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Black people who are more recent immigrants to the United States are often seen very differently than are blacks who are native-born — as reactions to a recent speech from President Obama remind us.

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With the prime-time debate field now at 11, the presidential front-runner will have even more attackers to try and fend off. And CNN is encouraging the sparring Wednesday night.

As the controversy over the National Security Agency's phone and Internet data gathering reminds us, one of Congress' most challenging assignments is oversight of the nation's intelligence community.

The International Monetary Fund issued a gloomy forecast and stock investors reacted. By the market's close, the Dow Jones industrial average had tumbled 272.58 points, or 1.6 percent

NPR's politics team annotated Trump's speech on immigration, which comes after a week of seeming to change direction on the issue.

A retired Navy official who started a second career working for a defense contractor in Japan pleaded guilty in San Diego federal court to conspiracy to defraud the United States. He faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Despite rousing speeches to faith gatherings, the Texas senator hasn't shown yet that he can marry that energy with the hand-to-hand campaigning needed to win voters in Iowa and South Carolina.

Forty years ago, Viet Luong was a 9-year-old Vietnamese boy fleeing Saigon with his family. Today he's the first Vietnamese-American general in the U.S. Army and is helping train the Afghan military.

Adm. Michelle Howard says that when she called a Navy office to order the women's four-star shoulder boards, she was told that they didn't exist.