As part of a new initiative to reform harsh drug sentencing laws, President Obama plans to grant clemency to hundreds, or even thousands of nonviolent drug offenders.
CAPS says "Let's slow immigration and save some California for tomorrow" A new Earth Day advertisement released by Californians for Population Stabilization tries to place blame on immigrants for California's environmental issues.
The Voto Latino Innovators Challenge, the organization's tech contest, is meant to challenge Millennials to not only learn outside of the classroom, but to create outside of the classroom and to think outside of the box. With the support of the MacArthur Foundation, and in partnership with HASTAC, Voto Latino will award a total of $500,000 in grants to the best 10-15 proposed projects.
A defendant in a gang-related trial was fatally shot by a U.S. marshal inside of a new federal courthouse in Salt Lake City Monday after he allegedly tried to attack a witness.
Nearly a decade ago, former Arizona Cardinals player Pat Tillman, who joined the Army following the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, was shot and killed during a friendly-fire incident in the mountainous terrain of southeast Afghanistan.
Marissa DeVault, the Arizona woman convicted of using a hammer to viciously attack and kill her husband in 2009, gave an emotional plead to the jurors to spare her life from the death penalty.
Over the weekend, drone strikes have reportedly killed 40 suspected al-Qaeda militants. Thirty suspected al-Qaeda members were killed in Yemen by American air strikes Sunday, local tribal sources said.
The law is a political move to appease Shia Muslims In Iraq, a new Jaafari marriage law would approve marriages to 9-year-old girls in a bid to satisfy the nation's conservatives ahead of parliamentary elections.
Millennials and tween-agers filled the ranks; filed in close, stood-at-attention, ready to absorb knowledge and wisdom. Maria Teresa Kumar, Rosario Dawson, and Wilmer Valderrama arrived ready to lay down knowledge on the doting audience -offering valuable perspective on Latino emergence, prevalence, and the excellence of the group.
The switch would come preloaded on new phones A "kill switch" is an emergency stop or a safety means that can disable a device in an urgent situation when the device cannot be blocked in any other way.
Protesters in Venezuela continued to march over Easter weekend against the Maduro government. Although the crowds marching on Caracas' streets are not the same as they were back in February when the protests began, the student protesters' demands remain the same. Three months of protests have not changed much in the South American nation, and the student protests this past weekend demonstrated the opposition's emotional reaction to the lack of progress.
The FBI has warned college students studying abroad that foreign intelligence officers are known to discreetly target and recruit young U.S. citizens with the purpose of gaining national secrets, Fox News reported.
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.
As more and more states are beginning to utilize solar energy and adapting other clean, green energy solutions, conservative lobbyist groups and oil tycoons have aggressively started pushing back against alternative energy.
An understated fruit, always present when most wanted, will be in short supply in the foreseeable future. The dwindling number of limes available has led to companies changing menus and recipes shining light on the drug war in Mexico. How companies will cope remains up in the air.
A controversial policy proposal in Illinois that would have banned medicinal marijuana users from owning a firearm was scrapped Friday after advocates for Second Amendment rights and marijuana proponents urged lawmakers against the proposal.
Vanity license plates are commonplace in every state, depicting a little of the owner on the outside. The New Jersey MVC, however, denied one woman's license plate because the MVC's website deemed it objectionable. In turn, the woman has decided to sue the New Jersey MVC.
Letters belonging to Mahatma Gandhi, once the preeminent leader of Indian nationalism in British-ruled India for employing nonviolent civil disobedience, are now up for auction.
