The Obama administration suffered a major blow on Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned federal environmental regulations that required power plants to limit emissions of mercury and other pollutants.
Federal investigators believe lightning may have played a role in igniting a fire at Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church in Greeleyville, South Carolina, on Tuesday night.
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said that she isn't surprised that Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., a presidential candidate running for the Democratic nomination, is surging in the polls.
Democratic presidential candidates need to give their voters a reason to turnout and vote. A new report found lack of enthusiasm and interest among Democratic voters, including millennials and unmarried women.
The DREAM Action Coalition, an immigration activism group, launched a petition to release activist and DREAMer Cesar Vargas from probation so he can obtain his lawyer's license in New York.
New data from the 2015 STEM Index, the second-annual study of growth in STEM jobs, careers and educational pathways carried out by U.S. News/Raytheon shows Silicon Valley's lack of diversity is still rooted in education, as the gender and racial gaps in STEM fields have widened since last year.
America's top spies are predominantly white and male, and the Central Intelligence Agency on Tuesday announced a number of measures to increase diversity within its ranks.
Smoking marijuana became legal in Oregon on Wednesday, making the state part of what Reuters called the "growing legalization movement spreading down the United States' West Coast."
The U.S. labor market is showing signs of continued strength as the nation's companies added some 237,000 jobs in June, Bloomberg said based on figures from the ADP Research Institute.
Hillary Clinton's $275,000 proved a bit too steep for officials at the University of Missouri at Kansas City hoping to spice up a gala luncheon marking the opening of a women's hall of fame. But the institution was happy to hand over $65,000 for a brief appearance by Clinton's daughter, Chelsea.
Wednesday’s chance of winning big at Powerball is here. And since no one won the grand prize last Saturday -- when the winning numbers were: 18, 28, 35, 46, 49, and 27 -- all that money has rolled over and is now at $60 million with a $36.5 million cash value.
One of the two convicted murderers who escaped from an upstate New York prison in June has revealed exactly how he and his partner managed to execute their elaborate prison break and then hide out from authorities for three weeks.
The Texas senator defends GOP presidential rival Donald Trump's stance on immigration. Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said Donald Trump should not apologize "for speaking out against the problem that is illegal immigration" during an interview on the Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends" on Tuesday.
Donald Trump's $500 million breach-of-contract lawsuit seems not to have made a big impression on Univision's lawyers, who on Tuesday deemed the presidential candidate's complaint "factually false and legally ridiculous."
On Wednesday, President Barack Obama is expected to announce an agreement with Cuba that will allow each country to reopen embassies in the other's capital.
Pope Francis will pay a visit to an East Harlem Catholic school and celebrate Mass at Madison Square Garden during his upcoming two-day trip to New York City.
