The campaign to rein in the surveillance of Americans by the National Security Agency (NSA) has become even more difficult. Congress in its lame duck session has used a set of provisions that expand rather than curtail the agency's data-gathering power.
Although Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid tried to send the Senate home for the weekend and reconvene on Monday, Republican Senators Ted Cruz and Mike Lee created a procedural roadblock, insisting that the Majority Leader allow a vote on an amendment to the bill that would deter funding from President Obama's executive order to stop almost 5 million undocumented immigrants from being deported.
The U.S. Senate is expected to vote to pass the House-approved $1.1. trillion spending bill to keep the government running through to next September and to avoid a government shutdown.
The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee has released new information claiming the Bush administration misled the American people in the run-up to the war in Iraq.
As protests over the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown continue across the country, Mexicans living in New York and Los Angeles have been protesting the missing 43 students disappeared by local police in Iguala. This weekend, the two groups will march together to demand an end to human rights violations by the state against their own people.
Despite his support for a voter referendum to legalize the recreational use of marijuana in Washington, D.C., President Barack Obama is set to sign a last-minute spending measure that would block the results of that vote.
Two polls show Clinton leading against her potential Republican opponents. Though the former senator has not announced she will run, she is the Democratic favorite for the 2016 race.
Some immigrants covered under the executive action announced by President Obama on Nov. 20 may be able to apply for deportation relief and work permits as early as mid-February. Those eligible for the expanded DACA will be first up, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has not confirmed his intentions to run for the White House in 2016, but former New York Sen. Hillary Clinton appears to be more popular in the Garden State than him.
Congress is due to vote on a 1,600 page federal budget Thursday which while keeping the government running could have implications for pensions, election campaigns, bank and environmental regulations because of amendments.
Pope Francis won't meet with the Dalai Lama out of China concerns. In an effort to improve the Vatican’s relations with China, where there are an estimated 12 million practicing Catholics, Pope Francis has declined to meet with the Dalai Lama during his visit to Rome this weekend where the Tibetan exile will attend a summit of past Nobel Peace Prize winners.
Despite President Barack Obama’s executive actions, law enforcement and religious-based leaders are pressing Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform.
Since October, Arturo Hernandez has sought sanctuary in the basement of a church of the First Unitarian Society of Denver, Colorado after fleeing a threat of deportation. Immigration policy won't let agents enter a house of workshop to deport someone unless they have committed a serious crime.
President Barack Obama's immigration executive actions included deportation deferment for approximately 4.9 million undocumented immigrants, but have also ordered for increased border security.
Four more states have joined a Texas-led coalition that seeks to sue the Obama administration an over executive action on immigration announced last month wherein the president's unilaterally moved to spare millions of people living illegally in the United States from deportation.
President Barack Obama promoted a new $1 billion package of combined public and private funding for U.S. preschool programs during a White House summit.
President Barack Obama's job approval rating continued to decline, based on new polling data conducted after the midterm elections, and his handling on immigration has been viewed with unpopular opinion.
On Tuesday, Secretary of State John Kerry appeared before a Senate committee to ask the U.S. legislature for greater powers in the fight against ISIS. These would give the U.S. military greater freedom in its current fight but also blur the extent of American involvement.
President Barack Obama addressed and answered questions on immigration Nashville, Tennessee, a location he viewed as "one of the fastest-growing immigrant populations in the country."
