New applications for unemployment benefits in the United States remained near a 15-year low this week, while the average number of new claims rose 5,000 to a seasonally adjusted 267,750 over the past month, statistics from the U.S. Department of Labor revealed.
Republican Utah Gov. Gary Herbert on Thursday chided a local judge for putting his "personal beliefs and feelings" above the law when he ordered ordered a baby to be taken from her lesbian foster parents and placed with a heterosexual couple, supposedly for the child's well-being.
Determined to regain his front-runner status, Donald Trump is going after Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon, who has become the new star in the still-crowded field of Republican White House hopefuls.
President Nicolás Maduro's stepson and wife's nephew are facing charges in New York, but if a group of Venezuelan opposition figures has their way, the embattled president himself may soon have to stand trial for "crimes against humanity."
Bernie Sanders managed to grab a lot of headlines in the past few weeks, but Hillary Clinton remains the clear front-runner in the race for the Democratic nomination and holds a lead of almost 20 percentage points over her most dangerous rival, according to a new poll.
An outburst by the overly excited Arizona State University mascot Sparky may cost the Tempe institution thousands of dollars, after a local councilman sued the school over injuries he says he sustained during the halftime ceremony of a Sept. 18 football game against the University of New Mexico.
The Colombian government is weighing the legalization of all abortions until the 12th week of pregnancy without requiring women justify their decision, a high-ranking government official said this week at a local conference.
U.S. agents on Tuesday arrested two members of the immediate family of powerful Venezuelan first lady Cilia Flores in a move that could further taint Washington's strained relationship with the South American country and with Flores' husband, embattled President Nicolás Maduro.
Regularly scheduled flights between the United States and Cuba might begin in coming months, after government officials in Havana said that they and their counterparts from Washington are close to signing an agreement on the normalization of air travel between the two countries.
American mixed martial artist Ronda Rousey is throwing her support behind the presidential campaign of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who the undefeated Ultimate Fighting champion says has taking the right approach to financing his 2016 White House bid.
The presidential campaign of Jeb Bush, which experts declared to be on life support head of Tuesday night's GOP debate, seems to have been infused with new hope after the former Florida governor delivered a solid performance at the Fox Business Channel-hosted event.
Fans are waiting to find out whether Oliver Hampton, the IT specialist played by Conrad Ricamora that used to be romantically involved with Connor Walsh (Jack Falahee), will face an unnatural death in the upcoming eighth episode of the second season of ABC's hit show "How to Get Away with Murder."
Colombia's main guerrilla group on Monday rejected the government's efforts to put the peace deal both sides are finalizing up to a plebiscite, insisting that a national constituent assembly should be called instead to determine the country's future.
Texas state troopers wrongly recorded the race of minority drivers in what might be seen as an effort to disguise racial profiling, the investigative team of Austin's NBC affiliate reported based on expert testimony.
Ben Carson's claims of having had a violent temper as a youth likely spell the beginning of the end of his presidential campaign, his Republican rival Donald Trump predicted on Sunday.
Observers expect the relationship between Marco Rubio and his former mentor Jeb Bush to further disintegrate tonight, as the two Republican presidential candidates are likely to attack each other fiercely during their party's fourth presidential debate.
Venezuela on Sunday accused the United States of having violated its sovereign airspace, saying that a U.S. Coast Guard intelligence that departed from the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao on Friday overflew its territory later that day.
Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz is less worried about current front-runners Donald Trump and Ben Carson and instead already focusing on Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., apparently seeing him as his key obstacle to winning the party's 2016 White House nomination.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, whose personal finance have increasingly drawn scrutiny from some of his GOP White House rivals, on Saturday released previously secret records that appear to show his use of a Florida Republican Party credit card for personal expenses.
Lawmakers in Catalonia on Monday approved a plan that put the autonomous region on a course toward independence, a move the central government in Madrid says violates the constitution and which Spanish Prime Minister Manuel Rajoy pledged to undo.
Donald Trump on Friday blasted a video from a Hispanic advocacy group, in which children derided the Republican presidential candidate's views on immigration using swearwords and other coarse language. The candidate called the clip a "disgrace" and its makers "stupid."
Hours after Bernie Sanders did an about-face, now saying he believes Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server as secretary of state should be investigated, the Vermont senator further upped his rhetoric, claiming that he and the Democratic front-runner disagree on "virtually everything."
Permanent residents eligible to become U.S. citizens will soon get some encouragement during Miami Dolphins games to file the required paperwork with United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
