In a bipartisan vote on Thursday, the Senate confirmed Sylvia Mathews Burwell to fill Kathleen Sebelius' position as the new secretary of Health and Human Services.
Healthcare.gov reportedly produced new problems for the Affordable Care Act's progress. Documents have revealed approximately two million people enrolled for private health insurance through the taxpayer-subsidized program have data discrepancies from income and immigration and citizenship status.
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.
Organizers are no longer planning to throw a welcome home party for former Taliban captive Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in his hometown of Hailey, Idaho due to public backlash over the nature of his capture back in 2009.
One of President Barack Obama's private moments was exposed to the world when a video of him working out at a hotel gym in Poland was leaked to the Polish media.
For Latinos, immigration reform has to happen before this year's midterm elections. According to new polling figures, Latinos believe the GOP will be "most responsible" if reforms are not passed.
The Obama administration said Wednesday that it is willing to drop the lawsuit against the 'racial profiling' section of Arizona's immigration bill if Arizona agrees to halt specific practices.
Despite Lewinsky’s attempt to come forward and finally speak out about what happened, Clinton’s wife and former U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton is going on record to say that she’s completely over it and has moved on from the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
On Wednesday, Jose Ramon Cabañas, Havana, Cuba's representative in Washington, recommended that the United States government consider calls for rapprochement with the communist country.
Next week President Barack Obama will visit the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe reservation in Cannon Ball, North Dakota, marking his first visit to Indian Country since becoming president.
A craving for French fries is not the reason why airplane pilot Michael Ray Martin crashed-landed a small plane into a northern Louisiana McDonald's parking lot near the drive-thru on Tuesday.
To help protect net neutrality, comedian John Oliver on his HBO show Last Week Tonight called on internet lovers to do what they do best: trolling. The result? They probably crashed the FCC's servers.
According to the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), numerous forms of pollution, such as toxic chemicals, are hidden in "plain sight," and those dangerous chemicals are affecting the Latino community. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy noted more than 3.6 million Latinos have developed asthma in the United States (U.S.), including 1 in 10 Latino children.
