Claims for unemployment benefits remained virtually flat last week, suggesting the U.S. jobs market remains strong even though economic growth has slowed.
Twenty-six states, led by Texas, are attempting to block President Obama's expanded Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Deferred Action for Parental Accountability.
The attorney of the widow of a Mexican migrant worker fatally shot by Pasco police wants the three officers involved in the case to be charged with murder.
The U.S. military has confirmed that it has lost contact with an unarmed Predator drone that had been flying over northwestern Syria and which forces loyal to dictator Bashar al-Assad claim to have shut down.
Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio would "absolutely" defy U.S. allies to revoke any Iranian nuclear deal he might inherit from Barack Obama, the Florida senator said on Tuesday. The next president "should not be bound" by a potential agreement the Obama administration strikes with Iran, he added.
A prosecutor said Tuesday that an Ohio woman accused of decapitating her 3-month-old baby had been ordered to stay away from her child, ABC News reports according to the Associated Press.
A suspicious letter sent to the White House has tentatively tested positive for cyanide, a deadly chemical that makes the body unable to use oxygen. The envelope was was received Monday at an off-site facility that screens mail addressed to the executive mansion.
Jurors in the Boston Marathon bombing trial were presented on Wednesday with the home-made bombs that bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his deceased brother allegedly threw at police who were searching for them in a manhunt.
The KDR chapter at Penn State is being investigated by local police, the university and the national fraternity after it was revealed the members had posted photos of half nude and nude women who were inebriated and unconscious.
Prosecutors brought in a Nike expert to say that former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez was wearing the same kind of shoes that left a footprint on the crime scene, My San Antonio reports according to Associated Press.
A man from central Missouri is facing federal charges for making several threats to shoot President Barack Obama with a high-powered rifle within the next few weeks.
Illinois Rep. Aaron Schock released his resignation statement on Tuesday after being accused of spending taxpayer funds on personal expenses, Washington Post reports.
Arguing that the issue of minimum wage should be left to the states or even up to the private sector, Jeb Bush informed a South Carolina audience on Tuesday that he opposes a federal minimum wage.
