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The president's party usually loses in off-year elections like in 2018.

White House Chief of Staff John Kelly didn’t tell the truth when he tried to slander Florida Rep. Frederica Wilson, an old video has shown.

The White House chief of staff seemingly confirmed that the president did callously tell a grieving widow that her soldier husband “knew what he had signed up for” before he died in action.

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted to support the nomination of Thomas Farr for district judge--despite opposition from civil rights groups and Black lawmakers.

Loud chants of “Black Lives Matter’ broke out during an event planned by renowned racist and White nationalist Richard Spencer on the University of Florida’s main campus.

The mother of Trayvon Martin has made a passionate plea for the nation’s largest gun lobby to stop offering so-called “murder insurance” for people who shoot others.

Racial tension is high among Virginia Democrats because the gubernatorial candidate omitted the Black candidate for lieutenant governor from campaign fliers.

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Trump’s controversial travel ban was struck down again by a federal judge in Hawaii Tuesday for "discriminating on the basis of nationality."

The Florida congresswoman who accused the president of callously telling the widow of a fallen soldier, “He knew what he was signing up for,” is just the latest example of Donald Trump having a nasty, public dispute with a powerful Black woman.

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President Donald Trump once made a sick joke about Mike Pence wanting to "hang" gay people, Jane Meyer writes in a blistering new piece for The New Yorker.

The Justice Department has assigned a federal hate crimes lawyer to help prosecute a man charged with murdering a transgender student in Iowa.

New Orleans will have its first woman mayor, and both candidates in the final election round are African Americans.