House lawmakers have called U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch to meet them for a meeting on discussing plans to stop gun violence in minority communities.
Hillary Clinton endured hours of sharp questioning by House lawmakers leading a select House committee investigating the Benghazi attacks in 2012 that led to the deaths of American ambassador Christopher Stevens and three fellow Americans.
President Barack Obama delivered an impassioned and personal speech addressing the national health epidemic of prescription drug and heroin addiction, which is killing more Americans per year than automobile crashes.
Hillary Clinton is the prime beneficiary of Joe Biden's decision not to join the 2016 White House race, as polls had consistently shown that the vice president would have siphoned most of his support from the former secretary of state.
CNBC on Thursday unveiled the 10 White House hopefuls that will be invited to its Oct. 28 GOP presidential debate, set to take place at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado.
Of all the predictions that "Back to the Future II" got wrong, the character of Biff may not have been one of them. See why Trump was used as the inspiration for the character of Biff Tannen.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton faced a key moment in her 2016 presidential campaign on Thursday, as she fielded questions from the congressional committee investigating the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which occurred during her tenure as the nation's top diplomat.
Immigrant-rights advocates have long criticized the terms "illegal" and “alien” immigrant, and one congressman is taking the lead, on a federal level, against the "offensive and inflammatory" language toward immigrants.
Many Democrats may belittle Donald Trump, but Republicans apparently take the candidacy of the real-estate mogul, and current presidential front-runner quite seriously, a new poll suggests.
During a press conference Tuesday evening, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., answered the call to run for the House of Representatives' Speaker position to replace outgoing Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, who is set to resign at the end of the month.
The Obama administration has been working on an coordinated effort to help communities battling "epidemic" heroin and prescription painkiller abuse, which includes President Barack Obama traveling to West Virginia, a state particularly hard hit by drug abuse.
A U.S. federal court judge shot down the American Civil Liberties Union's (ACLU) push to have technical college IDs, out-of-state driver's licenses and veterans' photo IDs all declared as permissible options to Wisconsin's strict voter ID laws.
The average U.S. Latino worker is earning less compared to non-Hispanic whites, according to a new report by the Joint Economic Committee and Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
Vice President Joe Biden announced he will not run for U.S. president. Vice President Joe Biden put an end to speculation that he would jump into the 2016 presidential race on Wednesday, announcing that he has decided not to seek the Democratic nomination.
U.S. Senate legislation that would defund so-called “sanctuary cities” failed to advance, and House Democrats, prominently minority lawmakers, celebrated the bill’s defeat.
Recently announced Canadian Prime Minister 43-year-old Justin Trudeau is already setting a new tone in his leadership, speaking on Tuesday the changes and improvements he is bound to make in his seat in the office.
