President Barack Obama called on the U.S. government to increase funding for the nation's infrastructure in light of the Amtrak train derailment that killed 8 people earlier this week.
Like big oil and gun lobbying groups, the multi-billion dollar private prison industry is using capital power to gain influence in the political arena by donating large amounts of cash to elected officials.
Immigration reforms advocates encountered another setback from the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday. Lawmakers voted to not include an amendment that would allow recipients of President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to enlist in the military.
From the Islamic State militant group, climate change and finances millennials have a varied view on the issues based on polling data from Harvard University Institute of Politics (IOP).
Clinton has just tapped just Xochitl Hinojosa to be the new director of coalitions press, placing her in charge of Hispanic, black, and women-related media.
The U.S. House of Representatives delivered a clear message on Wednesday when it voted overwhelmingly to end the federal government's phone-metadata collection program revealed by NSA leaker Edward Snowden.
A recent poll requested by Bloomberg Politics and Saint Anselm College and conducted by Purple Insights found that New Hampshire voters have yet to decide on whom to vote for among the Republican presidential contenders.
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced a "series of actions" to enhance the agency's oversight on family residential facilities, also referred to as detention centers. ICE’s announcement comes as congressional lawmakers called for the end of such detention facilities.
Sen. Marco Rubio, one of the Republican Party's favorites for the presidential nominee in 2016, unveiled his foreign policy platform, making him the first of the growing list of contenders to outline his foreign policy goals.
Conservatives whistled and cheered at a recent GOP event when the mother-in-law of Citizens United Foundation President Dave Bossie likened immigrants to "rats and roaches."
President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party members in Congress received better approval ratings than Republicans based on polling data on millennials.
In April, when New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo visited Havana, the Roswell Park Cancer Institute finalized an agreement with Cuba’s Center for Molecular Immunology to develop a lung cancer vaccine and initiate clinical trials in the U.S.
Republican presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina no longer supports a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, the former Hewlett-Packard executive told a blogger on Monday.
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush will skip the traditional Iowa straw poll and instead attend a competing event in Atlanta. He is the only GOP hopeful, as of yet, to say he will not take part in the poll.
More than a hundred Republican lawmakers, including two presidential hopefuls, have signed an amicus brief joining the 26 states and state officials suing the Obama administration over the president's executive orders on immigration.
Since Obama’s decision to reopen ties with Cuba, Airbnb Inc -- a website designed to help travelers share their rooms -- has become the communist country’s fastest-growing market.
