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.

(CNN) -- Legendary restaurateur Sylvia Woods, known internationally as the Queen of Soul Food, passed away on Thursday, according to a statement issued by her family. She was 86.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- One part of the prosecution's case against Maj. Nidal Hasan, the accused Fort Hood, Texas, shooter, is a series of e-mails between the Army psychiatrist and the now dead radical Muslim cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki.

Workers at an Illinois factory, owned by Bain Capital LLC, are pleading with Mitt Romney to intervene and save their jobs.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- It wouldn't take much effort to hijack a drone over U.S. airspace and use it to commit a crime or act of terrorism, an aerospace engineering expert told a House subcommittee Wednesday.

Most Oregon moms breastfeed their babies. But African American parents stop breastfeeding sooner than others and fewer choose to start breastfeeding at all. Now a community health partnership is working to understand why.