Messing With Texas: The Justice Department has asked a federal court to require Texas to get permission to change is voting laws. Speaking to a national convention of The Urban League, Atty. Gen. Eric Holder cited, the “pervasive voting-related discrimination …

National: President Obama jumped into the debate about the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin case saying, “There are very few African-American men in this country who haven’t had the experience of being followed when they were shopping in a department store. That …

Texas: The legislature has passed one of the most restrictive anti-abortion laws in thecountry. The bill bans abortion after 20 weeks and requires abortion clinics to have the same standards as surgical centers, effectively closing most abortion clinics in the …

 Air Crash: Two 16-year-old Chinese students died and 49 other people were seriously injured in the crash at San Francisco International yesterday morning. Most of the 307 passengers and crew escaped unharmed from the Asiana Airlines 777. The plane told …