The net worth of late socialist leader Hugo Chávez's second-oldest daughter is estimated at $4.2 billion, making María Gabriela Chávez the richest woman in Venezuela.
Dutch investigators believe that pieces found at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 likely belong to a Russian-made surface-to-air missile.
Policy makers in Sacramento have created "a kind of California citizenship" in an effort to integrate tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants living in America's most populous state.
Megyn Kelly has no intention of apologizing to Donald Trump, even though the presidential hopeful demanded a mea culpa from the Fox News host, who had asked him about calling women "fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals" during last week's first Republican debate.
Hillary Clinton attended Donald Trump's latest wedding, not because she felt obliged to the real estate mogul turned presidential candidate, but simply because she thought it would be "fun," she told reporters on Monday.
The Mega Millions jackpot has inched up to $25 million, and if you're hoping to take that nifty nest egg home this week, then you might want to tune in tonight at 11 p.m. EDT. That's when the multistate lottery's draw is set to take place at the studios of WSB-TV, Atlanta's ABC affiliate.
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton seems to foresee a dynastic battle in the 2016 election and is increasingly focusing her criticism on former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. Meantime, she is all but ignoring the 16 other Republican presidential candidates.
If he were to move into the White House in January 2017, Ted Cruz would "direct the Department of Justice to investigate Planned Parenthood," the Texas senator promised. But that did not keep Californian James Pollard from donating to the organization "in Ted Cruz's honor."
Conservative pundit Ann Coulter used her Daily Caller column this week to charge Latino culture with "a cultural acceptance of child rape ... that doesn't exist in even the most dysfunctional American ghettoes."
Pennsylvania's highest-ranking law enforcement officer on Thursday was charged with leaking secret grand jury information and lying about it under oath.
The Mega Millions jackpot is inching up again, and if you're hoping to take home $20 million just in time for the weekend, then you might want to tune in tonight at 11 p.m. EDT. That's when the multistate lottery's draw is set to take place at the studios of WSB-TV, Atlanta's ABC affiliate.
Four people were killed and four others wounded when gunmen on Wednesday boarded a bus and opened fire on workers and passengers near El Salvador's capital city.
Carly Fiorina, who is widely considered an underdog in the crowded field of Republican White House contenders, made a mark for herself during Thursday's first presidential debate.
The crash of a police helicopter in northwestern Colombia on Tuesday led to the deaths of 16 officers. The policemen had been part of an operation to try to arrest one of the leaders of the Usuga Clan, a powerful drug-smuggling gang that operates in mountainous region of Antioquia.
South Carolina has removed the Confederate battle flag from its statehouse grounds and Mississippi continues to debate the use of the emblem on its banner, but Kentucky decided on Wednesday not to remove a statue of Jefferson Davis from its Capitol.
The city council of a heavily Hispanic Florida community on Wednesday rejected a proposal to condemn Donald Trump's comments about Mexican immigrants so as not to "politicize" the body's work.
The safari guide accused of luring Cecil the lion out of a Zimbabwean wildlife reserve, so that an American hunter could kill the animal, said on Tuesday he had no second thoughts about his actions.
Draft Biden, a group trying to get Joe Biden to join the 2016 White House race, has received a $10,000 check from Dick Harpootlian, the former chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party and one of the vice president's most outspoken supporters supporters.
The Venezuelan government has barred a prominent opposition leader from running in the South American nation's Dec. 6 legislative elections hours before the wife of embattled President Nicolás Maduro announced she would seek a seat in the National Assembly.
