Scotland Yard has now spent somewhere around 10 million pounds in their efforts to providing a 24-hour guard at the Ecuadorean embassy in London where the whistle-blowing Australian publisher and journalist has claimed asylum.
It looks like first daughter Malia Obama might be heading to New York City in a couple of years. It looks like first daughter Malia Obama might be heading to New York City in a couple of years.
Chinese authorities on Friday openly displayed their anger over President Barack Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama. Obama called the Tibetan spiritual leader "a good friend" after the Thursday encounter at a Washington prayer meeting.
An upgrade to New York's 911 emergency communications system is 10 years behind schedule and almost $900 million over budget, the city's official watchdog organization has determined. The Department of Investigation found that the administration of Michael Bloomberg for years mismanaged the overhaul.
The efforts of a South Carolina mayor trying to alter a war memorial, which separates fallen soldiers into "white" and "colored" veterans, have been stifled by a state law that prohibits changes to historical markers without legislative approval.
New York State this week officially implemented tougher penalties to combat fraudulent immigration assistance services in an effort to protect the state's immigrant population.
Rather than mandating all restaurant employees to wash their hands after they finish using the bathroom, Republican Sen.Thom Tillis of North Carolina announced that he believes restaurants should be allowed to opt out of hand-washing policies.
Speaking to supporters in Caracas before meeting with Ernesto Samper, the Secretary General of the Union of South American Nations, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro called for a relationship with the United States based on diplomacy and demanded an end to what he sees as a U.S. backed plan to destabilize his government.
The U.S. State Department announced this week additional visa restrictions for human rights violators from Venezuela. Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro has since criticized the U.S. government's decision.
Benjamin Netanyahu has no plans to cancel a planned March 3 speech before a joint session of Congress, which has ruffled feathers in the United States weeks before the Israeli prime minister's arrival.
With the 2015 tax season being the first year for people to report their health insurance information on their tax returns, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) this week announced efforts to ease the process.
U.S. Senate Democrats have blocked the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's (DHS)' 2015 fiscal year budget, and President Barack Obama and the GOP are voicing their opinions on the latest gridlock over immigration.
Today Tom Wheeler, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, put to rest any doubt that the agency charged with regulating the infrastructure of the Internet plans to do so based on the strongest legal foundation available. It's victory for Net Neutrality advocates, to the chagrin of Internet service providers.
Sen. Marco Rubio conducted his first Senate Foreign Relations Western Hemisphere Subcommittee hearing this week and focused heavily and critically on the renewed diplomatic relations between Cuba and the U.S.
