In this Nov. 6, 2012 file photo, voters wait in line at a polling place located inside a shopping mall on Election Day, in Austin, Texas. Attorney General Eric Holder says Texas is the first place that he will intervene to defend against what he calls attacks on the voting rights of minorities, but it is also the only state where the federal government has a clear opportunity to get involved, experts say. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File) AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Stricter voter identification laws, redrawn political maps fortifying Republican majorities, reducing early voting: States with GOP strongholds intensified these efforts under President Barack Obama and proclaimed victory at the Supreme Court. Now the Obama administration is signaling plans to drag some of these mostly Southern states with histories of minority discrimination into rematches after the high court knocked down a major piece of the Voting Rights Act.
In this June 6, 2013, photo, Reem Dahir takes a peek at fiancee Abraham Ismail's laptop as they chat at a Starbucks cafe in Raleigh, N.C. The young couple understands the need for surveillance to prevent terrorist attacks, but they worry the government went too far by gathering secreting gathering phone data from millions of Americans. (AP Photo/Allen Breed) by Adam Geller NEW YORK (AP) — For more than a decade now, Americans have made peace with the uneasy knowledge that someone — government, business or both — might be watching.
President Barack Obama announces his nominee for the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Rep. Mel Watt, D-N.C., Wednesday, May 1, in the State Dining of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) WASHINGTON (AP) —President Barack Obama on Wednesday tapped a veteran Democratic congressman to lead the Federal Housing Finance Agency and a top fundraiser and former lobbyist to head up the Federal Communications Commission.
ANTHONY FOXX (Photo/AnthonyFoxx.com) (CNN) -- President Barack Obama will tap Anthony Foxx, the mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, on Monday to become his next transportation secretary, a White House official with knowledge of his decision said Sunday.
HELP WANTED-- This Friday, March 29, 2013 file photo shows a help wanted sign at a barber shop in Richmond, Va. U.S. employers added just 88,000 jobs in March, the fewest in nine months and a sharp retreat after a period of strong hiring. Many discouraged Americans are giving up the job hunt for school, retirement and disability. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File) by Jesse Washington and Paul Wiseman WASHINGTON (AP) — After a full year of fruitless job hunting, Natasha Baebler just gave up.
ROLAND MARTIN by Roland Martin (CNN) -- If you listen to the groupthink echo-chamber know-it-alls in Washington, the Republican Party has been decimated,...
OFF-WHITE AMERICA--Morning commuters fill the platform as they exit a train in New York's Times Square subway station. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) by Hope Yen Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Welcome to the new off-White America.
FINAL HOURS--This Jan. 18 photo provided by the family shows Christopher Cotton at his sister's home in Buffalo, N.Y. A few hours after this photo was made, just past 1 a.m., on Jan. 19, his body was found, slumped in the driver's seat of a borrowed car, all the windows up and doors locked. (AP Photo/Jim Swiezy) by Adam Geller and David Crary AP National Writers (AP)--It was just past 1 a.m. when they found Christopher Cotton's body, slumped in the driver's seat at a Buffalo, N.Y., intersection, shot dead by an assailant who left all the car's windows up, the doors locked.
FACING PATERNITY SUIT--Charlotte Bobcats owner Michael Jordan looks on from courtside during an NBA basketball game between the Charlotte Bobcats and the Atlanta Hawks in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File) by Phillip Lucas ATLANTA (AP) — An Atlanta woman has filed a lawsuit saying basketball Hall of Famer and Charlotte Bobcats owner Michael Jordan is the father of her 16-year-old son.
MEETING WITH REPORTERS--Rev. Al Sharpton, right, and Martin Luther King III meet with reporters outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Feb. 27, after arguments in the Shelby County, Ala., v. Holder voting rights case. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) by Mark Sherman Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court's conservative justices voiced deep skepticism Wednesday about a section of a landmark civil rights law that has helped millions of Americans exercise their right to vote.
