WASHINGTON (AP) -- The ranks of America's poor are on track to climb to levels unseen in nearly half a century, erasing gains from the war on poverty in the 1960s amid a weak economy and fraying government safety net.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Houston pastor Timothy W. Sloan has felt for years that he needed to talk about HIV and AIDS with his congregation.

(CNN) -- As soon as counterterrorism and law enforcement officials got word of the shootings in Aurora, Colorado, an interagency process to search for a possible terrorism link was set in motion.

(CNN) -- Only one in 500 Americans is a black gay or bisexual male, but black men who have sex with men (MSM) account for one in four new HIV infections in the United States, according to a new report by the Black AIDS Institute (BAI).

SAN FRANCISCO – When Eunice Kim came to City College of San Francisco in 2007, she was looking for a way up and out of the spiraling travel industry that she'd been working in for nearly 10 years.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- One of the oldest U.S. civil rights groups says President Barack Obama may have a tougher time winning at least three battleground states in November if black voter turnout falls at least 5 percentage points below the record levels that helped to put him in the White House.

Nick Smith was shuttled from high school to high school in recent years, whenever a relative died or was shot.

SAN FRANCISCO--Janet Zamudio, a working mother of modest means, says the paid family leave she took soon after her third child, Maya, was born helped her feel "valued as a mother, as well as valued by the state" of California.

WASINGTON, D.C.— The mortgage crisis has slammed every age group—especially the oldest Americans 75-plus—and has hit Latino and African American seniors and their families the hardest, according to a study being released today by AARP.

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- The mother of a young black man who claims three Pittsburgh police officers wrongfully beat and arrested him says the injuries inflicted made her son unrecognizable when she picked him up at the county jail the next night.