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Honda Motor Corp. has reached a settlement with federal regulators to refund $24 million to minority borrowers they allegedly discriminated against by charging them higher interest rates than white customers.
Senate Democrats finally introduced legislation aimed to help Puerto Rico's $70 billion debt crisis.Democratic Sens. Chuck Schumer of New York and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut announced the "The Puerto Rico Chapter 9 Uniformity Act" (S. 1774), which would grant the island commonwealth the authority to allow its municipalities and public utilities to adjust their debts through bankruptcy court supervision.
Federal agents will begin making house visits to undocumented immigrants who received work papers under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program (DACA) with the wrong expiration date.
Former president George H.W. Bush has been hospitalized and listed in stable condition after falling in his home and suffering from a broken neck bone on Wednesday
In addition to granting clemency to 46 drug offenders in federal prisons, President Barack Obama mapped out a plan to reform the criminal justice system, which disproportionately incarcerates black and Latino men.
President Obama wants as many families as possible to receive high speed Internet access and he has unveiled a plan to help poor families receive the service.
Four Cuban athletes participating in the Pan American Games held in Toronto have defected to the United States, the country's rowing coach revealed on Wednesday.
While standing next to an enlarged photo on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, Democratic Rep. Luis Gutierrez of Illinois called on eligible immigrants to become citizens and register to vote.
The suspected gunman who confessed to killing nine people at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina last month is expected to appear in court Thursday morning.
Federal agents are keeping a close eye out on Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's wife in California, since the drug lord escaped from a high security prison in Mexico days ago.
President Barack Obama admitted on Wednesday there is little he can do about the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award presented to now disgraced comedic legend Bill Cosby back in 2002.
The U.S. Iran nuclear deal, which President Obama announced Tuesday, could add 1 million barrels of crude oil to global markets and bring gas prices in the U.S. down to $2 a gallon.
A federal judge ordered a suburban city in Los Angeles, California to release police video that shows officers fatally shooting an unarmed Hispanic man in 2013.
After enduring 10 hours of catcalls in a YouTube video that brought her global attention, aspiring actress Shoshana Roberts is suing the people and companies responsible for her fame.
2016 Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio wasted little time using the recent prison escape of infamous Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to bash the Obama administration.
Jurors in the Aurora Theater shooting trial began deliberating the fate of James Holmes Wednesday morning after prosecutors and the defense delivered their closing remarks over whether the shooter was legally insane at the time of the attack.
