After months of historic records of employment data in the United States, the labor market noted a bit of bad news on Thursday as new applications for unemployment benefits last week recorded their largest increase in eight months, according to government statistics.
Embattled Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Tuesday put his trademark moustache on the line as he promised to deliver the millionth public housing unit before the end of the year.
Republican White House hopeful Donald Trump on Tuesday promoted his new book, "Crippled America," at a book signing in New York, which drew hundreds of supporters to the city's Trump Tower.
Bernie Sanders is upping the ante as he tries to close the gap with frontrunner Hillary Clinton in the race for the Democrats' 2016 White House nomination and now apparently backs an investigation into the former secretary of state's email habits, which he had previously opposed.
After a number of months during which GOP frontrunners Donald Trump and Ben Carson stole virtually all the limelight in the party's crowded field of presidential contenders, Marco Rubio seems to be making a comeback as the Florida senator is surging in three separate polls.
Chile has begun to conduct a large-scale military drill near its northern border with Bolivia and Peru, and the war games are raising tensions between the three South American neighbors that continue to face unresolved issues regarding their common frontiers.
Author Junot Díaz, actor Diego Luna, filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu and dozens of other Latino cultural figures on Tuesday slammed Donald Trump for what they described as the GOP presidential candidate's "xenophobia."
Hillary Clinton's latest ad in the key early-primary states of Iowa and New Hampshire focuses squarely on gun control, an issue that separates the former secretary of state from her closest Democratic challenger, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.
An Illinois school district may face sanctions over its refusal to let a female transgender student use the girls' locker room, a decision the U.S. Department of Education says constitutes a violation of federal anti-discrimination laws.
The former Venezuelan prosecutor who helped convict Leopoldo López on what he later said were "sham" charges is calling on the Obama administration to sanction other officials involved in the trial that ended in a prison sentence of almost 14 years for the opposition leader.
President Barack Obama used his appearance at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser held in New York on Monday to poke fun at Republicans in general and the GOP's White House hopefuls vying to succeed him.
The idea of Donald Trump's thumb on the nuclear button is not frightening to many Republicans, 34 percent of whom said they would trust the real estate tycoon turned presidential candidate to control the nation's arsenal, according to a new poll.
Loyal Mega Millions players are getting more and more excited as the multistate lottery's jackpot has risen to an impressive $144 million. If you plan to join the fun and buy a ticket today, then don't forget to also tune in at 11 p.m. ET, when the draw for the big prize is set to take place at the studios of WSB-TV, Atlanta's ABC affiliate.
Math scores on the so-called NAEP test, often dubbed "the nation's report card," went down for the first time in a quarter century, meaning that randomly selected fourth- and eighth-grade students performed worse in the key subject.
The Mega Millions jackpot is continuing its climb and stands at a massive $129 million today, meaning that thousands of players all over the country will likely try their luck in hopes of taking home a nifty nest egg tonight.
Wednesday night's Republican presidential debate, hosted by CNBC, is the first encounter during which Donald Trump is seeing his front-runner status seriously challenged.
"Too big to fail" would not define her approach to a situation such as the 2007 financial crisis, Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton told Stephen Colbert in a "Late Show" interview on Tuesday night.
A Venezuelan prosecutor who helped convict Leopoldo López is seeking asylum in the United States and is calling the opposition leader's trial a "sham" orchestrated by the administration of embattled President Nicolás Maduro.
Conservative Latinos plan to hold an "unprecedented gathering" in Boulder, Colorado, the site of the CNBC presidential debate on Oct. 28, to counter anti-Latino perceptions sparked by GOP front-runner Donald Trump.
The Mega Millions jackpot has once again reached triple digits, and thousands of players all over the United States will try to take the nifty $105 million nest egg home tonight.
Following the recent rapprochement between the United States and Cuba, U.S. air carriers are eager to resume commercial flights to the Caribbean destination. But Republican presidential hopeful and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie wants no such flights to depart from the Garden State.
The office of a University of Washington professor who recently sued the Central Intelligence Agency was burglarized this week, in what the academic called a "suspicious" coincidence.
Some four months after announcing his 2016 White House bid, still little-known former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee ended his presidential campaign on Friday.
Hillary Clinton is the prime beneficiary of Joe Biden's decision not to join the 2016 White House race, as polls had consistently shown that the vice president would have siphoned most of his support from the former secretary of state.
CNBC on Thursday unveiled the 10 White House hopefuls that will be invited to its Oct. 28 GOP presidential debate, set to take place at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado.
