Rupiah Banda. PHOTO/File Former Zambian President Rupiah Banda has accepted an appointment as the African President-in-Residence at Boston University. The 75-year-old Banda served...
In September, four Uruguayan United Nations peacekeepers serving with MINUSTAH in Haiti were sent home for an investigation of the alleged assault of an 18-year-old Haitian...
Haitian authorities are ordering some army veterans and would-be soldiers to clear out of several old barracks they have taken over in recent weeks in hopes...
U.S. President Barack Obama facing rising gas prices. PHOTO/AP U.S. President Barack Obama is reportedly set to announce in Oklahoma this week that he’s expediting the...
Senegal presidential candidate., Macky Sall. PHOTO/File Macky Sall may be 30 years younger than the man he will face in the run-off election for Senegal’s president,...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Obama appears to be widening his lead against all Republican presidential hopefuls, including Mitt Romney, among voters in the swing...
Belize Prime Minister Dean Barrow. PHOTO/File Returning Belizean Prime Minister Dean Barrow has named his new cabinet, following his re-election in the country’s March 7 vote....
President Barack Obama raised US$45 million for his re-election campaign, the Democratic Party and other campaign funds in February, bringing his total to about US$300 million...
U.S. President Barack Obama With oil and gas prices at the pump on his mind, President Barack Obama says Congress should kill tax breaks for the...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File Barack Obama likes to say that as President of the United States, he doesn’t “bluff” when it comes to foreign policy....
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File Vigorously defending his policies, President Barack Obama ridiculed critics of renewable energy sources Thursday, calling them naysayers and comparing them to...
U.S. President Barack Obama listens as British Prime Minister David Cameron speaks during a joint press conference. PHOTO/Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images The leaders of the United States...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images Most Americans don’t actually blame the President for the high gas prices, at least so far. Sixty-six percent of...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama’s approval rating has taken a hit in a new poll that shows a growing frustration with the president’s...
Arkansas speaker-designate., Darrin Williams. PHOTO/File Arkansas legislators have elected a new speaker of the House. Historians say Democratic Rep. Darrin Williams is the first black speaker...
Former RNC Chairman Michael Steele. PHOTO/File Is the never-ending and ever-bitter 2012 Republican presidential race, which at this point seems to be alienating independent voters, Michael...
The Justice Department’s civil rights division on Monday objected to a new photo ID requirement for voters in Texas because many Hispanic voters lack state-issued identification....
President Barack Obama has a public relations problem when it comes to Afghanistan, to say the least. Once the must-fight war for America, the decade-long mission...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/AP As the Republican presidential candidates continue to battle and improvement in the US economy is seen, President Obama is getting better...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama is hitting back at Republican criticism of his energy policies and his role in controlling gas prices. Obama...
Haiti President.,Michel Martelly. PHOTO/File Seeking to end rumors that he is a US citizen, President Michel Martelly showed his Haitian passport on national television. Haiti’s constitution...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File Employment grows steadily for third straight month – a sign the economic recovery may be sustainable. Praising manufacturing jobs, President Barack...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and GOP candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/AP President Barack Obama’s top reelection strategists derisively painted Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney on Wednesday...
Belize Prime Minister Dean Barrow. PHOTO/File (CMC) – The ruling United Democratic Party (UDP) of Prime Minister Dean Barrow has won the general election by the...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File Iran’s top leader Thursday welcomed comments by President Barack Obama advocating diplomacy and not war as a solution to Tehran’s nuclear...
A circuit court judge in Wisconsin has suspended the state’s controversial voter ID law, arguing there is little proof it would prevent voter fraud, as proponents...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama will outline incentives to promote development of more fuel-efficient cars and to make it easier for people to...
Prince Harry is welcomed by Jamaica’s Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller. PHOTO/AP/Collin Reid Jamaica’s Prime Minister, Portia Simpson-Miller, says it’s time for the Caribbean island to ditch...
Rev. Al Sharpton. PHOTO/File The Rev. Al Sharpton and other civil rights leaders are marching this week in Alabama in an attempt to draw public attention...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File At a news conference at the White House on Tuesday, President Obama lashed out at Mitt Romney and the other GOP...
Ghana on Tuesday observed its 55th Independence anniversary with President John Atta Mills reassuring his government’s commitment to put up all precautionary measures to ensure peaceful...
Senegalese leader Abdoulaye Wade’s senior minister responsible for Presidential Affairs has quit. Mr Adama Sall has resigned the post and joined presidential contestant Macky Sall, who...
Zimbabwe’s heavyweight neighbour South Africa on Monday dismissed a push by President Robert Mugabe for new polls without long-delayed reforms required by the country’s unity deal....
Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister., Kamla Persad Bissessar. PHOTO/reuters (CMC) – The five-party People’s Partnership coalition Saturday closed ranks and easily defeated a motion of no...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama says higher auto mileage standards set under his administration and better cars built by a resurgent U.S. auto...
Haiti links its history to Africa Haiti’s bid to join the African Union (AU) last month may evoke a little head scratching and confused double takes....
A coalition of African American Clergy announced the launch of a new voting initiative entitled The Empowerment Movement. This is a faith based voting initiative, that...
Kamla Persad Bissessar. PHOTO/newsday.co.tt Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar today faces a vote of no confidence that her coalition People’s Partnership government is expected to easily...
Former Senegal President., Abdou Diouf. PHOTO/File Senegal’s former president Abdou Diouf offered upbeat comments about the spread of democracy in Africa — including in his own...
A referendum on replacing the Queen as Jamaica’s head of state could take place sooner rather than later. Jamaica’s prime minister has said she wants her...
Prominent African-American Republicans. PHOTO/NewsOne.com It’s a question that comes up every time you hit the home page of the Republican National Committee’s website: Where are all...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama is turning his political sights on New Hampshire, the small but strategically important general election battleground where his...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama said he was “confident” the United States could stick to its Afghan drawdown timetable despite a week of...
Ithaca Mayor., Svante Myrick. PHOTO/MSNBC At just 24-years-old, Svante Myrick is the youngest mayor ever elected in the city of Ithaca, New York. The Cornell University...
Julius Malema. PHOTO/File The African National Congress (ANC) expelled the party’s youth leader late Wednesday, the latest attempt to control a figure who has angered his...
Laker’s Kobe Bryant. PHOTO/File A new NBA policy could prevent Bryant from playing Wednesday after a neurologist diagnosed him Tuesday with a concussion from a hard...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama plans to announce Tuesday the creation of a new enforcement office to challenge what the White House calls...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama is reaping political benefits from the country’s brighter economic mood. A new poll shows that Republicans and Democrats...
Former Haiti Prime Minister, Garry Conille. PHOTO/File Garry Conille, whose abrupt resignation as Haiti prime minister on Friday, threw the country into political turmoil once again,...
Former Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago., Patrick Manning. PHOTO/Reuters Former Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Patrick Manning who suffered a stroke on January 23, 2012...
Senegal President Abdoulaye Wade, right, casts his vote in presidential elections. PHOTO/REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal Voters booed Senegal’s president so loudly when he went to cast his ballot...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama says there is no easy answer to the problem of rising energy prices and he’s dismissing Republican solutions...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File After watching the Republican candidates lock the kryptonite that is the immigration issue around their necks during the Arizona debate, the...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – As Republican presidential candidates toss barbs at Barack Obama over expensive gasoline, the U.S. president and his team are...
Chief Justice Hugh Rawlins. PHOTO/File Hugh Anthony Rawlins, Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, has announced his resignation, effective August 1. The native of...
Herman Cain. PHOTO/File Herman Cain is throwing his weight behind a handful of Republican congressional hopefuls who are intent on advancing the conservative platform he espoused...
Antiguan opposition leader, former Prime Minister Lester Bird Antigua Opposition Lester Bird prevailed in his defamation case against Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer and Crusader Radio Publications...
Kenyan officials prepare ballot boxes. PHOTO/Antony Gitonga/REUTERS A dozen African countries will be either holding or have planned elections this year; fittingly flagged off by the...
Mitt Romney is burning through cash more than twice as fast as he’s raising it, new reports filed Monday show — a clear sign that a...
France said Monday it had recalled its ambassador to Rwanda after authorities in Kigali refused to accept Paris’s choice of a new envoy. “The Rwandan authorities...
Former Nigeria President Olesegun Obasanjo The Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS) Heads of State and Government has approved the appointment of former Nigerian President,...
Senegal President Abdoulaye Wade. PHOTO/File Police opened fire with tear gas Saturday on a commercial avenue in Senegal’s capital, as security forces wrapped up early voting...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama says the painful restructuring of America’s manufacturing base means a lot of jobs are gone forever, but not...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama raised US$29.1 million for his campaign and for the Democratic Party in January, a strong fundraising month that...
South Sudan has called on the United Nations to push Sudan to free dozens of its citizens that the later was holding in slavery. Chief negotiator...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – A payroll tax cut for 160 million Americans, set to expire at the end of this month, would be...
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders are in Haiti to forge stronger ties and closer cooperation between the 14 member states while exploring ways to strengthen Haiti’s participation...
U.S. President Barack Obama Pointing to a rebound in manufacturing, President Barack Obama in Wednesday is visiting a Milwaukee plant that has brought back jobs to...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Obama’s political standing is rising along with voters’ optimism that the economy is getting better, according to the latest New...
U.S. President Barack Obama listens to China’s Vice President Xi Jinping. PHOTO/reuters Barack Obama has warned Beijing that it has to play by the same rules...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama is going on the offense Tuesday, raising pressure on congressional Republicans to extend the payroll tax cut and...
The U.N. Security Council began a four-day mission in Haiti on Monday to review the terms of its mandate and evaluate earthquake reconstruction efforts in the...
Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele. PHOTO/File The GOP primary in Florida on January 31 highlighted a fundamental problem the Republican Party will face in...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama is sending Congress a new budget that seeks to achieve US$4 trillion in deficit reduction over the next...
Zambia President Michael Sata. PHOTO/Reuters/Makson Wasamunu Six weeks after his election, President Michael Sata still seems unsure about what he is doing at State House. Few...
Copies of the a appendix of President Barack Obama’s fiscal 2013 federal budget. AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta President Barack Obama’s new budget proposal will ask Congress...
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday described the ability of journalists to protect their sources as “sacred” as she called upon Police Commissioner Dwayne Gibbs “to provide...
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe. PHOTO/File A draft of a proposed new Zimbabwean constitution would prohibit the country’s longtime president from running in the next election. Loyalists...
Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele. PHOTO/File Former Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman Michael Steele was on MSNBC on Tuesday when he said that he...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama on Thursday will free 10 states from the strict and sweeping requirements of the No Child Left Behind...
President Barack Obama wants to quickly resolve religious unease about making religious-employer health plans cover contraceptives, advisers said. “We certainly don’t want to abridge anyone’s religious...
Former Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago., Patrick Manning. PHOTO/Reuters Former Trinidad and Tobago prime minister Patrick Manning was airlifted to the Walter Reed Memorial Hospital...
U.S. President Barack Obama President Barack Obama’s campaign is asking top fundraisers to support a Democratic-leaning outside group that is backing the president’s re-election bid, reversing...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – President Barack Obama, bolstered by a stronger economic outlook and recent job growth, would win in a match-up against...
Jamaica’s Prime Minister, Portia Simpson-Miller has indicated that the country will will be moving to sign on to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in its...
Bermuda Premier., Paula Cox CMC – Premier Paula Cox has offered to take a pay cut in exchange for a new pay deal for civil servants,...
Julius Malema Julius Malema has lost an appeal against a decision by South Africa’s ruling party to suspend him. He was suspended from the African National...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File A second term for President Barack Obama would allow him to expand his replacement of Republican-appointed majorities with Democratic ones on...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File A few months ago, President Barack Obama looked like he could claim 2012 bragging rights as a deft foreign policy leader....
Zambian former First Lady Thandiwe Banda. PHOTO/File Zambia’s former First Lady Thandiwe Banda was Friday questioned by Police in connection with luxurious villas in Lusaka and...
Former Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago., Patrick Manning. PHOTO/Reuters Former Trinidad prime minister Patrick Manning is on the road to recovery following a stroke at...
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. PHOTO/File Attorney General Eric Holder clashed with Republicans at a House committee hearing Thursday over demands that the Justice Department turn...
The Obama administration is trying to fix a stubborn drag on the economy by allowing all homeowners to refinance their mortgages at lower interest rates even...
Audrey Marks., Jamaica’s outgoing Ambassador to the United States. PHOTO/JIS Jamaica’s ambassador to the United States Audrey Marks, yesterday confirmed that she has resigned, a move...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama sought on Tuesday to revive a plan to give small businesses tax breaks and help...
An African Union (AU) official says African leaders gathered in Ethiopia have failed to elect a new chairman of the AU Commission. An AU official said...
Former Haitian leader., Jean-Claude Duvalier. PHOTO/File A Haitian judge said Monday that former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier should face trial for corruption, but not the more serious...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File Aiming tax increases at millionaires and companies that ship jobs abroad may help frame the fairness theme of President Barack Obama’s...
Benin President Thomas Boni Yayi (pictured), was elected the African Union (AU) Chairman on Sunday, taking over the one-year post from Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang...
Herman Cain. PHOTO/File Former presidential hopeful Herman Cain threw his support behind Newt Gingrich Saturday night, providing the former House speaker with a late boost just...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama is pressing his case for changes in how the Senate does business, hoping to ease the partisan gridlock,...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama will announce a plan to shift some federal dollars away from colleges and universities that don’t control tuition...
Uhuru Kenyatta. PHOTO/REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya Kenya’s finance minister and the head of the civil service have resigned their posts after the International Criminal Court said it would...
Haiti’s president suggested Thursday that he might pardon former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier, saying reconciliation for his nation is more important than making the man known as...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama is announcing the sale of oil and gas drilling leases for nearly 38 million acres in the Gulf...
Declaring the American dream under siege, President Barack Obama delivered a populist challenge Tuesday night to shrink the gap between rich and poor, promising to tax...
Former Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago., Patrick Manning. PHOTO/Reuters Former prime minister Patrick Manning remains “partly paralyzed” at a public hospital today, his wife, Hazel...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File State of the Union speeches allow presidents to command attention before a joint session of Congress, invited guests and, more importantly,...
(Barbados Nation) – Striking teachers at the Alexandra School will return to classes at the St Peter School on Wednesday morning. Prime Minister Freundel Stuart (pictured),...
South Africa’s fiery youth leader Julius Malema (pictured) on Monday asked the ruling African National Congress (ANC) to set aside his five-year suspension, in a bellwether...
J.C. Watts. PHOTO/File Former U.S. House Rep. J.C. Watts said Monday the Republican presidential candidates need to have more African-Americans “at the strategists’ table” to woo...
January 20 was the third inauguration anniversary of Barack Obama, the first African American president of the US. President Obama was inaugurated on the January 20,...
Zambia President., Michael Sata An unverified alteration on Wikipedia that Zambian President Michael Sata had died in an assassination Sunday morning prompted the presidency to strongly...
U.S. President., Barack Obama. PHOTO/File As President Barack Obama prepares to deliver his annual address to Congress, many goals he outlined in previous State of the...
Jamaica Prime Minister., Portia Simpson-Miller. PHOTO/File (Barbados Nation) – In a few days Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller says the government will create approximately 700 jobs when...
After raising mountain of complaints about the ill effects of the no-user-fee policy that was implemented by the former Jamaica Labor Party (JLP) government, the new...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama’s appointments to two key agencies during the Senate’s year-end break ensures that GOP senators will return to work...
Former Haiti dictator., Jean Claude Duvalier. PHOTO/File A judge in Haiti has admonished former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier for violating the terms of his conditional release by...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File In its budget submission next month, the Obama administration will urge lawmakers to revisit the failed attempt by a congressional supercommittee...
Jamaica Labor Party and opposition leader., Andrew Holness. PHOTO/File (Jamaica Gleaner) – Opposition Leader Andrew Holness has named a 16-member shadow Cabinet to oversee the 20-member...
(Reuters) – Ugandan police fired tear gas before bundling opposition leader Kizza Besigye and several allies into police vans on Thursday, witnesses said, shortly before planned...
President Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress are back where they were before Christmas, locked in an election-season tussle over a proposed 1,700-mile oil pipeline from...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File The growing anti-SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) support that has swept through the gaming and Internet community found a very big...
South Africa on Wednesday pushed its campaign for Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma to head the African Union (AU) executive, a key post to be decided...
Once notorious Haitian dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier (pictured), is living comfortably while awaiting trial for crimes against humanity, officials say. Duvalier, now 60, still has...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama plans to accept the Democratic presidential nomination in the open air of Bank of America Stadium on the...
Edison James Former Prime Minister Edison James has returned to the head of the main opposition United Workers Party (UWP), promising to lead it into power...
President Barack Obama has a long agenda Tuesday, including hosting King Abdullah II of Jordan at the White House. After his daily briefing and meeting with...
President Barack Obama. AP Photo/Charles Dharapak President Barack Obama evoked Martin Luther King, Jr.’s own words about public service Monday as Obama and his family celebrated...
Martin Luther Jr. PHOTO/File By: Donna Brazile Every third Monday in January we gather as Americans to commemorate the values and beliefs — as well as...
Patrice Lumumba. PHOTO/File Tuesday, January 17, 2012 is the 51st anniversary of the assassination of Patrice Lumumba allegedly by the United States and Belgium (Belgium apologized...
Jamaica Prime Minister., Portia Simpson-Miller Last month, in an otherwise ordinary election debate, Jamaica’s candidates for prime minister were asked whether they agree with former prime...
President Barack Obama is promoting his efforts to make government more efficient and to persuade companies to bring jobs back to the U.S. from overseas. He...
South Africa President., Jacob Zuma. PHOTO/Reuters South African President Jacob Zuma told the U.N. Security Council on Thursday that it “completely ignored” the African Union (AU)...
President Barack Obama will ask Congress on Friday for greater power to shrink the federal government, and his first idea is merging six sprawling trade and...
Nigeria President., Goodluck Jonathan. PHOTO/File Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan was in crisis talks with union leaders Thursday night in an effort to end a violent nationwide...
President Barack Obama annouces Richard Cordray (R) as his nominee to be the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. PHOTO/UPI/Kevin Dietsch The Justice Department is...
President Barack Obama said Wednesday that he would propose tax incentives for companies to bring home manufacturing jobs they had moved overseas, and curtail tax breaks...
The protest first drew Nigerians who live hand-to-trash, scavenging through mountains of garbage to make a living. Now, long lines of cars and expensive motorcycles are...
Zambia’s minister of Tourism Given Lubinda (pictured), has bungee jumped from the Victoria Falls Bridge in an effort to reassure tourists after a New Year’s eve...
President Obama’s re-election team is already aggressively targeting former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, even as Romney is far from sealing the GOP nomination. Here’s a look...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama will focus on American jobs Wednesday, while trying to keep his own. He and Vice President Joe Biden...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images While the media has focused on the Republican presidential primaries, offstage the greatest revolution in American foreign policy in...
Haiti President., Michel Martelly. PHOTO/File Haitians still have much to do to recover from the 2010 earthquake, President Michel Martelly said Monday, and he conceded to...