Jesse Jackson, Civil Rights Leader Who Sought the Presidency, Dies at 84,” by NYT’s Peter Applebome: “The Rev. Jesse Jackson, whose impassioned oratory and populist vision of a ‘rainbow coalition’ of ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a civil rights activist known for his rousing oratory who became the first African American candidate to have a plausible path to winning the presidency, has died. He was 84.

To open a series of essays about U.S. presidents, George W. Bush pays tribute to George Washington, who “ensured America ...

Timing is everything, and it's why Bill Daley and Ray LaHood are suspending an ambitious attempt to take some of the politics ...

We may not know much about the elusive former first daughter, Sasha Obama, but the few things we do know shed some light on ...

The Trump administration has moved to kill the climate policy finding that has underpinned federal greenhouse gas rules for more than a decade, signaling a direct attack on how Washington treats ...

WASHINGTON – The Justice Department is preparing grand jury subpoenas demanding documents from top Obama administration officials whom President Donald Trump believes unfairly tried to implicate him ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former President Barack Obama sounded a warning on Wednesday that “the tactics being deployed by federal agents in Minnesota” ...

Former President Barack Obama holds an 11-point lead over President Donald Trump in a hypothetical 2028 matchup, according to a new poll. Neither man is constitutionally eligible to run for president.

During the Obama administration, Homan held senior leadership roles in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He first served as an assistant director for Enforcement and Removal Operations, a ...

Two Democratic former presidents on Sunday condemned the scenes in Minnesota after Alex Pretti was killed this weekend, framing the tragedy as a pivotal moment that calls Americans to "speak up" and ...