Obama win triggers run on guns
HOUSTON — A week after the election of Barack Obama, gun buyers across the country are voting with their feet, flocking to gun stores to stock up on assault rifles,...
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In wake of Obama’s victory, civil rights leaders make adjustments
On the very day that the rest of America elected the first black president in the nation's history, voters in Nebraska approved a referendum banning all government affirmative action programs...
Many marvel at a black president
It ranks as America's bedrock civics lesson and most enduring national fable: the notion that any child born a U.S. citizen can one day grow up to become president. And...
Drilling to core of oil debate
INDEPENDENCE HUB, Gulf of Mexico — They're drilling out here, baby, they're drilling. Bobbing in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico, some 175 miles south of Mobile, Ala., this...
Killing in a small town raises hate crime fears
When the mutilated and partially dismembered body of Brandon McClelland, a 24-year-old black man, turned up lying in the middle of a rural east Texas road one morning last month,...
Racial prejudice and the elderly
The personality is familiar to us all: the sweet old aunt, the loving grandfather or the generous widow down the street, each of them unfailingly kind toward friends and family...
No outlets as dark sets in
HOUSTON—We've got a problem. I've been waiting years for the opportunity to write that. Only this time, it's not a cliche. Our problem is electricity, or more accurately, the lack...
No outlets as dark sets in
We've got a problem. I've been waiting years for the opportunity to write that. Only this time, it's not a cliche. Our problem is electricity, or more accurately, the lack...
Hot and mad, Texas awaits federal aid
HOUSTON—The nation's fourth-largest city lay paralyzed, sweltering and almost completely blacked out Sunday as frustrated residents waited in vain for promised federal disaster aid to be distributed more than 36...
Hot and mad, Texas awaits federal aid
The nation's fourth-largest city lay paralyzed, sweltering and almost completely blacked out Sunday as frustrated residents waited in vain for promised federal disaster aid to be distributed more than 36...