CNN's Nick Parker looks at the organization and infrastructure of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Politicians fought Sunday to cast the ongoing Wall Street protests in a very different light, with two GOP presidential candidates calling them "class warfare" and prominent Democrats expressing support for the protesters' message.
Rep. Charles Rangel shares what he knows from talking to the Occupy Wall Street protesters.
The human rights group Amnesty International renewed its call for clemency Wednesday for a man on Georgia's death row, citing continued doubts about his guilt.
The Rev. Maurice Ouellet remembers the day vividly: March 7, 1965. As he walked out of church after serving Sunday Mass, he encountered silence. Then sirens.
Casey Hayden knows something about hate.
The 112th House of Representatives reads the U.S. Constitution, a symbolic nod to the conservative Tea Party freshmen.
Members of the new Republican-led House of Representatives took part Thursday in an unusual event: a reading of the U.S. Constitution on the floor of the chamber.
The House ethics committee voted 9-1 on Thursday to recommend censure for Rep. Charles Rangel, D-New York, in response to multiple rules violations committed by the 20-term congressman.
The House ethics committee's chief counsel recommends Charlie Rangel be censured by the full House of Representatives.
Former President George H.W. Bush is one of 15 individuals who will receive America's highest civilian honor early next year, the White House announced Wednesday.
A federal appeals court panel deflected a condemned Georgia inmate's appeal of a ruling that denied him a new trial in a decades-old murder case, saying Friday that the appeal should have gone to the U.S. Supreme Court instead.
It was February, 1986. In Manila, President Ferdinand Marcos had just rigged an election that almost all independent observers believed had been won by opposition candidate Corazon Aquino. Protests were spreading. The country was in crisis.
CNN remembers CNN journalist John Lewis, who covered Asia for more than a decade.
Nationally syndicated radio host Tom Joyner raised his hand in victory.
Nationally syndicated radio host Tom Joyner raised his hand in victory.
Tom Joyner expresses his joy about his great uncles being pardoned nearly 100 years after they were wrongly executed.
Georgia Rep. John Lewis joins Nicole Lapin to talk about Sen. Kennedy's legacy as a civil rights leader.
One year before the day of his death, an ailing Sen. Ted Kennedy electrified a crowd of thousands at the Democratic National Convention.
The Supreme Court has granted a condemned Georgia inmate's request that his execution be delayed as he attempts to prove his innocence.
The U.S. Supreme Court delayed a decision on whether to accept an appeal from a Georgia death row inmate who has gained international support for his claims of innocence in the the murder of a Savannah police officer two decades ago.
President Obama led a chorus of "Happy Birthday" for Sen. Ted Kennedy on Sunday night at the Kennedy Center, topping off a celebration of the senator's 77th birthday that featured a crowd of celebrities and political heavyweights.
President Obama helps Sen. Ted Kennedy celebrate a belated birthday at the Kennedy Center.
Sen. John McCain played offense against Sen. Barack Obama during much of the final presidential debate as he challenged his rival on his policies, judgment and character.
Sen. John McCain said Monday that Rep. John Lewis' controversial remarks were "so disturbing" that they "stopped me in my tracks."
CNN's Dana Bash sits down with Sen. John McCain to discuss the presidential race.
Georgia Rep. John Lewis said Saturday that controversial remarks he made comparing the feeling at recent Republican rallies to those of segregationist George Wallace were misinterpreted.
After running ads that tie Barack Obama to a domestic terrorist, John McCain is toning it down. Dana Bash reports.
Sen. John McCain called a statement by a Georgia congressman Saturday, which compared the feeling at recent Republican rallies to those of segregationist George Wallace, "a brazen and baseless attack."
Three people with the same name find themselves on the terror watch list. CNN's Drew Griffin reports.
James Robinson is a retired Air National Guard brigadier general and a commercial pilot for a major airline who flies passenger planes around the country.
A House representative said Thursday she is requesting an investigation after learning a CNN reporter was put on the federal no-fly list shortly after his investigation of the Transportation Security Administration.
Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee asks why a CNN reporter was added to the terror watch list.
Race has always been the wild card in American politics. Barack Obama reshuffles the deck.
CNN's Brian Todd discusses the impact superdelegates could have on the presidential race.
The drawn out Democratic presidential race is producing "negative dividends in terms of strife within the party," said a key Senate supporter of Sen. Hillary Clinton's White House bid.
Hollywood has hijacked mixed martial arts. Think Karate Kid meets Bring it On (you know, that cheerleading movie).
Sen. John McCain launched his week-long journey to poverty-stricken areas of the nation Monday with language that would have been at home in any Democratic stump speech.
Sen. John McCain spent his day in Alabama, praying with locals and then taking command of a ferry.
Strong winds and possible tornadoes roared across southern Mississippi on Friday, shredding roofs and slamming trees and power poles into homes and businesses.
At least one tornado ripped through central Arkansas Thursday evening, savaging a mobile home park and sending National Weather Service forecasters into a bunker as the storm roared overhead.
A possible tornado touched down Thursday near Little Rock, Arkansas causing major damage.
Pulpit politics
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CNN's Rick Sanchez talks with his panel about the latest in the controversy surrounding Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
Civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis suggested Sunday the controversy over Sen. Barack Obama's former pastor has reignited a conversation about race that could ultimately be beneficial for the country.
A late winter snow coats the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
The Race Factorupdated: Fri Feb 29 2008 18:38:00
Headline News' Chuck Roberts talks to two experts on how race may impact the 2008 presidential race.
With the Democratic race extremely tight, the party's superdelegates -- the 800 or so unpledged elected officials and party members -- are facing growing racial pressure, and even threats, to back Sen. Barack Obama.
Georgia Rep. John Lewis, who backed Hillary Clinton in his state's February 5 Democratic presidential primary, announced Wednesday he is switching his support to Barack Obama to reflect the will of his constituents.
A man named as a suspect in the fatal shooting of a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, police officer last week was captured at a shelter in Miami, Florida, on Tuesday, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Sylvester Johnson said at a news conference.
CNN's Todd Benjamin talks to Sir Stuart Hampson, the former chairman of the John Lewis Partnership.
A Georgia man convicted of killing a police officer won a reprieve a day before his scheduled execution, after his lawyers argued that several witnesses had recanted
Clemency for death row inmate?
In recent months, ABC News-Washington Post polls showed Sen. Hillary Clinton running 40 points higher than Sen. Barack Obama among blacks voters asked to name their preference in the Democratic primary.
Adventure was the goal when John and Karen Lewis liquidated their assets to buy a large tract of Costa Rican rainforest in 1990.
A paper license tag, a salad and stories that didn't make sense pricked the suspicions of a state trooper who stopped the car of a wanted fugitive polygamist in Las Vegas.
Nevada state troopers found one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, along with wigs, cell phones, laptop computers and more than $54,000 in cash, on a highway north of Las Vegas, authorities said Monday.
February is Black History Month. How much do you know about the ways in which African-Americans have shaped U.S. history? Take this quiz to find out.
Watching Eric Rudolph be sentenced to life in prison this week for his terror bombings, I wondered whether he and his followers represent the future of domestic terrorism or the past.
Violent animal rights extremists and eco-terrorists now pose one of the most serious terrorism threats to the nation, top federal law enforcement officials say.
No one can make political gains out of the Terri Schiavo case because any move that looks political is instantly discredited.
Queen Elizabeth II seems to have started a trend by deciding to miss the civil wedding of her son Prince Charles to Camilla Parker Bowles.
Sen. Edward Kennedy is not alone.
South Korean officials are due to get a first hand report on North Korea's main nuclear facility from an unofficial U.S. delegation that visited the Yongbyon complex.
North Korea says it showed its "nuclear deterrent" to an unofficial U.S. delegation that visited that country's Yongbyon nuclear complex.
A U.S. delegation returning from North Korea says it has toured the key Yongbyon nuclear complex.
For the first time since North Korea expelled U.N. monitors in late 2002, the country might welcome a U.S. delegation next week to visit its Yongbyon nuclear facility, which the United States suspects is being used for nuclear weapons production.
You can't blame Douglas Fraser for getting a little excited. "When was the last time anyone from Fortune called about the labor movement?" says the former United Auto Workers president, now teachin...
New York State, whose business environment is arguably the worst in the union, has got itself a new promotional slogan: I.Q.NY: A STATE OF MINDS. The slogan could only have been bought by a governo...
A fortnight ago, we were dwelling heavily on the curious unwillingness of the New York Times to label certain congressional Democrats ''left wing.'' Having raised this prickly subject, we feel it w...
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