State of the Union: Obama to confront the GOP
ANALYSIS - President Obama is likely to repeat the aggressive and decidedly liberal tone of his inaugural address last month, looking less to negotiate with Republicans...
Obama signs bill averting government default
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama has signed into law a bill raising the government's borrowing limit, averting a default and delaying the next clash over the nation's debt until later this year...
theGrio's 100: Nina Turner, taking on voter suppression in Ohio
theGRIO'S 100 - The Ohio state senator emerged as one of the loudest voices in the country against controversial voting laws advanced by Republicans in her state...
Obama on immigration reform: 'Now is the time'
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Declaring 'now is the time' to fix broken immigration laws, President Barack Obama on Tuesday heralded a rare show of bipartisanship between the White House and Senate lawmakers...
NAACP slams Virginia plan to split electoral vote
theGRIO REPORT - Since Virginia serves as a crucial and hard-fought swing state, with a growing and influential minority voting population, the move is being greeting with considerable apprehension...
White House, senators starting push on immigration
WASHINGTON (AP) -The White House and a bipartisan group of senators will launch separate efforts next week to jumpstart negotiations to overhaul the immigration system, an issue that has languished in Washington for years...
House votes to defuse debt limit crisis
WASHINGTON (AP) - The House overwhelmingly passed a bill Wednesday to permit the government to borrow enough money to avoid a first-time default for at least four months...
Democrats try again to extend Violence Against Women Act
WASHINGTON (AP) - Congressional Democrats have renewed their push to revive the key federal program that protects women against domestic violence..
On debt ceiling, Obama forces Republicans to blink
ANALYSIS - President Obama has forced congressional Republicans to abandon long-held positions and accept Obama's in a major fiscal debate for the second time in less a month...
NJ senator compares Cory Booker to child who needs a spanking
theGRIO REPORT - The awkward tension between incumbent New Jersey senator Frank Lautenberg and the upstart Newark mayor, Cory Booker, who wants to take his seat has reached a fever pitch...
