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Ben Quayle, son of former Vice President Dan Quayle, wants voters in Arizona's 3rd Congressional District to send him to Congress so he can "knock the hell out of Washington." At least that's what he's telling them in a new campaign ad released Wednesday.

African American couples are more likely than other groups to share core religious beliefs and pray together in the home — factors that have been linked to greater happiness in marriages and relationships, according to a study released Tuesday.

ATLANTA — A Democratic U.S. Senate candidate from Georgia says he used to be suspicious of white people because he never spoke to one his age until his all-black high school consolidated with an all-white one when he was 18.

Melodi Dushane attacks McDonald’s employee. TOLEDO, Ohio — A security video from a McDonald’s in Ohio shows a woman punching two restaurant employees and smashing a drive-thru window because she couldn’t get Chicken McNuggets.

By the year 2042, according to an analysis by the Brookings Institution, the United States will be “majority-minority”—more than half the population will be made up of ethnic and racial groups currently in the minority: blacks and Hispanics.

The FBI and the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division are investigating possible civil rights violations in the case of a sheriff’s deputy who was captured on video beating a handcuffed inmate with a baton.

The House passed a bill Tuesday afternoon providing $26.1 billion to cash-strapped state governments, and preventing roughly 161,000 teachers and 158,000 public works employees from being laid off. The vote was 247-161.

Legs covered in skin-toned stockings, her skirt crisp to the knee, Patty Davis slips on the black heels she has shined for the day.

Former United States Senator Ted Stevens was killed in a plane crash in southwestern Alaska on Monday night, a former member of Mr. Stevens’s Congressional staff said on Tuesday.

A 70-year-old man was busted Friday for allegedly selling $20 bags of cocaine from his home, according to today’s editions of The Jersey Journal.

Minorities and women are still underrepresented in the boardrooms of Fortune 500 companies, lagging far behind the national population percentages, according to U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, a Democrat out of Hoboken.