ATLANTA (CNN) -- Georgia's Supreme Court halted Monday evening's scheduled execution of a convicted murderer on procedural grounds, but rejected a plea to spare him due to mental retardation.
(CNN) -- The White House announced on Thursday that it would grant seven additional waivers from restrictive provisions of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The ranks of America's poor are on track to climb to levels unseen in nearly half a century, erasing gains from the war on poverty in the 1960s amid a weak economy and fraying government safety net.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Houston pastor Timothy W. Sloan has felt for years that he needed to talk about HIV and AIDS with his congregation.
(CNN) -- As soon as counterterrorism and law enforcement officials got word of the shootings in Aurora, Colorado, an interagency process to search for a possible terrorism link was set in motion.
(CNN) -- Only one in 500 Americans is a black gay or bisexual male, but black men who have sex with men (MSM) account for one in four new HIV infections in the United States, according to a new report by the Black AIDS Institute (BAI).
SAN FRANCISCO – When Eunice Kim came to City College of San Francisco in 2007, she was looking for a way up and out of the spiraling travel industry that she'd been working in for nearly 10 years.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- One of the oldest U.S. civil rights groups says President Barack Obama may have a tougher time winning at least three battleground states in November if black voter turnout falls at least 5 percentage points below the record levels that helped to put him in the White House.
Nick Smith was shuttled from high school to high school in recent years, whenever a relative died or was shot.
SAN FRANCISCO--Janet Zamudio, a working mother of modest means, says the paid family leave she took soon after her third child, Maya, was born helped her feel "valued as a mother, as well as valued by the state" of California.