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CHICAGO (AP) -- As Democrats debate how to rebuild a winning coalition to take back power in Washington, many political veterans remember when the party was similarly riven -- and in time remade -- by the insurgent campaign of the late Rev. Jesse Jackson.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- An evening rally to boost Democratic turnout for Texas' rapidly approaching primary featured plenty of the state party's political star power, but it was someone who won't be on a ballot who drew the most attention.
When the Rev. Jesse Jackson announced his second presidential bid in 1988 in Pittsburgh, he saw the campaign as a chance for the country to realize its highest ideals.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Congressional Black Caucus and major civil rights groups on Tuesday marked Black History Month by relaunching a national plan to mobilize against what they say are the Trump administration's efforts to weaken legal protections for minority communities.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump received rare blowback from Republican lawmakers over a video posted to social media that included a racist image of former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, depicted as primates.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Aggressive immigration enforcement in Minnesota, which resulted in the shooting deaths of two U.S. citizens by federal agents, and this week's FBI search of the election office in Georgia's most populous county have Democratic election officials concerned about what could be in store for this fall's midterm elections.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Eleanor Holmes Norton, the 18-term delegate for the District of Columbia in Congress and a veteran of the Civil Rights Movement, has filed paperwork to end her campaign for reelection, likely closing out a decades-long career in public service.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democrats had planned to campaign in the midterm elections on affordability and health care, two issues where Americans are particularly unhappy with President Donald Trump.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democrats had planned to campaign in the midterm elections on affordability and health care, two issues where Americans are particularly unhappy with President Donald Trump.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democrats had planned to campaign in the midterm elections on affordability and health care, two issues where Americans are particularly unhappy with President Donald Trump.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- More than a year before an American military operation deposed Nicolas Maduro, a senior aide to President Donald Trump argued that the Venezuelan leader had been dispatching gang members into the United States.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Democratic National Committee will spend millions of dollars to cement control of voter registration efforts that have traditionally been entrusted to nonprofit advocacy groups and individual political campaigns, a shift that party leaders hope will increase their chances in this year's midterm elections.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Erika Kirk, widow of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk and the organization's new leader, endorsed a potential presidential bid by Vice President JD Vance on the opening night of the conservative youth group's annual conference.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The president of a prominent Republican-aligned think tank defended conservative media personality Tucker Carlson after he offered a platform to a far-right activist known for pushing white nationalist and antisemitic views.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Trump administration has restored a memorial to a Confederate general in Washington, D.C. that demonstrators took down during racial justice protests in the summer of 2020, part of a broader effort by the president to reshape the way the country's history is told.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- When he was elected the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee in June, Rep. Robert Garcia at once gained a powerful perch and a pressing problem.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Republicans are preparing to release a report on the findings of their investigation into former President Joe Biden and what they allege is potential misuse of the presidential autopen during his term.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Congressional Black Caucus kicked off its annual legislative conference this week, which has been upended by President Donald Trump's second term and by the presence of National Guard patrols near the conference's venue.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump's vow to fire Lisa Cook, an economist who is the first Black woman to serve on the Federal Reserve's board of governors, kicked off another tense debate and likely legal battle over a major institution's independence.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump has taken control of the District of Columbia's law enforcement and ordered National Guard troops to deploy onto the streets of the nation's capital, arguing the extraordinary moves are in response to an urgent public safety crisis.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump has taken control of the District of Columbia's law enforcement and ordered National Guard troops to deploy onto the streets of the nation's capital, arguing the extraordinary moves are in response to an urgent public safety crisis.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump has taken control of the District of Columbia's law enforcement and ordered National Guard troops to deploy onto the streets of the nation's capital, arguing the extraordinary moves are in response to an urgent public safety crisis.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Democrats reintroduced a bill Tuesday to restore and expand protections enshrined in the Voting Rights Act of 1965, their latest long-shot attempt to revive the landmark law just days before its 60th anniversary and at a time of renewed debate over the future administration of American elections.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A former senior aide to Jill Biden on Wednesday became the second person to invoke the Fifth Amendment and decline to answer questions from House Republicans who are investigating President Joe Biden's mental state and use of the autopen while in office.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rep. Robert Garcia was elected the top Democrat on the powerful House Oversight Committee on Tuesday, charting a new direction for the party's opposition to congressional Republicans and President Donald Trump's administration.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House overwhelmingly passed bipartisan legislation Thursday that would solidify federal policies cracking down on the synthetic opioid fentanyl and its analogs in a bid by lawmakers to combat the nation's opioid epidemic.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House Oversight Committee is requesting interviews with members of former President Joe Biden's innermost circle as Republicans ramp up their investigation into the final moves of the Biden administration.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and executives from Microsoft and chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices testified on Capitol Hill about the biggest opportunities, risks and needs facing an industry which lawmakers and technologists agree could fundamentally transform global business, culture and geopolitics.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Four House Democratic lawmakers have traveled to El Salvador to call attention to the plight of a man the Trump administration deported to a Salvadoran prison and has refused to help return -- even after the Supreme Court ruled that it was the government's duty to do so.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- For weeks, Democratic lawmakers have met with and mimicked figures they believe may offer them a path back to power in Washington: online influencers and content creators.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- For weeks, Democratic lawmakers have met with and mimicked figures they believe may offer them a path back to power in Washington: online influencers and content creators.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democrats have been sniping at each other in public since Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer helped pass a Republican spending bill that prevented a government shutdown. But the divisions in their party hardly began there.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- When the Senate unanimously confirmed Gen. CQ Brown Jr. as Air Force chief of staff in 2020, President Donald Trump hailed a "historic day for America!" on social media and said he was "Excited to work even more closely with Gen. Brown, who is a Patriot and Great Leader!"
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A bipartisan duo in the the U.S. House is proposing legislation to ban the Chinese artificial intelligence app DeepSeek from federal devices, similar to the policy already in place for the popular social media platform TikTok.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scott Turner was confirmed Wednesday as the housing secretary, a role central to President Donald Trump's domestic agenda at a time when most Americans say the cost of living around necessities are a top concern.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump's attack on diversity, equity and inclusion programs have led military and government agencies -- along with some private companies -- to roll back observances of diversity and celebrations of Black History Month, which goes through February.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed Doug Collins as secretary of veterans affairs, putting the former congressman and Iraq War veteran at the helm of a department that provides crucial care to America's veterans.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Delivering his first address as a reinaugurated president, Donald Trump spoke directly to communities that had historically shunned his party.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- When President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in as president of the United States inside the Capitol's rotunda, he will do so facing a bust of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on the federal holiday commemorating King's legacy.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Democrats failed Wednesday to confirm a Democratic member of the National Labor Relations Board after independent Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema opposed the nomination, thwarting their hopes of locking in a majority at the federal agency for the first two years of President-elect Donald Trump's term.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- For years, Pat Verhaeghe didn't think highly of Donald Trump as a leader.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration is set to be less diverse than President Joe Biden's administration, but several people of color and women appear likely to serve in top roles.
ERIE, Pa. (AP) -- It wasn't much when he bought it, but Michael Hooks has made the old garage his own haven. And the city of Erie knows it. Half a dozen cars honk as they pass by one October afternoon, the people hanging out of car windows to wave hello at him.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Cori Bush went from helping to lead an informal movement for racial justice to winning two terms as a congresswoman from Missouri, with an office decorated with photographs of families who lost loved ones to police violence. One is of Michael Brown.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Cori Bush went from helping to lead an informal movement for racial justice to winning two terms as a congresswoman from Missouri, with an office decorated with photographs of families who lost loved ones to police violence. One picture is of Michael Brown.
LIVONIA, Mich. (AP) -- Standing before hundreds of people in a suburban Detroit chapel, at an event organized by Donald Trump's campaign, Marlin J. Reed declared that God had called on them to vote for the former president.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former first lady Michelle Obama will headline a rally in Atlanta a week before the Nov. 5 election alongside celebrities and civic leaders focusing on engaging younger and first-time voters, as well as voters of color.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Barack Obama had frank words for Black men who may be considering sitting out the election.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Barack Obama had frank words for Black men who may be considering sitting out the election.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The first and only vice presidential debate between Ohio Senator JD Vance and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz featured an often orderly, policy-focused and even civil dialogue between the two men seeking to serve as the next president's second in command.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The first meeting between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump featured some sharp comments and memorable moments.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- At first glance, there's little that a 78-year-old former president and a 23-year-old internet personality might have in common.
CHICAGO (AP) -- The Democratic National Convention will kick off its fourth and final night on Thursday.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Every Monday evening, the Andrew and Walter Young Family YMCA basement becomes a sanctuary for men who, local leaders say, have too often been denied one.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump's invitation to address the National Association of Black Journalists has sparked an intense debate within the organization and a flurry of arguments online.
JOHNS CREEK, Ga. (AP) -- A drive out to Atlanta's sprawling suburbs passes the cultural centers, schools and houses of worship that opened as this became the nation's sixth-largest metropolitan area.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Congressional Black Caucus prides itself on its authority among Democrats and its influence with President Joe Biden in particular. So far, only one of its roughly 60 members have joined calls for Biden to drop his reelection bid due to concerns over his age and ability to win.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump warned during his debate with Joe Biden that migrants were taking "Black jobs" and "Hispanic jobs" from Americans, angering critics who called the former president's performance a racist appeal to his white conservative base.