In April, Puerto Rico’s finance officials warned the U.S. territory could shut down in three months unless it secured a workable financing deal. As it stand now Puerto Rico has a debt of $73 billion.
Social activist Dream Hampton claims Jay Z and Beyonce have quietly donated large sums of money to the Black Lives Matter movement as well. The money has gone, in part, to help bail out protesters arrested in Baltimore.
Following on the footsteps of presidential hopeful Jeb Bush, Sen. Marco Rubio defended President George W. Bush’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003. The Florida senator was asked on Fox News about the war but he struggled to give a concise answer, ultimately saying, “It was not a mistake.”
On Sunday Mexico's navy rescued two rafts crammed with Cuban migrants off the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula about 12 nautical miles north of Puerto Progreso.
Jeb Bush reaffirmed his stance against same-sex marriage and religious freedom during a recent interview on the Christian Broadcasting Network's "The Brody File."
A recent report by the Center for American Progress found Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) overwhelmingly discriminate against LGBT immigrants, despite recent attempts by the Obama administration to improve the treatment of LGBT people in the country and around the world.
More than 170 people have been arrested following a shootout between rival motorcycle gangs in Waco, Texas that left 9 people dead and 18 others in the hospital.
Labor leaders, workers and community activists vowed to defend new deferred action programs pushing for immigration reform a day ahead of the expansion of the program that would allow millions of workers to live and work legally in the United States.
Salma Hayek, Miranda Kerr, Charlize Theron and Julianne Moore shone brightly on the red carpet of this year's Cannes Film Festival. The lovely women just showed how color can make wonder in a formal event.
Research scientists published a report and a map in the May issue of the Preventing Chronic Disease journal that illustrates the "Most Distinctive Causes of Death" in the U.S.
While the Obama administration is famously fighting in court to use executive authority to shield millions of undocumented immigrants from being deported, in a lesser-known Texas immigration court case, the Department of Justice's lawyers have perplexingly argued that those same immigrants have no First Amendment rights.
Several Latin American governments have been challenging various approaches to the war on drugs, traditionally pushed by the United States. Countries like Colombia, Chile, and Bolivia are "just saying no" to -- or at least severely modifying -- long held U.S. anti-drug strategies employed in the region like prohibition, the eradication of narcotics-producing crops, and presenting a unified militarized front against growers.
Republican supporters of NSA surveillance are pushing to stop Congress from passing legislation that would curb the U.S. government from prying into the lives of its citizens.
A new report reveals that the backlog in the overburdened federal immigration courts has increased by 68 percent since 2014, bringing the number of pending cases to an all-time high of more than 445,000.
The FBI says it is looking into evidence that may indicate the windshield of an Amtrak train was hit with an object shortly before it derailed in Philadelphia earlier this week.
