The wildfires that are currently scorching through the Western United States have compelled the state of California to send in state prisoners to fight the flames.
Regularly scheduled commercial flights between the United States and Cuba could be taking off by the end of the year if Washington and Havana reach an agreement on the issue.
A University of Alabama sorority is taken flak over a recruitment video critics call "racially and aesthetically homogeneous," "hyper-feminine" and "objectifying."
A Brooklyn mother has filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the City of New York and a New York Police Department officer over the death of her son, who was fatally shot by police in 2014.
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton held a testy closed-door meeting with Black Lives Matter activists in New Hampshire last week in which she stated that the way to solve racial injustice is to change policies rather than trying to "change hearts."
President Barack Obama on Tuesday named Raffi Freedman-Gurspan the White House Office of Presidential Personnel's new outreach and recruitment director, a historic appointment because Freedman-Gurspan becomes the first openly transgender official to serve in the Executive Mansion.
Appearing before an immigration court often marks a frightful experience for those fighting for a chance to remain in the United States. But the judges behind the bench are feeling the stress, too.
Republican presidential candidates have questioned the 14th Amendment, which allows U.S.-born children the automatic right to citizenship, but prominent Latinos and Latino-based organizations are criticizing calls to change the law.
A video that has allegedly been leaked from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) appears to show a UFO being tracked by a thermal imaging camera.
Current General Manager Ben Cherington is out! Dave Dombrowski has been hired by the Boston Red Sox. According to Yahoo, the former Detroit Tigers general manger will become the team's next president of baseball operations effective immediately.
"Into The Wild" actor Emile Hirsch is sentenced to jail time following an assault on a woman at the Sundance Film Festival this year. See the details here.
2016 Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina is being criticized for allegedly praising Muslims in a speech that she delivered 14 years ago, just weeks after 9/11.
President Barack Obama's deferred action executive actions have provided undocumented immigrants with the paperwork to apply for a driver's license, in eligible states, but challenges still remain as detailed in a new Pew Charitable Trusts report.
Lawyers representing Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev filed an appeal on Monday against his conviction and death sentence, arguing that intense publicity prevented him from getting an impartial trial.
As part of a federal racketeering case against him, a Pennsylvania congressman reported to a Philadelphia court complex on Tuesday to be photographed and fingerprinted.
