Politics

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Updated Wednesday, October 30, 2013 at 10:10 a.m., ET WASHINGTON (AP) — Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says she’s sorry consumers have wasted so much time dealing with technical problems on the Obama administration’s health insurance website. Sebelius told the House Energy and Commerce Committee she apologizes for access problems that have been […]

Updated November 14, 2013: See Joe Morton (pictured above), who plays “Scandal” character Rowan Pope, head of the all-powerful spy organization, B-613, today on NewsOne Now with Roland Martin. Earlier: News that the U.S. has been spying on foreign leaders has dominated headlines this week. Could it really be that President Obama didn’t know about the surveillance? […]

First lady Michelle Obama made her case for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and slammed the GOP for the government shutdown on Friday during a Women’s Leadership Forum Conference in Washington, D.C., reports Politico.com.  “When a small group of folks in Congress shuts down our government to try to shut down Obamacare, and we watch as […]

After delivering racist remarks on “The Daily Show” Wednesday night, North Carolina Republican official and conservative activist Don Yelton has agreed to step down from his position as the GOP’s precinct chairman of Buncombe County. In an astounding display of boldness, Yelton stood by his bigoted comments a day later and claims he said worse […]

Community Heroes: an in-depth series on the lives and impact of people giving back to our global communities. Alex Rias Age: 28 Place of Residence: Queens, N.Y. Why he is a Community Hero: As the Executive Director of the Black, Latino and Asian Caucus of the New York City Council, Rias serves as a bridge between […]

  UPDATE: 6:00 PM EST, 10/23/2013 White House press secretary Jay Carney on Wednesday denied Sen. Dick Durbin‘s (D-Ill) story that a GOP leader told President Barack Obama “I cannot even stand to look at you” during intense negotiations over the government shutdown. “It did not happen,” Carney said. House Republicans also denied Durbin’s statements, […]

Now that President Obama has been able to beat back the GOP’s attempt to derail the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare), he’s tackling the elephant in the room: the sign-up process is full of glitches. Monday, the president will tell the nation what the plan is to get things back on track. Given that the […]

In an obnoxious quest to out “maverick” Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is now urging conservative voters to hold Republicans “accountable” for caving and derailing efforts to defund the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), reports TalkingPointsMemo.com. RELATED: Sen. John McCain To Fox News: GOP To Blame For Gov’t Shutdown [VIDEO] During an interview with […]

After heightened speculation that President Barack Obama was set to select New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly for Secretary of Department of Homeland Security, he did an unexpected pivot and tapped former Pentagon lawyer and unapologetic drone-supporter Jeh Johnson, 56, for the post, reports Democracy Now. Johnson, a highly accomplished layer who served as General Counsel […]

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You would think all members of the Republican Party, a group of politicos that vows to be patriotic and laments anyone who doesn’t stand for good ol’ American values, would want this two-week shutdown fiasco to end, right? Nope. Eighteen Senators from the Good Ol’ Party voted against the Senate bill to end the government […]