Less than a day Ohioans before were scheduled to start early voting for this year's election, the U.S. Supreme Court voted along ideological lines to halt the procedure.
Despite President Barack Obama's campaign promise to close Guantanamo Bay, the removal of prisoners from the United States military prison is at a crawl as the Pentagon slowly approves transfers.
The grand jury began deliberations on Monday on whether there should be criminal charges in the case of an African-American who died while being arrested by New York police officers, according to union officials.
President Barack Obama’s approval rating and his handling of health care policies and terrorism improved in recent weeks, but the disapproval rating outweighed the positive gains.
The New York Civilian Complaint Review said it would release a report on the number of chokehold complaints it had received following the chokehold death of Eric Garner in Staten Island in July.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, won laughs and a straw poll at the annual Family Research Council Action's Values Voter Summit, a Christian conservative forum for citizens who want to "preserve the bedrock values of traditional marriage, religious liberty, sanctity of life and limited government".
Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly's General Debate, Guatemala's foreign affairs minister said the influx of undocumented immigrant children to the United States should not be considered a crime.
A nonpartisan coalition of national Latino organizations published a scorecard of the 113th Congress on how lawmakers' votes affected the social, economic and political life of Latinos.
Pakistani opposition leader Imran Khan on Sunday took the campaign to unseat Nawaz Sharif to the prime minister's home base of Lahore, where tens of thousands of people roared their support for change.
The far-right National Front won its first ever seats in France's upper house of parliament on Sunday, as President Francois Hollande's Socialist party lost its Senate majority.
Afghanistan inaugurates its first new president in a decade on Monday, swearing in technocrat Ashraf Ghani to head a power-sharing government just as the withdrawal of most foreign troops presents a crucial test.
British Prime Minister David Cameron on Sunday apologized for revealing details of Queen Elizabeth's relief that Scotland had voted to keep the United Kingdom intact, saying he was kicking himself very hard for the breach of protocol.
El Salvador's president spoke before the United Nations about decreasing poverty levels, quality of life and migration of children that's also affecting Central America.
Latino group calls for votes against Democratic senators in key swing states Four Democratic Senators who have opposed immigration reform in key swing states may lose Hispanic votes.
