New Smithsonian museum chronicling black history opens
By JESSE J. HOLLAND and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Centuries of struggles and strife, decades of planning and pain, and years of hoping for a place that African-American history can call home…
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Sheriff: Cop who killed Kansas gunman a ‘tremendous hero’
By ROXANA HEGEMAN and MARIA FISHER A man who stormed into a Kansas factory where he worked and shot 15 people, killing three, had just been served with a protective…
Bid to shut Guantanamo roils Pentagon, White House, Congress
By LOLITA C. BALDOR The Obama administration’s struggling quest to close the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is mired in state and federal politics. Frustrated White House and…
Paul won’t spell out abortion ban exceptions
By PHILIP ELLIOTT Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, a newly declared Republican presidential candidate, is dodging a central question about abortion: What exceptions, if any, should be made if the procedure…
EPA promotes global warming proposal to governors
By IVAN MORENO EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy delivers a keynote speech during the annual Western Governors’ Association Meeting, at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, Tuesday, June 10, 2014. The…
SWEEPING ANTI-ABORTION BILL GOES TO KANSAS GOV.
By JOHN HANNA Kansas House Speaker Ray Merrick, right, a Stilwell Republican, watches the chamber’s electronic tally board as it approves a sweeping anti-abortion bill, Friday, April 5, 2013, at…