Scientists from two universities and two federal agencies are trying to figure out what is causing a giant mass of methane over the Four Corners region. The hot spot, which is about half the size of Connecticut, was discovered based on the analysis of images a European satellite captured between 2003 and 2009.
Unlike Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, the two Republicans who so far have officialized their 2016 bid for the White House, Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton is unlikely to make a splashy announcement before a big crowd when she finally jumps into the race.
California's Democratic legislators along with immigration and Latino activisits announced a new packed of bills that aims to fill the immigration reform gap left by the federal government.
Tufts University, located in Massachusetts, has opted to advocate for undocumented students by offering them financial aid so they might fund their undergraduate education and find further success in their futures.
With U.S. President Barack Obama expected to arrive on Thursday night at the Summit of the Americas in Panama City for an informal talk with Cuban President Raúl Castro, reports have been circulating that the State Department is expected to recommend dropping Cuba from their State Sponsor of Terror List.
North Korea is able to hit the West Coast of the United States with a nuclear weapon mounted onto an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), USNI News reported based on a Pentagon intelligence assessment.
Despite his personal connections to the Latino community and his moderate stance on immigration - sometimes inconvenient within his own party - Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush is not nearly as popular among Hispanic voters as is Hillary Clinton, the presumed Democratic frontrunner.
As the Summit of the Americas approaches this week, Latin American leaders have by and large kept silent about charges of human rights abuses in Venezuela made by the United States.
Potential Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson is blasting the entire hip hop culture, claiming it plays a significant role in "destroying the African American community."
Second-term abortions, which are common throughout the United States, are now effectively illegal in Kansas after Gov. Sam Brownback on Tuesday signed a law prohibiting physicians from "knowingly dismembering a living unborn child and extracting such unborn child one piece at a time from the uterus."
After deliberating for roughly 11 hours over the last two days, the jury in the Boston Marathon bombing trial found Dzhokhar Tsarnaev guilty on all 30 counts charged against him. The 21-year-old convicted terrorist will now move on to the sentencing phase of his trial, where he will face the death penalty.
A former Iowa state lawmaker is set to appear in court Wednesday to face charges for allegedly sexually assaulting his 78-year-old wife while she was in a nursing home.
Jose de la Trinidad's family will receive more than $5 million from Los Angeles County. De la Trinidad was shot dead by two LAPD officers more than two years ago.
