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Civil rights groups including the NAACP Legal Defense Fund are applauding New York State?s new law that will end the...

Abbey Lincoln, a jazz singer and songwriter known for her phrasing, emotion and uncompromising style, died Saturday in New York...

A defiant Maxine Waters disputed charges that she violated House ethics rules and released documents Friday that could undercut the...

Congressional ethics charges have tarnished Maxine Waters’ reputation in Washington. But in the struggling, mostly Hispanic and black neighborhoods she...

Former White House social secretary Desiree Rogers, who resigned after an uninvited couple crashed a state dinner, was named Tuesday...

Even after losing all those games and an embarrassing sexual harassment lawsuit, Isiah Thomas has a place with the New...

The former longtime mayor of Memphis, who unabashedly campaigned for voters to send him to Congress because he is black,...

Incumbents beware. Another lawmaker just bit the dust. Democratic Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick of Michigan lost her bid for an...

She’s not a political animal, Michelle Obama is the first to admit. Yet with an e-mail here and a kind...