Three-time Oscar winner Meryl Streep is asking Congress to revive the Equal Rights Amendment, which the states failed to ratify in the 1970s. The famous actress on Tuesday sent letters to the nation's 535 lawmakers, which came attached to copies of "Equal Means Equal," a book by ERA Coalition President Jessica Neuwirth.
Though unemployment had continued to decrease in the last couple of years, it remains an issue among middle and working class people. Rep. Tony Cárdenas (D-Calif.) reintroduced legislation to help the unemployed relocate and find employment.
A recent report shows who would be most impacted if the courts ultimately decide against President Barack Obama's executive actions. An estimated 5.5 million U.S. citizen children whose parents are undocumented could benefit from DAPA. However, the action is currently blocked while a lawsuit filed by 26 states makes its way through the courts.
A California man's proposed ballot measure that called for the killing of gay people is "patently unconstitutional," and the state's attorney general is not required to "waste public resources" to process the initiative, a Sacramento County Superior Court ruled on Monday.
A Colorado teen who thought he had come down with the flu but then died within a few days apparently had been infected with the plague, likely by fleas that put the bacteria directly into his bloodstream.
The current jackpot stands at $40 million with a cash value of $24.8 million. Wednesday’s chance to win big at Powerball is here. The current jackpot stands at $40 million with a cash value of $24.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Jeh Johnson said he understands the "sensitive and unique nature of detaining families" but continued to defend the practice.
A 90-year-old Florida man was arrested this week after he allegedly pointed a handgun at a man working at the post office and threatened to "blow his head off."
James Horner, the Hollywood orchestrator who composed the scores of "Titanic," "Avatar," Star Trek's "The Wrath of Khan" and dozens of other movies, died on Monday when his single-engine plane crashed in Southern California.
A man attacked a woman in Bryant Park with a machete on Tuesday in the center of Manhattan. A man attacked a woman in Bryant Park with a machete on Tuesday in the center of Manhattan.
Republican Senator Jeff Sessions of Arizona has introduced a new bill aimed at strengthening Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) while also cracking down on city that protect undocumented immigrants. The bill is named after two police officers that lost their lives at the hands of an undocumented immigrant.
Artists put up a new mural of "LGBT gangsters" in San Francisco on Thursday only for it to be defaced on Saturday for a second time. The mural was painted by Manuel Paul of Maricón Collective.
The Republican speaker of Mississippi's House of Representatives on Monday called for the Confederate battle emblem to be removed from the Magnolia State's flag.
The Mega Millions jackpot is back up to a sizeable $52 million, and if you're hoping to take that nifty nestegg home tonight, you might want to tune in at 11 p.m. Eastern Time; that's when the multistate lottery's draw is set to take place at the studios of WSB-TV, Atlanta's ABC affiliate.
A water bottling company based in California has issued a voluntary recall due to an E. coli scare. A water bottling company based in California has issued a voluntary recall due to an E.
