On Monday, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham became the ninth Republican to cast his bid in the 2016 presidential race. He faces stiff competition from the other Republican contenders.
Thanks in large part to Sen. Rand Paul, at midnight on Sunday, the U.S. Senate let the Patriot Act expire, removing key controversial surveillance authorities from the National Security Agency. So what does that mean, and what's next?
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a case concerning Arizona's ban on undocumented immigrants being granted bail. By doing so, the previous court's ruling overturning the ban stands.
The former Democratic governor of Maryland, Martin O'Malley, announced his candidacy for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination next year. Like Sen. Bernie Sanders before him, O'Malley is running to the left of top contender Hillary Clinton.
A new Washington Post study finds that police nationwide have already killed 385 people over the first five months of this year and of that total two-third of all the unarmed victims have been either blacks or Hispanics
Jadianna Larsen of Sacramento was reported missing by her mother's boyfriend on Thursday. The frantic search for a missing Northern California 6-year-old became a homicide investigation on Saturday when detectives discovered a child's burned body in a rural area, reports the Sacramento Bee.
A new study published late last week shows that immigrants are driving the startup economy in the U.S. -- along with showing a boom in immigrant Latino entrepreneurs starting new businesses.
One of the officers among the six charged in connection with the death of Freddie Gray was greeted with a hug when he arrived at the Baltimore police station for formal booking and at least three of them were taken into custody without so much as being handcuffed.
After announcing his bid in the 2016 presidential race, former New York Gov. George Pataki tried to appeal to young Hispanic voters by making an appearance on Fusion earlier this week.
Former GOP House Speaker Dennis Hastert was indicted by federal prosecutors on Thursday for allegedly concealing large cash withdrawals in order to keep "prior misconduct" secret, and then lying about it to the FBI.
Hours after state lawmakers approved the bill, North Carolina's governor on Thursday vetoed legislation that would allowed some court officials to refuse to perform same-sex marriages.
Federal prosecutors on Thursday announced the indictments of 15 Chinese nationals who they say cheated on college-entrance exam as part of an attempt to fraudulently obtain U.S. student visas.
The mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico's capital city, had a run-in with a New York cabbie on Wednesday when the driver refused to take her to her Bronx hotel.
For the second year in a row, the Scripps National Spelling Bee ended in a tie on Thursday as 13-year-old Vanya Shivashankar and 14-year-old Gokul Venkatachalam were crowned co-champions of the competition.
