Category: National

Newark Mayor Cory Booker will move on to New Jersey’s special Senate election as the Democratic nominee after winning his party’s primary.

Nearly 219,000 Americans are locked up in federal prisons. Even though, Blacks account for 13.1 percent of the United States population, Blacks take up 37 percent of the beds in federal prisons, according to Federal Bureau of Prisons.

The day after North Carolina’s Republican Gov. Pat McCrory signed a controversial voter ID bill into law, one of the U.S. senators from his state is seeking to challenge it.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The early favorite to win the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination walks a tightrope. Hillary Clinton has said she is in no hurry to decide whether she’ll seek the White House.

A Washington-based charity wrote in a letter to a federal judge Tuesday it was interested in hosting former Chicago Alderman Sandra Jackson “in her performance of community service” as part of a potential sentence for filing false tax returns.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Starting next year, Los Angeles and other California cities will be legally unable to cite drivers for parking at broken parking meters under a bill signed into law today.

Many Californians were startled awake Monday night and early Tuesday morning by Amber Alerts that made screeching noises on their cell phones. Some people even took to Twitter to complain.

The nation’s overall prison population in state and in federal institutions dropped for the third-consecutive year in 2012, but it was not necessarily good news for African Americans.

Never mind that the odds of winning Wednesday night’s $425 million Powerball jackpot are 1 in 175 million.