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.
Since President Barack Obama introduced his healthcare reform law near the beginning of his presidency, GOP lawmakers have staunchly opposed it while many have vowed to repeal it.
During President Barack Obama's first term in office his wife, first lady Michelle Obama, led a congressional effort to get the nation's schools to serve healthier food options making the reduction of childhood obesity a priority.
Following the tragedy that occurred near the University of California at Santa Barbara on Friday, Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) raised concerns Sunday about the necessity for background checks on firearms and improving the mental health of U.S. citizens.
Overcrowded city and county jails have lead the President Barack Obama and his administration to make changes to the Secure Communities program, which ranks repeat immigration violators as high as violent offenders on the priority list for deportations.
Police commissioner Robert Copeland, 82, resigned from his post as head of the Wolfeboro police commission Monday following his town's demand that he step down for making racial remarks toward the the nation's president.
Formerly known as International Worker's Day, May Day traditionally represents a celebration of workers' rights. However, during the past decade in the U.S, it has become a day to advocate for several issues, including immigration reform and raising the national minimum wage. "Si se puede!" -- Yes, we can -- rang throughout the air as immigration reform and undocumented immigrants' rights were the main focus of this year's march.
Last week House Speaker John Boehner delivered speech in Cincinnati where he blasted his fellow GOP lawmakers by mocking and imitating them regarding their inaction toward immigration reform, but this week he sang a different tune.
A recent plan for the state of Illinois to provide $100 million of state money toward the development of a presidential library for President Barack Obama has got the state's GOP officials in a tizzy.
State Sen. Leticia Van de Putte is a Democrat running for the lieutenant governor seat of Texas this year. If she wins the election in November, she will be the first Hispanic and the first woman to hold the position in the state.
During a speech event in John Boehner's Ohio hometown on Thursday, the House Speaker reportedly mocked his fellow GOP Congress members for the gridlock that has stalled immigration reform.
Republican and Tea Party Sens. Ran Paul and Ted Cruz are among the many hopefuls for the GOP to run in the upcoming election, however, a powerful voice from inside their own party has public come out as a staunch opposition to their bids.
