On Monday the U.S. Supreme Court said the oil company British Petroleum has to continue to pay claims from the fund that was established following the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico during the company's appeal to the terms of its settlement with some businesses.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to listen to California Gov. Jerry Brown's states' rights appeal of an order requiring that state officials monitor all disabled prisoners who are serving time in county jails.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Monday signed a bill into that allows undocumented students to qualify for in-state college tuition. Scott signed the bill in private but will hold a public signing at a campaign event in Fort Myers later in the afternoon, Fox News Latino reported.
Waves of undocumented children traveling from Central American countries without their families have been caught attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas and are being transported to Arizona.
The Mexican attorney general's office has defended its treatment and handling of Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, a Marine reservist who was arrested April 1 and since held in Mexican prison after accidentally crossing the border in San Ysidro with his registered firearms in the back of his pickup truck.
In an effort to help college graduates facing high loan repayments manage their debts, the president on Monday is expected to announce an expansion of a repayment program,
In a last-ditch effort to get Tesla Motors to open their much-anticipated electric-car battery factory in California, the state's lawmakers along with the governor's office are making the company an offer they hope it won't refuse.
The Organization United for Respect at WalMart, a group of the company's employees, have planned a demonstration at the department chain's annual shareholder meeting in Bentonville, Ark. on Friday where they will demand better pay and benefits from management.
A new study published Friday in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology has found that exposing infants to allergens and bacteria during the first year of life can greatly reduce their chances of developing allergies and asthma.
Earlier this week a Spanish news publication reported that Emily Blunt was cast in the highly anticipated "Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice" film but so far no official word has come out from Warner Bros. and none of the top entertainment sites have reported anything as well.
More than three-quarters of American citizens identify themselves as belonging to the Christian faith with the majority identified as Protestants, according to The Washington Post.
Senate Republicans who oppose President Barack Obama's newly imposed power plant regulations, which were announced earlier this week, have signed a letter to the White House urging the president to repeal the rule.
A lawsuit was filed against the city of Wenatchee, Wa. on Tuesday over its City Council's decision to not allow marijuana businesses set up shop in town.
Google unveiled a tablet on Thursday that is equipped with its latest Project Tango software, which provides realistic 3D mapping and sensing capabilities for mobile devices.
After several months of being subjected to racist remarks and discrimination, an Africa-American Tennessee worker released phone recordings that revealed his supervisor threatening to hang him for drinking water out of a "white people" only fountain.
Amid the severe drought, which has choked water out of most of California's rivers and creeks, gold mining has remerged as a profitable practice in the Golden State.
Great Britain's Education Department has decided to pull several classic tales written by American authors from its schools' curriculum and replace them with more works from England's own authors.
A revised contract agreement that teachers at a Catholic school in Cincinnati are required to sign in order to continue teaching has several staff members outraged.
In recent months, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has come under fire for treatment of immigrants it has arrested, and now public officials have raised concerns with agents in Texas who have been transporting detainees and abandoning them in other states.
The Environmental Protection Agency will announce Monday its proposed regulations to reduce carbon emissions at power plants, which the president insisted during his weekly radio address Saturday would improve public health.
Argentine model Maria Belén Rodriguez is currently entangled in a lawsuit against Google and Yahoo, which she claimed linked her name and modeling photos to pornographic websites.
