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March 12, 2010

GOP questions Boys & Girls Clubs’ executive salaries

WASHINGTON (AP) - A group of Republican senators raise issues that could jeopardize millions in federal funding for the national…
March 12, 2010

Obama delays Asia trip to deal with health care

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Obama has delayed his first international trip of the year to focus attention on the final…
March 11, 2010

Black Caucus wants more from Obama

VIDEO - Several caucus members feel strongly that the president is not listening to their concerns...
March 11, 2010

NY attorney general recuses self in Paterson probe

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Andrew Cuomo, who is widely expected to run for governor, had been criticized for investigating Paterson...
March 11, 2010

Obama gives $1.4 million Nobel prize to charity

WASHINGTON (AP) - Obama will give $200,000 to the Bush-Clinton Haiti Fund to help the country recover from the earthquake...
March 11, 2010

Once-revered SC lawmaker freezes to death alone

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - When Juanita Goggins became the first black woman elected to the South Carolina Legislature in 1974,…
March 11, 2010

Why African-Americans are more optimistic despite fewer jobs

OPINION - A new study shows that blacks are more economically optimistic than whites, with 36 percent stating that we…
March 11, 2010

Foreclosure rates up by smallest amount in years

WASHINGTON (AP) - The foreclosure crisis in the U.S. isn't over, but the pace of growth may finally be slowing…
March 10, 2010

Obama renews support for Haiti, warns that ‘dire’ crisis isn’t over

WASHINGTON (AP) - Obama said the challenge now is "to prevent a second disaster" with the start of the rainy…
March 10, 2010

Wife of Rep. Conyers sentenced to 37 months in prison

DETROIT (AP) - As guards cleared the packed courtroom, Monica Conyers yelled that she planned to appeal...
March 10, 2010

Senate passes jobless aid, business tax breaks

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate voted Wednesday to extend a host of soon-to-expire elements of last year's economic stimulus measure...
March 10, 2010

Despite setbacks, Obama remains more popular than Congress

WASHINGTON (AP) - Americans have come to detest Congress ever more deeply as it nears the end of a nasty…
March 10, 2010

Why some people want to make a monkey out of Michelle

OPINION - The long, sordid and savage history of racist stereotyping of African-Americans has been the stock in trade of…
March 10, 2010

Obama enters home stretch on health care reform

VIDEO - President Obama is making his closing arguments for a health care overhaul, pushing a new anti-fraud plan...
March 10, 2010

How Obama and Preval can reset US-Haiti relations

OPINION - There is an opportunity for Haitian leadership to renegotiate the nation's relationship with the world...