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Flags outside the Massachusetts State House flew at half-staff Wednesday, while inside a moment of silence was held in the chambers in remembrance of longtime Congressman Barney Frank. Frank, an ...

The ballot for the California gubernatorial primary election is a whopping 61 names long. There are the candidates with a real chance to win, such as Democrat billionaire Tom Steyer and Republican ...

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The contributing writer Peter Slevin met with Barack Obama at the new Obama Presidential Center, which opens next month, in Chicago, and asked him the question on a lot of Democrats’ minds: Where is ...

Still not sure who you’re voting for in the California governor’s race? Prepare to be overwhelmed. Voters opening up their ballots will find 61 candidates to choose from for the state’s highest office ...

A photo of a sunglasses-clad President Barack Obama casually chatting up then-Cuban President Raúl Castro at a 2016 baseball game resurfaced on social media after the U.S. indicted Castro on May 20.

A California gubernatorial candidate is drawing attention for sharing a name with the nation’s first Black president. Barack Denzel Obama Shaw of Alameda, California, is among the 61 candidates ...

In Maggie O’Farrell’s “Land,” an ecstatic father informs his son that “myth is fact and fact is myth, and both are embodied in the land itself.” What follows is a soaring, visionary narrative that ...

One Bay Area resident is hoping to make a name for himself in California’s governor’s race, and his name is Barack Obama. Alameda resident Barack Denzel Obama Shaw, 56, is one of several uniquely ...