Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is on a mission to kill a proposal that would ban armor-piercing "green tip" bullets. The Republican, widely considered a presidential hopeful in the 2016 White House race, urged his backers to flood the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives with public comments to get the agency to back off the initiative.
The Chicago mayoral election has heated up with the increased attention on candidate Jesus "Chuy" Garcia. New polling data has shown Garcia improving his potential victory odds against incumbent Rahm Emanuel.
Dignitaries and tens of thousands of people walked across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery civil rights march.
As people celebrate Women's Day on Sunday, the United Nations warned that the gender pay gap will not close in seven decades across the world if it continues to reduce at its current rate, The Guardian reports.
Daylight Saving Time dates back to World War I Most of the United States pushed their clocks forward by one hour for Daylight Savings Time on Sunday, and the usefulness of the practice has come into question.
As new evidence indicates some of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails may indeed be lost because she used a private account to discuss state business, as the Atlantic reports, a top Democrat called for more action.
If you clicked on Google's front page illustration today, you'd know that today is International Women's Day, a holiday that was first celebrated in 1908.
At the ninth annual commemorative ceremony to celebrate Ecuadorian politician Galo Plaza's New York birthplace, trailblazers Frida Kahlo, Gabriela Mistral and Julia de Burgos were honored, and so were eight other New York Latinas who are currently shaping the arts and culture.
Thousands gather in Selma to commemorate Bloody Sunday. Tens of thousands of Americans are gathering in Selma according to USA Today, Alabama this weekend to commemorate the 50th anniversary of an important moment in civil rights history.
President Barack Obama admits he suspects many of the racist practices a Department of Justice investigation found the Ferguson, Mo. police department to be guilty of are not just isolated incidents.
Although the Jodi Arias sentencing trial has ended, the drama in this never-ending saga has not stopped now that questions have been raised surrounding one of the jurors and her connection with the lead prosecutor in the case.
A crime lab scientist took the stand in the murder trial of former New England Patriots star tight end Aaron Hernandez on Friday, testifying that Hernandez's DNA was on a marijuana cigarette that was found at a 2013 murder scene.
