An emotional President Obama announced new executive actions on gun control from the White House Tuesday. Citing the inability of Congress to take action and blocking what he termed as “commonsense reforms supported by the vast majority of the American…
President Obama, on the 50th anniversary of Voting Rights Act, renewed a call for new, broader legislation and urged people to exercise their hard-won voting rights instead of staying home on election days. Obama said that in the half-century since…
After one of the nation’s most protracted cabinet-level confirmation delays, the Senate Thursday approved Loretta E. Lynch to be attorney general. She is the first African American woman to hold the position. Lynch, the United States attorney for the Eastern…
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — Under pressure from Republicans, Loretta Lynch promised a fresh relationship with law enforcement and with Congress on Wednesday at confirmation hearings to become the nation’s first female Black attorney general. “I pledge to all of you…
Last updated on December 19th, 2014 at 10:54 amWASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA) – In what may be the first test of the GOP-controlled, United States Senate’s willingness to work with the White House, President Barack Obama nominated United States Attorney Loretta…
