Robin Kelly. PHOTO/Charles Rex Arbogast/AP President Barack Obama on Tuesday endorsed Robin Kelly in the race to replace Jesse Jackson Jr., who resigned from the seat...
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus have presented an alternative budget for the 2013 fiscal year that they said slashes deficits, eliminates the sequester and protects...
William “Mo” Cowan. PHOTO/AP William “Mo” Cowan of Massachusetts is the Senate’s newest member. The 43-year-old Democrat took his seat Thursday after a swearing-in ceremony led...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama says 2013 can be a year of solid economic growth, but only if Washington gets out of the...
William “Mo” Cowan. PHOTO/AP Gov. Deval Patrick has named his former chief-of-staff William “Mo” Cowan to serve as interim U.S. senator for Massachusetts until a special...
VIDEO - Michael Tubbs, a 22 year-old Stanford graduate, is the youngest ever city councilman to be elected in his hometown of Stockton, C.A...
Newark Mayor Cory Booker. PHOTO/File Newark Mayor Cory Booker, New Jersey’s highest-profile Democrat, has ruled out a bid for governor next year and is eyeing a...
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations., Susan Rice. PHOTO/File Susan Rice has withdrawn her name from consideration to be the next secretary of state after the...
Newark Mayor Cory Booker and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. PHOTO/ABC News Newark mayor Cory Booker sat down with The Daily Show on Wednesday night and...
Rep. Tim Scott. PHOTO/Sandra Ecklund/WCIV The surprising resignation of Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina, one of President Obama’s sharpest critics even among Republicans, creates an...
U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. addresses the audience at the Democratic National Convention 2008 at the Pepsi Center in Denver, Colorado, on August 25, 2008. PHOTO/Richards/AFP/Getty...
President Obama won a second term last week, but it wasn’t a great week for other African-American candidates. Despite Obama’s big win, there remain no black...
U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. addresses the audience at the Democratic National Convention 2008 at the Pepsi Center in Denver, Colorado, on August 25, 2008. PHOTO/Richards/AFP/Getty...
Then Republican presidential candidate businessman Herman Cain waves to the crowd before a Republican presidential debate Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011, in Las Vegas. PHOTO/Isaac Brekken/AP Herman...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
US president Barack Obama meets King Abdullah of Jordan in the Oval Office. PHOTO/Kevin Lamarque/Reuters President Barack Obama on Tuesday decried continued and “unacceptable” levels of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
U.S. President Barack Obama flanked by William Daley (l) and Jack Lew. PHOTO/Getty Images Jacob (Jack) Lew was named on Monday as President Barack Obama’s chief...
Jamaica Prime Minister., Portia Simpson-Miller (Jamaica Gleaner) – U.S. President Barack Obama today congratulated Jamaica’s Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller on her recent election victory and to...
President Barack Obama is beginning the week by hosting the NBA world champion Dallas Mavericks at the White House. Obama, who roots regularly for the Chicago...
U.S. President., Barack Obama The promising drop in unemployment on Friday looks like a job-security bonus for President Barack Obama as well, undercutting Republicans’ assertions that...
U.S. President., Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama vowed Thursday the United States will remain the world’s pre-eminent military power even as the Pentagon scales back...
US President Barack Obama. PHOTO/Jim Young/Reuters President Barack Obama is putting his personal stamp on a rejiggered Pentagon strategy for absorbing hundreds of billions of dollars...
President Barack Obama on Wednesday will buck Republican opposition in a defiant display of executive power and name a new U.S. chief consumer watchdog. Outraged Republican...
US President Barack Obama. AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain President Barack Obama is pushing his economic message in Ohio, brandishing his presidential megaphone in a politically important...
Former President Jimmy Carter has some advice for Barack Obama as he gears up for the 2012 election: Don’t alienate voters with controversial positions. The Georgia...
Former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain. AP Photo/Isaac Brekken Former Republican presidential candidate, Herman Cain appeared on television Tuesday morning. Cain stated that his wife, Gloria,...
US President Barack Obama With an eye on the 2012 campaign, President Barack Obama is wrapping up a Hawaiian vacation and planning to jump back into...
Gary, Indiana Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson PHOTO/Courtesy Karen for Gary On Saturday, Karen Freeman-Wilson, 51, will become mayor of Gary, her hometown, where she was elected in...
US President Barack Obama AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain The Obama White House probably watched the Republican primary season with some dismay as a series of candidates...
US President Barack Obama. AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain Leaving behind a year of bruising legislative battles, President Barack Obama enters his fourth year in office having...
U.S. President Barack Obama A majority of Latinos say they disapprove of how the Obama administration is handling deportations of illegal immigrants but still would back...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File As the United States enters the crucial election year, President Barack Obama and his Democratic party has a clear edge over...
U.S. President Barack Obama. AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will nominate Harvard economist Jeremy Stein and Jerome Powell, an investment banker and...
US President Barack Obama and his daughter Malia make their way into the chapel for Christmas service at Marine Corps Base Hawaii. AFP PHOTO/Mandel NGAN Source:...
U.S. President., Barack Obama On a political high, President Barack Obama capped a bruising year by securing a tax cut for millions of Americans, an achievement...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File Christmas is only a couple of days away, and this week the Obama administration delivered a last-minute Christmas present to all...
U.S. President Barack Obama Bowing under intense pressure from members of their own party to end the politically damaging impasse over a payroll tax holiday, House...
African-American mayors from across the United States left their tight-knit communities, some with as few as 855 citizens, and traveled across the Atlantic Ocean for a...
U.S. President., Barack Obama President Barack Obama is using Americans’ money worries to pressure House Republicans to pass a short-term extension of payroll tax cuts. The...
Former GOP Presidential Candidate., Herman Cain He’s no longer running for president, but Herman Cain will finish 2011 having racked up more national media coverage than...
U.S.President., Barack Obama. /AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain The House of Representatives Tuesday rejected legislation to extend a payroll tax cut and jobless benefits for two months,...
U.S. President.,Barack Obama President Obama’s job-approval numbers remain poor, but at 49% they have rebounded to their strongest point since March, showing substantial improvements from young...
U.S. President Barack Obama AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain President Barack Obama is standing by his award of the Medal of Honor to a Marine in the...
U.S. President., Barack Obama How can Barack Obama, as this new NBC/Marist poll has it, be beating Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney in South Carolina, of...
Eager to put the long and divisive Iraq war to rest, President Barack Obama declared Monday “those days are over” with the last American troops heading...
Former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain appeared on Fox News Thursday and hinted that he would be busy with both personal and political business over the...
On issues from air pollution to contraception, President Barack Obama has broken sharply with liberal activists and come down on the side of business interests and...
Invoking the elimination of Osama bin Laden, President Barack Obama on Thursday forcefully rejected Republican criticism of his foreign policy as what amounts to a policy...
Herman Cain Oddly enough, the emergence of the first black president has coincidentally led to a resurgence of black Republicans. Following the election and swearing-in of...
President Barack Obama raised the threat of a veto Wednesday if Republicans try attaching controversial oil pipeline or other language to a bill renewing payroll tax...
Declaring the American middle class in jeopardy, President Barack Obama on Tuesday outlined a populist economic vision that will drive his re-election bid, insisting the United...
President Barack Obama wants voters to get involved in the debate over extending the reduced payroll tax and he’s asking them to tell members of Congress...
The Cain Train has come to a stop. Herman Cain suspended his faltering bid for the Republican presidential nomination on Saturday, throwing his staunchly conservative supporters...
Republican presidential candidate., Herman Cain White House hopeful Herman Cain, once polling at the top of the Republican field in the key state of Iowa, is...
Herman Cain. AP Photo/Isaac Brekken His campaign all but over, Herman Cain said Friday he would make an announcement Saturday in Atlanta about the future of...
U.S. President., Barack Obama. PHOTO/AP President Obama won plaudits from AIDS groups that have criticized him in the past with his announcement on Thursday that he...
He’s plotting an aggressive campaign schedule across several states, but Herman Cain (pictured), has begun to outline a possible exit strategy from the race for the...
One trip, two money pitches. President Barack Obama wants more money in the pockets of U.S. workers, and in his campaign treasury. With both goals in...
U.S. President.,Barack Obama President Barack Obama said Monday the United States stands ready to do its part to help Europe with its deepening debt crisis, even...
U.S. President., Barack Obama President Barack Obama is hosting European Union (E.U.) leaders for a summit Monday that is likely to focus on the European debt...
U.S.President Barack Obama shares a light moment with his daughters. President Barack Obama has pitched in to help small businesses get into the holiday shopping season....
Herman Cain. PHOTO/Isaac Brekken/AP When Herman Cain entered Atlanta’s Morehouse College in the fall of 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. had just delivered his “I Have...
President Barack Obama has telephoned 10 U.S. service members stationed abroad to wish them a happy Thanksgiving and praise their military service. Obama made the calls...
President Barack Obama is urging Americans facing tough economic times this Thanksgiving to believe in the nation’s ability to overcome its challenges. In a taped Thanksgiving...
President Barack Obama is nominating Marilyn Tavenner to succeed Donald M. Berwick as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Tavenner, who is the...
President Obama plunged into the heart of Republican primary land on Tuesday to deliver a direct challenge to Congress to act quickly to extend and expand...
GOP Presidential candidate, Herman Cain. PHOTO/Jim Cole – AP Herman Cain is inspiring on many levels. He overcame obstacles of poverty and racism early in life...
U.S. President., Barack Obama It is a full year before the Presidential election, and it is looking more likely that Barack Obama will be re-elected in...
U.S. President., Barack Obama A new Pew poll confirms a trend that’s been surfacing for a few weeks, with the constant changes in the GOP presidential...
When President Obama won Virginia in 2008, he was the first Democrat to do so since 1964. But with his approval rating now in the low-...
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) endorsed President Barack Obama’s re-election bid on Wednesday, saying it would deploy its formidable political machine earlier and on a...
President Barack Obama arrives in Australia. PHOTO/(ABC) President Barack Obama and Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Wednesday unveiled plans to deepen the U.S. military presence...
The first woman known to have filed a sexual harassment claim against GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain (pictured), while he ran a trade group shows no...
President Barack Obama turns from economic to security concerns in the Asia-Pacific region as he travels to Australia, finally making a long-delayed visit to the longtime...
Gloria and Herman Cain. PHOTO:David Goldman/Associated Press Herman Cain’s wife says the claims of sex harassment against the GOP presidential candidate don’t ring true because he...
In the Republican race for the presidential nomination, Newt Gingrich’s support continues to slowly grow, and he is now tied with Mitt Romney for second place,...
Herman Cain (pictured), prepared to meet with voters for the first time since sex harassment claims engulfed his upstart presidential bid, embarking on a tour of...
Karen Freeman-Wilson (pictured), has been elected as the first black, first female mayor of Gary, Indiana. Freeman-Wilson, a Democrat, garnered 86 percent of the vote, far...
Herman Cain (pictured), won a straw poll held during the South Dakota Republican Party’s State Dinner Saturday night. Voters were asked their preference between Cain, Minnesota...
(Reuters) – Allegations that Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain sexually harassed women in the 1990s have begun to damage his bid for the White House, a...
After a long, somewhat contentious summer, in which the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) seemed to fall out of love with President Barack Obama over the black...
Businessman Herman Cain (pictured), and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney are running nearly even atop the field of 2012 GOP presidential hopefuls, a new Washington Post-ABC...
President Barack Obama topped Forbes’ list of the world’s most powerful people in 2011, as the U.S. leader’s clout rose after the deaths of al Qaeda...
A new national poll out from Quinnipiac University shows an improving picture for President Obama, who has boosted his standing on a number of fronts. His...
Herman Cain A new poll puts Herman Cain (pictured above), ahead of Mitt Romney by seven percentage points in the GOP presidential race, reflecting a margin...
Herman Cain (pictured), has had one of the best fundraising days of his presidential campaign on Monday, raising US$250,000 in online donations despite reports that he...
The sexual harassment allegations engulfing the candidacy of Republican Herman Cain dominated American politics Tuesday as prominent conservative voices rallied to his side, saying he was...
President Barack Obama. File PHOTO President Barack Obama’s new slogan, “we can’t wait”, appears to be more than just rhetoric as the president increasingly relies on...
Herman Cain appears on “Face the Nation” October 30, 2011 in Washington. REUTERS/Chris Usher-CBS NEWS/Handout Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain kept his Washington campaign schedule Monday...
Retired pizza executive Herman Cain (pictured), continued to defy the odds Sunday, beating out his fellow Republican contenders in yet another presidential poll, this one from...
Republican primary voters have selected Herman Cain (pictured), as their likely nominee, surging him ahead of Mitt Romney by 4 points. Cain takes 24% to Romney’s...
The Republican-led House of Representatives passed a minor element of President Barack Obama’s jobs bill on Thursday as consensus remained elusive on other efforts to boost...
Herman Cain’s biggest claim to political fame is how his gains have come at the expense of two experienced political operators: former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney...
According to a new Quinnipiac University poll released early Wednesday, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, now trails former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain (pictured), for the...
President Barack Obama will announce a plan to allow people holding two kinds of student loans to reduce their interest rates by consolidating their debts into...
In the newest New York Times/CBS News heat check, Herman Cain (pictured), and Mitt Romney are still vying for the lead while Rick Perry’s base has...
Republican White House contender Herman Cain (pictured), his candidacy under increased scrutiny and heightened criticism as he has moved to the top of some national polls,...
President Barack Obama on Friday declared an end to the Iraq war, one of the longest and most divisive conflicts in U.S. history, announcing that all...
The death of Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi expands the growing string of security victories on President Barack Obama’s watch and reinforces his own style of dealing...
President Barack Obama teamed up with his popular and personable wife Wednesday on the final leg of a three-day bus trip, seeking to use her broad...
Polls suggest that Herman Cain (pictured), is one of the front-runners for the GOP presidential nomination. So why is it that most political insiders privately dismiss...
Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain (pictured), has cast himself as the outsider, the pizza magnate with real-world experience who will bring fresh ideas to the nation’s...
Barack Obama once contemplated what it would be like to take his two daughters to the National Mall to see a monument to Martin Luther King...
The Obama Campaign and Democratic National Committee (DNC) raised a combined nearly US$70 million for the 2012 campaign from July through September, the groups reported today...
President Barack Obama said Tuesday he’s prepared to break his jobs bill into pieces and try to move it that way, hours before the measure faced...
GOP candidate Herman Cain Herman Cain (pictured), has been an afterthought, on the receiving end of few questions from the moderators and virtually ignored by his...
Herman Cain Herman Cain holds a 20 point lead over Mitt Romney in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, a new poll revealed yesterday....
U.S. President Barack Obama President Barack Obama launched an onslaught against banks and Republicans on Thursday for working to block financial reform, using a populist tone...
Voters overwhelmingly re-elected Memphis mayor A C Wharton (pictured), over nine rivals Thursday, giving the Democrat a hefty mandate to continue another four years after a...
President Barack Obama says he has complete confidence in Attorney General Eric Holder (pictured), amid Republican accusations that Holder was aware months earlier than he’s acknowledged...
Anwar al-Awlaki President Barack Obama declared the killing of a fiery American-born cleric in Yemen a “major blow” to al-Qaida’s most active affiliate, and vowed a...
Herman Cain (pictured), says his victory in the Florida Republican straw poll was authentic and wasn’t a statement by voters against Texas Gov. Rick Perry. Cain...
Texas Gov. Rick Perry worked to convince Florida Republicans Saturday that he is the strongest contender for the party’s presidential nomination despite a shaky debate performance...
President Barack Obama took his newly combative message to the liberal West Coast on Sunday, aiming to re-energize faithful Democratic voters who have grown increasingly disenchanted...
A federal appeals panel took nine-time Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis (pictured), off a New Jersey state Senate ballot Thursday, finding he does not meet the...
Six Democratic mayors were joined by a Republican mayor in urging President Barack Obama and Congress to work together to create jobs and rebuild the nation’s...
As president, my top foreign policy priority would be to stand united with Israel. I will not allow the Arab Spring to be the fall of...
Pitching his jobs plan and his re-election, President Barack Obama attended two intimate $35,800-per-couple fundraisers Thursday, assuring donors that he will push Congress to pass his...
NEW YORK (AP) - The surprising results portend a perilous national environment for Obama as he prepares to seek re-election next year...
Herman Cain (pictured), the former Godfather’s Pizza CEO and current candidate for president of the United States, may not get the Republican nomination. But he remains...
WASHINGTON (AP) - More than 70 percent of Obama's confirmed judicial nominees during his first two years were "non-traditional," or nominees who were not white males...
theGRIO REPORT - In this election cycle, the Republicans' efforts to court the black vote is nowhere to be seen...
NBC NEWS - After the bruising debt-ceiling fight -- as well as Standard & Poor's subsequent downgrade of the nation's credit rating -- Obama's job approval...
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Johnny DuPree, 57, won a Democratic primary runoff and advances to the Nov. 8 general election to face Republican Lt. Gov. Phil...
