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President Donald Trump speaks at a news conference at the White House on Thursday. (Oliver Contreras/AFP via Getty Images)

White House

Trump turns briefing on DCA disaster into attack on DEI, Democrats

President admits he has no evidence while pointing finger at Army Blackhawk pilot

By John T. Bennett
Posted January 30, 2025 at 2:49pm

Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, speaks at a campaign event in Washington Crossing, Pa., on Wednesday, flanked by former GOP officials.

Campaigns

Takeaways: Harris makes play for GOP voters, sits for feisty Fox News interview

By John T. Bennett
Posted October 16, 2024 at 8:00pm
Signs showing support for both Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump along a rural highway on Sept. 26 near Traverse City, Mich.

Campaigns

Harris, Biden sharpen attacks on Trump as GOP nominee courts women voters

By John T. Bennett
Posted October 16, 2024 at 1:20pm
Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, participates in an interview hosted by the National Association of Black Journalists, in Philadelphia on Tuesday. (Jim WatsonAFP via Getty Images)

Campaigns

On Black vote, Harris won’t assume ‘I’m going to have it because I’m Black’

By John T. Bennett
Posted September 17, 2024 at 4:22pm
Police clash with protesters after an order to disperse was given at UCLA Thursday morning.

Trump lurches into vacuum created by Biden’s days of silence on campus protests

By John T. Bennett
Posted May 3, 2024 at 9:58am
Chere Rexroat, acting architect of the Capitol, ousted five people from leadership roles in the months after her predecessor was booted out of the agency.

Discrimination complaints unfold in wake of Capitol agency scandal

By Chris Marquette
Posted January 26, 2024 at 4:53pm
The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington.

To honor Dr. King, GOP should honor what he really believed in

By Mary C. Curtis
Posted January 18, 2024 at 6:00am
Rep. Jonathan L. Jackson, D-Ill., introduced a bill that would discipline Agriculture Department employees found to have engaged in discriminatory actions.

Freshman Jackson offers bill to boost USDA civil rights efforts

By Ellyn Ferguson
Posted December 4, 2023 at 11:49am
John Boyd Jr., president of the National Black Farmers Association, was one of four plaintiffs in the suit filed by civil rights lawyer Ben Crump.

Civil rights lawyer Crump sues US over repealed aid to Black farmers

By Ellyn Ferguson
Posted October 12, 2022 at 5:20pm
A congressional commission has proposed changing the name of Fort Hood in Texas, which now honors a Confederate general, for Richard Cavazos, the first Hispanic four-star general.

Commission proposes new names for bases that now honor Confederates

By Mark Satter
Posted May 24, 2022 at 6:55pm