With one more vote next week, the Berkeley City Council could help poor and low-income medical marijuana users in Berkeley, California, get their weed for free from medical pot dispensaries.
Colorado's Division of Motor Vehicles website shut down briefly Wednesday night as a result of an influx of noncitizens making appointments to get driver's licenses.
The Directorate of Arms and Munitions Sales is Mexico's only gun store. The shop is run by the Mexican military, and it sells products such as 9mm handguns and semi-automatic rifles only to police departments. Under Mexican law, citizens can only purchase firearms such as "deer rifles and small handguns," The Washington Post reported. One Mexican military veteran is trying to change all that.
Edna Giggs, a member of her local NAACP chapter, has been leading a charge against new voter-identification laws in Texas, which some civil rights and liberties groups consider to be among the most restrictive in the nation.
The film industry may begin to take crew safety more seriously following the death of a 27-year-old camera assistant and the indictment of three producers of the independent film "Midnight Rider."
President Barack Obama continued a recent Fourth of July tradition at the White House by holding a naturalization ceremony, granting citizenship to immigrants who signed up to serve in the U.S. military as well as their spouses.
The mother of Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, who has been held in a Mexican jail for three months, has appealed to the top U.S. diplomat in Mexico, seeking his help in getting the Marine released.
In a show of good faith, Japan announced Thursday that it would remove or ease up on a number of sanctions it placed on North Korea while Pyongyang opens up investigations into the kidnappings of Japanese citizens decades ago.
Hobby Lobby, a craft store chain, won a groundbreaking and controversial case in the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this week regarding contraception coverage to its employees.
For the first time in its three-year run, Jay Z's Made in America music festival will be held outside of Philadelphia and come to Los Angeles where it will be simultaneously held in both cities on Labor Day weekend, Aug. 30-31.
NASA on Tuesday approved the production of rocket believed to be the most powerful to ever launch in history, which will explore areas beyond our moon including near-Earth asteroids and Mars by the end of the decade.
In an effort to promote a pro-democratic state in Hong Kong, almost 800,000 - more than 10 percent of the city's population - participated in a 10-day vote on a nonbinding referendum. The effort would continue Tuesday with a march through Hong Kong, which is expected to draw hundred of thousands of people.
Following Mexico's crushing loss to Holland on Saturday, resulting in its elimination from the rest of the World Cup tournament, the Royal Dutch Airline company, KLM, took to social media to gloat.
Two American tourists, who traveled separately to North Korea, have been detained and are currently awaiting trial for allegedly carrying out hostile acts against the country, Pyongyang authorities claimed.
General Motors announced Monday that it would pay upwards of several millions dollars each to the families of those who died or were severely injured in accidents caused by the company's vehicles that had defective ignition switches.
A United Airlines flight headed to Southern California from Chicago was forced to land in Kansas on Sunday after an emergency slide inflated inside the cabin.
A federal judge Tuesday said that the government's bulk data-collection of phone and email records gathered from warrantless surveillance of foreign nationals living outside the country was legal.
A U.S. appeals court Wednesday struck down a state ban on same-sex marriage citing that the Constitution protects same-sex couples, giving gay-marriage advocates another strategic victory toward the Supreme Court.
Earlier this month came big news that Warner Bros. Studios was not only planning a Justice League film to continue the story from the upcoming "Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice" film, but a slate of DC Comics heroes would also follow the release to star in their own big-screen adaptations.
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is reportedly considering filing a lawsuit against the president because of his increase use of the signing executive orders to bypass Congress.
Pope Francis on Saturday denounced and excommunicated from the Catholic Church all mobsters after his one-day visit to the Calabria region, where a 3-year-old boy was shot dead during a shootout in January.
A federal appeals court last week told the group American Atheists to better explain how the Ground Zero Cross display at the National September 11 Memorial Museum, which opened last month, violates the constitutional rights of its members, who find it offensive.
Tesla Motors said Monday that it would have a prototype of the long-awaited Model X crossover vehicle by the end of the year and begin producing it for consumers in early 2015.
