The Supreme Court limited the reach of the Voting Rights Act on Monday, a decision that could make it harder for some minority candidates to win election when voting districts are redrawn.
U.S. citizens with family in Cuba will be able to visit the island nation more often and stay as long as they like under legislation Congress passed Tuesday night.
The government's report Friday of an 8.1 percent unemployment rate equals the jobless number that the Obama administration has projected for the entire year.
Erick Holder, the nation's first black attorney general, and the daughter of former segregationist Alabama governor, George C. Wallace, celebrated the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march Sunday.
