Hillary Clinton endured hours of sharp questioning by House lawmakers leading a select House committee investigating the Benghazi attacks in 2012 that led to the deaths of American ambassador Christopher Stevens and three fellow Americans.
President Barack Obama delivered an impassioned and personal speech addressing the national health epidemic of prescription drug and heroin addiction, which is killing more Americans per year than automobile crashes.
Hillary Clinton is the prime beneficiary of Joe Biden's decision not to join the 2016 White House race, as polls had consistently shown that the vice president would have siphoned most of his support from the former secretary of state.
CNBC on Thursday unveiled the 10 White House hopefuls that will be invited to its Oct. 28 GOP presidential debate, set to take place at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado.
A 19-year-old Indiana University student is under arrest for attacking a Muslim woman in public. A 19-year-old Indiana University student is under arrest for attacking a Muslim woman in public.
The four-week average of initial jobless claims, a less volatile measure than the weekly figure, has fallen to a historic level, clocking in at its lowest point since December 1973.
A New York City man has filed federal suit against the city, alleging that he was forced to spend six weeks on Rikers Island simply because he fit the nondescript bill of a black suspect wearing a hoodie.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton faced a key moment in her 2016 presidential campaign on Thursday, as she fielded questions from the congressional committee investigating the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which occurred during her tenure as the nation's top diplomat.
Many Democrats may belittle Donald Trump, but Republicans apparently take the candidacy of the real-estate mogul, and current presidential front-runner quite seriously, a new poll suggests.
Student leaders at the University of Mississippi passed a resolution to remove the Mississippi state flag from its campus since the flag contains the Confederate battle emblem.
The family members of a popular church drummer, who was shot and killed by a plainclothes police officer in Florida early Sunday morning, are praying for answers.
Seventy Kurdish hostages were rescued after special U.S. forces, working with Kurdish commandos, attacked an Islamic State outpost located near the Iraqi town of Hawija. One U.S. soldier was killed in the raid.
More than $2.2 billion in Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program grants were awarded to cities, states and local community-based organizations throughout the 2015 fiscal year, according to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell.
The 14-year-old Muslim student who was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to his Texas high school as it was mistaken for a bomb last month has accepted a scholarship to attend school in Qatar.
The Obama administration has been working on an coordinated effort to help communities battling "epidemic" heroin and prescription painkiller abuse, which includes President Barack Obama traveling to West Virginia, a state particularly hard hit by drug abuse.
A U.S. federal court judge shot down the American Civil Liberties Union's (ACLU) push to have technical college IDs, out-of-state driver's licenses and veterans' photo IDs all declared as permissible options to Wisconsin's strict voter ID laws.